How screw pumps strip out even highly viscous media – When emptying an oil or fuel tank (a process refferd to as stripping), quite often residual product of the highly viscous media is left behind. But does it have to be that way? Pumps with excellent intake at low NPSHr values can in fact completely empty tanks – even of crude oil and bitumen. And one technology in particular outperforms the rest...

Technology company The Linde Group has been awarded a long-term contract to supply Vietnamese steel company POSCO SS-Vina (PSSV) with industrial gases. The deal will see Linde construct the country's largest air separation unit at the Phu My industrial park in Ba Ria (Vung Tau province). The Group will be investing a total of around EUR 40 million in the project.

The materials technology and recycling group Umicore today officially opened its new production plant for emission control catalysts in Nowa Ruda, Poland (near Wrocław). The facility allows the company to meet the growing demand for automotive catalysts from its customers in Europe, a trend that is supported by tightening emission legislation in the European Union.

Euro Chem will be making use of Trammo’s dry and liquid fertilizer transport and storage assets to expand its fertilizer storage capacity in the United States. Euro Chem possesses a current storage capacity of about 500,000 metric tonnes in the US.

Primus Green Energy announced plans to develop and deliver a 160 metric tonnes per day methanol plant to an operating site in Alberta, Canada.

In many cases of vacuum distillation applications, where the desired vacuum level is not achieved because of system inefficiency, it ultimately affects the product quality. Installation of booster pumps, which is comparatively a cheap proposition, often helps in improving the vacuum level under such circumstances.

The 26,000 sq m gummy production plant will form a part of the ‘Centre of Excellence’ wherein the plant will produce up to 2.4 billion gummies per year. With this project, the company aims at attracting business from global markets.

Vibrating fork technology has shown its value and reliability in a range of critical level monitoring applications. This article explains how frequency monitoring functionality provided by Wireless-Hart vibrating fork switches can support an increased range of applications that help improve safety and process performance.

The degree of safety in explosion protection has risen constantly in the last 20 years–Initiated by the European Union at the beginning of the 1990s, the Atex guidelines shall now be transported to all regions of the world. With globally harmonised regulations, unified installation safety could be achieved worldwide.

Sometimes, beautiful products need dirty processes. Elaborate jewelry for example, might be treated with aggressive tarnision fluids. The consumer does not know — but the manufacturer should. Learn what to expect when pumping abrasive fluids and why solid body plastic AODD pumps might do the trick.