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.

The chemical industry could be the first to feel the immediate impact of Britain’s possible vote on exiting the EU: recent studies show that the branch could be affected by a seven billion pounds loss in exports, making it the hardest hit of all British industries…

Technip completes acquisition of Hummingbird technology from BP Chemicals Limited, a second generation ethanol to ethylene technology. The technology is lower cost and simpler compared to first generation technologies.

BOC India, a member of The Linde Group, has announced the commissioning of its Helium transfill station at Taloja. The plant will increase BOC India’s market share in Helium significantly and is expected to supplement BOC India's current Specialty gases portfolio.

The growing global plastics sustainability movement is one of the biggest potential disruptors for the plastics industry and is putting future plastics resin demand and billions of dollars of industry investments at risk, IHS Markit says.

After successfully concluding the FEED study in June 2018, Borealis has taken the final investment decision for a new, world-scale propane dehydrogenation (PDH) plant. The facility with a capacity of 750,000 tonnes per year will be located at the existing production site in Kallo (Antwerp), Belgium. The plant is scheduled to start up in the first half of 2022.

It starts with a bang: Covestro has launched the next level of its flagship project 'Dream Production'. The materials specialist launched a brand-new production site in Dormagen/Germany, which produces polyols for plastic foams by using CO2 as a feedstock. The secret behind this revolutionary process is a special catalysts that helps to save around 20% of common crude based feedstock...

Blackmer has announced the availability of the XLW4A Model Sliding Vane Pump. This 4-inch pump is an extension of Blackmer’s XLW Series Sliding Vane Pump line, which was introduced in 1978.

The functions and properties of glass are becoming increasingly diverse and smarter. The demands placed on glass production systems are also increasing accordingly. This not least includes vacuum technology, which forms a central component in the production and processing of glass products. In addition, vacuum lifters guarantee the safe internal transport of heavy and sensitive glass parts. Atlas Copco will be presenting its new variable speed drive vacuum pump series GHS 3800-5400 VSD+ at the Glasstec in Düsseldorf precisely for such applications with a high vacuum requirement.

Individual valves or valve terminals to control pneumatically-automated process valves? What are technical and economic advantages of these two methods? How to judge the influences with regard to commissioning? Answering this questions can result in more than 40 percent cost savings.