Located in southern Russia, the Group’s 7.5 million dollar facility is expected to produce a capacity of 32,000 tonnes per year. The superior quality carbon dioxide will also be supplied to Coca-Cola systems.

The perfect man/machine relationship is the effective management of scarce resources. This presents a daily challenge for plant manufacturers and producers. In the area of raw material handling, UWT makes an important contribution.

Lanxess inaugurates a new production line at its largest site in Leverkusen for the production of the Lewatit brand of weak acid cation (WAC) exchange resins, as well as bringing a new food-grade filling and packing system into operation. The crisis ridded spacility chemicals company had invested some € 10 million in the expansion process ince April 2013.

Thanks to its linear design Marchesini’s new linear intermittent-motion vial filler/capper ML 643 is an ergonomic machine, which is easy to clean and service, plus operators have a complete view of each processing phase of the cycle, from filling through to vial capping/crimping, the company says.

Linde Malaysia, a subsidiary of The Linde Group, has established a joint venture company with Petronas Gas Berhad (PGB) to build a state-of-the-art industrial air gas facility.

American PPG Industries and Asian Paints (APL) of India recently received an approval from the Indian authorities to expand their coatings joint venture (JV) in India. Now the two companies plan to market protective paints, powders and coatings for Indian industrial liquid, marine, consumer packaging and transportation customers.

In the building material producing and processing industry, various powdery products for a variety of purposes are packed into flexible packaging, in small to large quantities. Depending on the needs and requirements of the end-consumer, filling and storing the filled packages is done using various types of packaging materials. The most frequent and versatile packaging for powder products is the valve sack made of paper.

GEA builds a new production plant for home and personal care products in Bosnia Herzegovinia for Violeta. The new facility shall provide a flexible and fully automatic, multi-purpose liquid processing infrastructure, allowing Violeta to create new opportunities in a market that has, to date, been dominated by foreign imports...

Tubular drag cable conveyors are somewhat unconventional alternative to steel belts – not speedy or particularly high-volume. However, this extremely flexible conveyor system has the big advantage that it doesn't cause much breakage, even if very friable materials are conveyed. In addition, this type of conveyor can feed and pick up materials from virtually any place within a facility.

Starting from raw material transfer through closed systems, the production concept combines recipe management with minimal operator intervention, automated cleaning to avoid cross-contamination, and in-process control systems to ensure consistent product quality.