Regardless of whether for distillation, filtration, drying or clarification — without separation technology, nothing goes. After all, most raw ingredients and products of chemical reactions are mixtures of substances that need to be separated for further processing. So it is good to have a partner who is a single provider capable of supplying everything from mechanical separation systems to exhaust air purification.

What do tile adhesive, medication in the form of tablets and yogurt have in common? With all of these products, a specific formula needs to be followed to the letter to make sure the required quality can be guaranteed. To do this, the individual raw ingredients not only need to be safely stored, conveyed and processed. Ultimately, they also need to be added with precision to the production process. This is sometimes a tricky challenge — and one that AZO has been living up to for nearly 70 years. Starting with the development of a cyclone screening machine, the creative engineers from Osterburken/Germany are responsible for numerous innovations in the field of bulk materials handling. Today, the AZO Group automates raw materials handling in the food, pharmaceuticals and chemicals sectors all around the world.

A matter of ideas or: How grinding becomes as easy as 1, 2, 3 — Sometimes, situations require us to reinvent the wheel. Taking another perspective, gaining new insights from an external user’s perspective, or getting to the bottom of an issue, can help us to find an original solution with an existing product.

A new isolator for sterile filling combines cleaning, sterilizing, filling & closing, monitoring and precision-counting magazining functions in one.

Shortly after acquiring new companies in America, industrial gases specialist Messer is investing in the construction of a new CO2 plant in Keyes, California. The plant produces 450 tonnes of carbon dioxide per day and supplies companies in Northern California and the surrounding areas.

A major fire at a refinery near Milan, Italy, has caused concerns about the safety of the country’s oil industry. The site at Sannazzaro De’ Burgundi (Pavia) already saw two blazes in summer 2016.

Ideal for municipal sewage treatment and stormwater or industrial organic or inorganic wastewater.

Testing safety and explosion protection technologies for the Chinese market: Chilworth Technology, a Dekra subsidiary, has opened its first test laboratory for process safety services in Shanghai.

For the first time in a lithium extraction project, Australia leaves all process steps from ore mining and separation to refining in the country. In this context, Gea has received an order from Albemarle to supply screening and pusher centrifuges, peeler centrifuges and decanter centrifuge plants for the treatment of lithium derivatives in various process stages.

Evaluating (and minimizing) water hammer in a liquid sampling system — A common yet often unidentified problem poses a significant threat to any liquid sampling system. It is called water hammer, and it may be lurking in a system, ready to wreak havoc on fluid system components. How to mitigate water hammer?