Fluidics can do so much more — certainly for companies who are happy to think outside of the box — In almost every process, liquid or gaseous media must be measured, controlled and regulated. But are we using the full potential offered by valves, flowmeters and their like? Even after 70 years, the fluidics specialists from Bürkert are nowhere near the end of what they can do.

The food vs. fuel debate has cast a dark shadow over the potentials of biofuels - now second generation processes aim to untap to huge heaps of biogenic residues that forestry and agriculture produce. One of them, the Bioliq process of KIT and Air Liquide, announces anew milestone; The start up of the second stage of its pilot plant...

Solutions competence for fluid engineering challenges — The company Bürkert Fluid Control Systems has kept media, processes and ideas flowing for over 70 years. How do they do that? By never losing sight of the requirements of plant operators and starting to find new approaches where others run out of ideas.

Batteries are the key technology for the electromobility of the future. Over the next five years, BASF will be investing a three-digit million euro sum in researching, developing and the production of battery materials. Part of the investment is being channeled into the construction of a production plant for advanced cathode materials.

A record figure of 9633 trade visitors and 311 exhibitors met for the seventh edition of Ifat India 2019. The show ended on October 18, 2019 at the Bombay Exhibition Centre (BEC) in Mumbai. At the top of the agenda of the environmental technology fair was the question of how technology and innovation can lead the change towards achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

Air-operated double-diaphragm (AODD) pumps are well suited for for the loading, unloading and transfer of resins, solvents and additives in Paint & Coatings manufacturing applications. Pumps specialist Wilden now launches the Advanced Series Metal AODD pumps, that can generate up to 20.7 bar of pressure (300 psi).

Fluid Components International (FCI) has launched the new ST100 series of continuous thermal mass flow meters. The devices are able to measure gas mass flow rates, total flow, temperature and pressure depending on the model family.

With an aim to strengthen Air Liquide’s presence in the Malaysian market, the company has taken over the industrial gas major, Southern Industrial Gases. The move is expected to double Air Liquide’s packaged gases filling capacity in the Southeast Asian country.

The collaboration between Dow and Evonik aims to bring the unique technology to market maturity. For this purpose, the firms have also planned to build a pilot plant in Hanau, Germany which is expected to be constructed by 2020.

The automatically cleanable ‘Easy Clean flow’ magnet from Goudsmit Magnetics of Waalre recently underwent a redesign. This magnetic separator removes metal particles and weakly magnetic stainless steel particles from powders as fine as 30 µm in the food, chemical, ceramic and plastic industries.