With its 750 XTR Series of products since 2014, Wago offers a solution that broadens the range of use for machines and systems with regard to environmental conditions and external interference factors, while providing the highest degree of flexibility. Now, Wago has defined a new dimension of use with the latest development for the 750 XTR Series.

 — In recent years, formulations based on pellets have been the trend. New technologies make it possible to circumvent property rights for active ingredients and are therefore very popular with pharmaceutical customers. But which technologies are the most important?

A contract manufacturer archives more flexibility implementing a flexible and mobile Fillingssystem: For the first time, Bosch implemented a movable peristaltic pump filling system with Prevas in China. This allows the customer, a leading pharmaceutical contract developing and manufacturing service provider, to get Fast-track-market-release. Thanks to the new design, the company is able to switch between the existing piston pump filling station and the new peristaltic pump filling system.

The carbon capture and storage project, Northern Lights is expected to be the maiden storage project site across the globe to receive CO2 from industrial sources located in different European countries.

Fata, a division of Italian Finmeccanica, was awarded a US $300 million contract for an turnkey EPC (Engineering, Procurement and Construction) Contract for an aluminium rolling plant at Sohar, Oman.

Air Liquide has entered into an agreement with Methanex Corporation to supply oxygen, nitrogen and utilities to its upcoming methanol plant expansion project in Louisiana. With an aim to serve Methanex and its other customers in Geismar and Baton Rouge, the company has plans to make the heavy investment in the region.

Air Liquide Engineering & Construction has been selected to supply two hydrogen production steam methane reformer (SMR) units to Dangote Group, the largest manufacturing conglomerate in West Africa.

Sartorius Stedim Biotech, a leading global supplier of the biopharmaceutical industry, is introducing a brand-new, scalable range of single-use bags.

Kemira, a global chemicals company serving customers in water-intensive industries, announced the opening of its new AKD emulsion and cationic rosin production lines at its production site in Nanjing, Jiangsu province in China.

Double ball-valve dry disconnects set new standard in chemical handling — Operators that handle hazardous liquids or toxic chemicals have high demands for loading systems, hoses, pipes and couplings. But how to design such a system? Are traditional bayonet-and-plunger styles still the go-to-solution for chemicals or has the time of new coupling technology finally come?