Gerhard Schubert will be presenting a wide range of packaging solutions at the upcoming trade fair of interpack 2023. Some of its most recent innovations include cobots for the rapid feeding of different packaging components on a line, an extremely compact filling machine for cosmetic products and an entirely new, efficient, resource-saving feeding system for carton blanks.

PROCESS Worldwide brings to you the ‘Top 10 plant engineering projects of February 2023’ from all over the world. Right from Europe’s most sustainable cracker securing a funding of 3.5 billion euros to Exxonmobil investing 2-billion-dollars for expanding its Baytown chemical plant in the US, find out all the projects making headlines here.

Bilfinger has been selected by The Lapwing Estate to develop a pilot plant. The new unit will be a part of the ‘reverse coal process’ developed by The Lapwing Estate. The process aims to convert CO2 emissions back into solid carbon while producing food with measurable positive environmental and social impact.

Exxonmobil has commenced operations at a large-scale advanced recycling facility in Baytown, Texas, USA. The unit has the capacity to process more than 80 million pounds of plastic waste annually and will make use of proprietary technology to break down hard-to recycle plastics in order to produce new plastic products.

KBR in partnership with Swedish Biofuels has introduced a sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) technology which can process ethanol as well as convert carbon dioxide and synthesis gas to produce SAF.

Chemical, pharmaceutical and food producers, colleges and universities all over the world use them: Wet-milling technology has been revolutionized by WAB with the development of its horizontal agitator bead mills. At this year’s Achema, the resourceful Swiss company was presenting the latest generation of its Dyno-Mill UBM (Universal Bead Mill).

GEA will be showcasing a wide range of solutions at the Interpack show in Germany. Some of the innovations to be exhibited at the fair include the Optirobot 6000 and the firm’s new solution – the Optibuffer.

KBR’s technology has been selected for Enaex’s Hyex green ammonia project in Chile. The project is expected to produce green ammonia by making use of renewable energy from photovoltaic power plants.

With the growing demand for filters across the globe, Metso Outotec has plans to expand its filter assembly plant in Suzhou, China. The expansion will enable the firm to double its local capacity as well as provide additional space for the assembly of flotation drive mechanisms and mill reline equipment.

With increasing demand from the mobility industry, Linde has plans to expand its green hydrogen production capacity in Ontario, California, USA. For this, the company intends to develop and operate several planned five-megawatt PEM electrolyzers.