Air Liquide will invest around 350 Crores Rupees (40 million euros) in a new Air Separation Unit (ASU) dedicated to Industrial Merchant activities in Kosi, in the state of Uttar Pradesh, Northern India. This unit will have a production capacity of 350 tonnes per day, with a maximum of 300 tonnes of oxygen. Air Liquide India will build, own and operate this ASU, which is planned to start operating by the end of 2023.

The 2022 edition of Ipack-Ima is just around the corner. Taking place in Milan from May 3–6, the event marks the return of exhibitors and visitors, serving as a meeting point for demand and supply of processing technologies, packaging solutions and materials. Valerio Soli, President of Ipack Ima, tells us about the many meanings of an exhibition that brings together the various stakeholders in a complex production chain.

Sumitomo Chemical has decided to build additional production lines for its liquid crystal polymer Sumikasuper at its plant in Ehime, Japan. The liquid crystal polymer will be produced at Sumitomo Chemical’s Ehime plant and at the Harima plant of its subsidiary Taoka Chemical in Japan. This expansion will increase the group’s production capacity by about 30 percent. The new production lines are scheduled for completion in summer 2023.

Under a collaboration agreement signed between Plug Power, Atlas Copco and Fives, new hydrogen liquefaction plants will be developed in the USA which will also make use of the cryogenic process technology to reduce the cost of liquified hydrogen by 25 %.

The FCI family of thermal flow meters are economical and easy-to-install, versatile solutions to measure the flow rate and totalized flow of air and natural gas. They are direct mass flow measuring, wide range 100:1 turndown instruments, all with precision calibration in natural gas flowing at actual installation temperature and pressure conditions.

Tüpras has selected Honeywell UOP’s Isoalky technology to produce superior quality alkylate at its refineries in Turkey. With this move, the company aims to produce cleaner gasoline in line with its ambition of becoming carbon neutral by 2050.

Ploughshare mixers from Lödige Process Technology’s KM and FKM series assist the food industry to mix iodized and fluorized table salts as well as other salty and spicy basic ingredients. The KM and FKM series can be used to mix continuously or in batch mode respectively.

Mouvex has recently introduced its H-Flo Series and G-Flo Series eccentric disc pumps for the North American market. The pumps can handle highly viscous fluids up to 10,000 cP and soft particles up to 20 mm, it also offers flow rates up to 70 m3/h with a maximum output pressure of 10 bar.

The Pepperl+Fuchs brand Ecom Instruments continues the success story of its 8-inch Tab-Ex series with the intrinsically safe Tab-Ex 03 tablet in the DZ2 (for Zone 2/22 & Division 2) and D2 (for Division 2) variants.

BP has acquired a stake in Green Biofuels which offers a low emission advanced hydrogenated vegetable oil fuel. This sustainable fuel can be used as a direct replacement for diesel and the acquisition will expand BP’s global biofuels portfolio and its lower carbon solutions.