With an action plan to promote ‘green petrochemical clusters’, the Chinese southern province of Guangdong wants to encourage further growth in the industry. The ambitious plans are valid up to 2025, i.e. parallel to the People's Republic's new five-year plan, which is currently being tied up in the corridors of power in Beijing. What is the industry’s future in the region?

French gases company Air Liquide and EZZ Steel, one of the leading steel producers in the Middle East and Africa, have signed a new long term agreement for the supply of industrial gases to EZZ’s new plant in Ain Sokhna, East of Cairo, Egypt.

Industrial gases company Air Products announced that its subsidiary Air Products San Fu recently brought two new air separation units onstream. The project is part of the long-term agreements to provide ultra-high purity industrial gases to one of the world’s largest semiconductor manufacturers in Asia.

Under the terms of the agreement, Air Products will acquire Air Liquide Emirates for Industrial Gases and Orca Industrial Gases from Air Liquide as well as take over a majority share in Bahrain’s Middle East Carbon Dioxide, a joint venture firm between Air Liquide and Almo Holdings.

A time and space-saving combination of process steps in one mixing reactor — In industrial production processes, chemical reactions are generally part of a multi-stage process chain comprising both the synthesis process itself and a number of processing steps before and after. The vacuum mixing reactors of Lödige Process Technology make it possible to perform several of these steps one after the other in the same machine.

Under a long-term agreement signed between both the parties, Linde will supply liquid oxygen and nitrogen from its Mims air separation plant, which is currently under expansion, to the leading space launch company in Florida.

Gather has resolutely continued the further development of its pump range with the 3 series. The new chemical process pump achieves flow rates of up to 4,000 l/h (with pressure differences of up to 14 bar).

The new facility is expected to initially convert up to one million tons of municipal solid waste annually, later it can be expanded up to four million tons of waste, to produce 67,000 tons of green hydrogen and one million tons of CO₂.

Whether pH, dissolved oxygen, conductivity, viable cell density or redox, while analog sensors have been the product of choice in many areas and still are, modern intelligent sensors offer a range of advantages.

The new zero liquid discharge plant has been inaugurated by Evonik Catalysts at its facility in Dombivli, India. The plant aims to improve the treatment of process water and was developed in association with Remondis.