Salt tablets are used in various home care or chemical applications, like washing machines in households, hotels and restaurants or laundries. It can also be used for softening of drinking water, disinfecting swimming pools and also as nutritional supplements for animal nutrition.

Wacker Chemie has plans to increase its production capacity for silicone rubber due to its rising demand across the globe. The company intends to expand production of liquid silicone rubber as well as high consistency rubber with an investment of over 100 million euros.

Kubota Corporation has taken over Brabender Technologie, one of the largest gravimetric feeding system firms in the world. With this move, the company intends to further expand its business in the gravimetric and volumetric feeder market.

Fluid Components International’s (FCI) ST100A Series Thermal Flow Meters offer accurate and reliable direct mass flow measurement of mixed and dirty gases. It does not require additional sensors or flow calculating devices and virtually also eliminates wear, breakage and maintenance.

Under a MOU signed between Air Liquide and Lhoist, both the companies will work together to decarbonize Lhoist’s lime production plant in France with the use of Air Liquide’s carbon capture technology. With this project, the company aims to reduce more than 600,000 tons of CO2 emissions annually.

Grab sampling is an important function in industrial fluid systems, but a few common problems can negatively impact efficiency, representativeness, and operator safety.

Bauer Gear Motor has partnered with Allweiler to fit highly efficient permanent magnet synchronous motors with an aim to reduce the energy usage of eccentric screw pumps installed at the Stendal wastewater treatment plant in Germany.

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?

In a joint project, the consortium including mk2 Biotechnologies, Wacker and the Technical University of Munich have developed a scalable and cost-efficient process for the production of antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) based on microbial fermentation.

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.