Dangote Petroleum Refinery and Petrochemicals has chosen Honeywell Technologies to provide process technologies, licensing, engineering services, proprietary catalysts, equipment and digital solutions for its 700,000 barrel-per-day refinery in Kenya, claimed to become the world’s largest single-train refinery.

BASF is currently in the final stages of a feasibility study for the construction of an MDI production complex. The firm has already secured an industrial land parcel in Dahej, Gujarat, for the potential investment through its Indian subsidiary, BASF India Polyurethanes.

Evonik has plans to invest approximately 80-million-euros to expand its biotechnology capabilities and strengthen its contract manufacturing services for the company’s drug substance business.

Global pharmaceutical production depends on reliable supply — not least for manufacturing tools. To meet this demand, Fette Compacting is establishing a new production site in Pune, India, at the heart of one of the pharmaceutical industry’s fastest-growing markets.

The Middle East is known as the epicenter of fossil fuel production but the region aims to transform this image by developing revolutionary decarbonization projects in order to cut down carbon emissions and ultimately achieve the goal of net zero emissions.

Process engineers today no longer evaluate processes solely by cost, but by their long-term environmental impact. Learn how intelligent interfaces are changing chemistry and significantly reducing water use in dyeing processes.

In industrial rice processing, up to 20 percent of the grains break. This is partly due to the milling of the rice grains on their way from raw material to end product. Process engineers use particle simulations to understand this complex process and design it in such a way that losses are reduced.

The revised Hazardous Substances Ordinance raises the bar for closed systems in tablet production and promotes system integration. Containment is becoming the new standard for highly active ingredients. How Fette Compacting is dealing with the increasing requirements for active ingredient safety and process control.

Automation, up close: On November 18, around 100 exhibitors will present the latest in measurement, control and automation technology at firareus in Tarragona. Admission and technical presentations are free of charge.

While war disrupts the Gulf's energy arteries, from Hormuz to the Red Sea, the UAE is holding course on Operation 300bn, its plan to more than double industrial output from 36 billion dollars to 82 billion dollars by 2031.