Ensuring the design team and stakeholders work together is crucial at the start on any large capital project. Collaboration is essential when it comes to working with many different groups, partners, subcontractors, and inter-departmental personnel, as they work with multiple information sources and make numerous design changes as part of the review process. Failure in any of these work processes can result in costly mistakes once handover is complete as the project moves into construction – and even more so as it moves into operations.

For many years, industrial gases were bought in China from Linde and its competitors Air Products and Air Liquide without thinking much of it. But now Linde & Co. and their market power are suddenly seen as a problem in the People's Republic.

Pumping oleum is challenging enough — add a submersion depth of 11 meters, and things get really interesting. But a magnetically coupled sealless pump is up to the challenge, providing safe and reliable handling of hazardous liquids.

The chemical industry is leading the hydrogen race — no wonder that the light gas is also capturing the imagination at Achema. The mysterious green molecule of endless possibilities plays a decisive role at the leading trade fair for chemistry, the event organizers at Dechema believe.

Digital twins ensure competitiveness. This is the experience of numerous users in the process industry who are working with a solution developed by Siemens and Bentley Systems. Bart Moors from Siemens and Alistair Stubbs from Bentley Systems describe what makes this platform unique and, furthermore, how they can help customers to advance their digital maturity.

Air-Operated Double-Diaphragm (AODD) pumps can be used for numerous applications and their unique characteristics such as simple start-up, self-priming capability, overload-proof, etc make them all the more attractive amongst industry players.

H.F. Meyer Maschinenbau, Domino Deutschland and Heuft Systemtechnik have jointly developed a new compact solution for beverage can fillers. The solution is capable of resource-saving, enables fault-free high-speed filling process of beverage can lines which have limited space.

Fieldcomm Group has recently announced the availability of test and registration services for Ethernet-APL infrastructure products. In this background, Pepperl+Fuchs’ Rail Field Switches are the first Ethernet-APL products to achieve registration.

Two coater series in comparison, one highly specialised, the other for standard applications  - With coaters from the LC and LC light series, Lödige Process Technology offers two different machine concepts for the film coating of tablets. Pharmaceutical companies therefore have a choice when looking for the optimum task-specific solution. Systems can thus be realized that precisely meet the respective requirements.

The Antares Vision Group showcased a comprehensive ecosystem of solutions and technologies: inspection systems and machines, solutions for track and trace for transparency of supply chains and products and smart data management of products and processes to guarantee safety, efficiency and sustainability for the pharma sector.