Literature about coating soft gelatine capsules with aqueous, polymeric solutions or dispersions is scarce, and this process poses a tough challenge due to the difficulties in application, formation and adhesion of the film solution to the substratum, particularly in the first phase. High heat efficiency equipment, a correct equilibrium of the process variables and an adequate composition of the polymeric dispersion are the basic requirements to obtain a high-quality finished product.

China wants to reduce its ‘import dependence’ on engineering plastics. This is stated in the new 14th five-year plan of the communist leadership in Beijing, which has its eye on the strategic value of these special chemicals used across a number of domestic industries. Recently, concrete targets for ‘self-sufficiency’ in these materials were published, reports the chemical newspaper Zhongguo Huagong Xinxi Zhoukan.

Only a fraction of the material that could be turned into new plastic is currently recycled. Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden have now demonstrated how the carbon atoms in mixed waste can replace all fossil raw materials in the production of new plastic.

Lamot Valve & Arrestor’s latest product – the Model L11E Weight-Loaded Pressure Relief Valve offers an option to incorporate calibrated weights which helps industry players to use the valve across a wide range of applications.

Personalized medicine, automation, sustainability: How the pharmaceutical industry is dealing with the upheaval and what it means for the supplier industry.

New York City has sued oil majors Exxon Mobil, Shell, BP and the lobby group – American Petroleum Institute for misleading advertising and deceptive business practices. The corporations systematically misrepresented their role in climate pollution through PR campaigns, Mayor of New York city Bill de Blasio announced recently.

The chemistry equipment firm Asynt has introduced a new waterless condenser – Condensyn Maxi which proves beneficial for large-scale synthetic chemical reactions in the laboratory. It also assists scientists to scale up their experiments from small benchtop synthesis to large volume jacketed reactor vessels.

Power-to-X is on everyone’s lips: as energy storage, alternatives to battery-electric mobility or basic raw materials for industrial processes, the conversion of green electricity into material form is a cornerstone of all defossilization strategies. But how realistic is the vision of fuel from the socket? A test plant in Lower Bavaria, Germany, shows that the necessary technologies have long been in the starting blocks.

Emerson’s Sergio Diaz, product marketing manager for safety systems, and Alexandre Peixoto, product marketing manager for cybersecurity, explain what factors need to be considered in creating defendable safety systems.

The Module Type Package (MTP) provides a modern solution to modularize a plant in the domain of process industries. To achieve this, MTP defines an interface for the simple orchestration and connection of modules to a higher-level control system. With TwinCAT MTP, Beckhoff enables MTP project planning and automatic code generation. This solution opens up an integrated and efficient way to develop modules in the universal TwinCAT engineering environment.