Along with tablets, capsules remain the most important form of administration in the pharmaceutical and nutrition sectors. They offer manufacturers and patients numerous advantages. During the process of capsule filling, efficiency potentials often go unfulfilled in production. One lever for this is the capsule filling machines in the FEC series combined with the know-how offered by experts at Fette Compacting.

Predictive maintenance has become all the more important in today’s Industry 4.0 world to ensure efficient working processes along with reduced downtime as well as costs.

Svante along with the University of Calgary have developed a scalable metal-organic framework (MOF) sorbent – Calgary Framework 20 (CALF-20) that captures CO2 with high capacity and at a low cost by making use of rapid solid adsorption and low temperature steam.

Ametek STC’s M&G line of diaphragm seals helps companies to use instruments to test and measure pressure at high temperatures by providing a blockage between the heated pressure source and the advanced instrumentation.

To support the growth of electronics and renewable energy customers at the Sama Jaya High Tech Park in Kuching, Malaysia, Linde has started up a new air separation unit (ASU) which will supply high purity nitrogen to multiple customers in the region. The new plant will make use of Linde’s latest technology which provides 30 % better power efficiency and can reduce GHG emissions by more than 6,000 tons per year.

Tatneft and KazMunayGas have entered into a joint venture to set up a new production site in the Atyrau region of Kazakhstan. The new facility, estimated to cost about 1 billion dollars, will produce up to 180 thousand tons of butadiene and butadiene rubbers annually.

Merck and Siemens have plans to develop solutions that make machine-to-machine (M2M) connected industrial value chains trustworthy. The solution will help customers to rely on a single-source-of-truth between production and laboratory quality control, thus, enhancing quality, transparency and traceability of products along value chains as well as enabling new disruptive business models.

BASF has plans to establish a separate mobile emissions catalysts business due to the massive shift in the automotive industry towards the sustainable electromobility market. The new business is expected to prepare for the changes in the internal combustion engine market. Also, the company’s massive investment in battery materials and recycling will further strengthen this segment.

Kemira has recently increased its annual production of ferric based water treatment chemicals by more than 100.000 tons at Goole, UK. The company had also increased its production of aluminum-based water treatment chemicals by 30.000 tons at Ellesmere Port, UK earlier this year. With this move, the firm intends to strengthen its position in the UK market.

Plug Power has been chosen by Fertiglobe’s green hydrogen consortium to deliver a world-scale 100 MW electrolyzer in Egypt. Claimed to become one of the largest ‘independently owned’ facility in the world, the electrolyzer will produce up to 90,000 tons of green hydrogen as feedstock for green ammonia production at EBIC in Egypt.