Petrofac has won a two year contract with Neo Energy and under the terms of the agreement, Petrofac will provide Well Management and Well Operator support for 25 production wells.

DSM intends to replace its ammonium sulfate plant in Geleen/The Netherlands. Van Beek will provide 17 screw conveyor systems for the new plant.

A polycarbonate facility operated by Sabic in Cartagena, Spain, is set to become the world’s first large-scale chemical production site to be run entirely on renewable power, following the signing of a major agreement.

Under his new role, Imtiaz Mahtab will be in charge of managing and growing Air Products’ industrial gases operations and partnerships in the Middle East region. He has also been appointed as Chief Executive Officer of Air Products Qudra.

Atos and Siemens are working together with the pharmaceutical industry to improve production with an innovative solution based on a digital replica of the pharma production process. Currently being tested in the pharmaceutical industry, this “Process Digital Twin” for pharma manufacturing – powered by IoT, AI and Advanced Analytics – is designed to provide improved efficiency and flexibility in the manufacturing of pharmaceutical products.

Linde has leveraged its technology in order to sign a new long-term contract with India’s largest refiner, Indian Oil Corporation Ltd (IOCL). Under the agreement, Praxair India, a subsidiary of Linde, will construct an air separation unit on BOO basis and supply oxygen and nitrogen to IOCL’s Paradip refinery in Orissa.

Ika's CMX 2000 is an inline mixer for fast, homogeneous incorporation of powders into liquids. The circulation of the liquid creates a strong vacuum in the machine, which sucks in the solid material. Thus, even powders that are difficult to wet can be incorporated lump-free into a liquid phase.

The catalytic off-gas treatment is for Shandong Qilu Plasticizers’ phthalic anhydride plant in China. Clariant’s Envicat VOC catalyst is capable of eliminating up to 99 % of VOCs and carbon monoxide.

Eta Bio, one of the largest agricultural businesses in Bulgaria, will utilise the technology in its new full-scale commercial plant for the production of cellulosic ethanol in the region. The license agreement is Clariant’s fourth deal for the sunliquid technology.

Solvay wants to expand its capacity of specialty polymers once again and builds a new plant in the USA to produce polyether etherketone. In India is the expansion of the production capacity already in progress.