With an aim to strengthen Air Liquide’s presence in the Malaysian market, the company has taken over the industrial gas major, Southern Industrial Gases. The move is expected to double Air Liquide’s packaged gases filling capacity in the Southeast Asian country.

Dayuewan (Zhuhai) Petrochemical Co. will utilise a range of technologies from Honeywell for upgrading heavy fuel oil into higher value petrochemical products at its Guangdong complex in China. Honeywell is also responsible for basic engineering, technology licensing as well technical and start-up services for Dayuewan’s project.

The SC-B X-ray scanner by Wipotec is the ideal entry point for quality X-ray inspection of incoming raw material. Foreign body detection at the beginning of the production process leads to optimisation of the line efficiency by reducing product losses and downtimes.

The ‘Hygreen Provence’ project will be developed via this deal which aims to produce, store and distribute green hydrogen. The project will make it possible to produce 1,300 GWh of solar electricity and renewable hydrogen on an industrial scale.

Additional signal circuits are required when it comes to expanding capacity in processing facilities with hazardous areas of food and beverage industries, like distilleries. These signal circuits depend on measured variables from the explosion-hazardous area being transferred to the control panel and, conversely, signals from the control system being transferred to actuators in the field. Hardware intervention at interface level can have an impact on plant availability. The task is always to keep this impact at the lowest possible level.

To support the expansion of its plants producing low density polyethylene (LDPE) and other petrochemicals, Qatar Petrochemical Company (QAPCO) chose a comprehensive safety solution. The Hima solution supports emergency shutdown (ESD), fire & gas (F&G) and furnace control as well as seawater cooling applications.

LANXESS is progressing according to plan with the construction of its world-scale EPDM (ethylene propylene diene monomer) plant in Changzhou (Jiangsu Province), China. The German specialty chemicals company is investing EUR 235 million in the plant - the largest investment the company has made in China to date. Some 45 percent of the investment total will be spent by the end of 2013.

Taghleef Industries had participated at the recently held Fach Pack show which is one of the leading trade fairs in Europe for packaging. The firm displayed its Extendo range at the event which is the global leading portfolio for brand owners and retailers who choose to protect their food in mono-material, chlorine-free and recyclable solutions.

Reliance Industries plans to invest $ 9.8 billion in a crude-oil-to-chemicals (COTC) complex at the company's Jamnagar site in India, Chemical Week reports.

Ineos has opened the new plant in Rosignano, Italy and aims to produce new plastics from plastic waste. The new facility is part of the company’s global 110-million-dollar research and development programme which supports Ineos’ customers worldwide.