Chemours inaugurated its new titanium dioxide (TiO2) production line at its Altamira plant in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas.

Continuing the company’s strategy to add production facilities close to growing demand, Celanese begins production in its newest vinyl acetate ethylene (VAE) production unit.

Screen classifying cutters master challenging product — Calcium chloride is really difficult to process. This very hygroscopic salt dissolves exothermic in water and its abrasive properties require robust process equipment. An American calcium chloride supplier has found a save and reliable process solution.

From landfills to the Pacific Garbage Patch: Plastic waste is a major environmental and public health problem. India alone consumes 11 million tonnes of plastic per year out of which 5.6 million tonnes turns into waste. Now, a new technology from India could help to convert these waste amounts of waste into valueable high-indemand fuels virtually without causing any secondary pollution in the process...

Plant operator Odfjell has announced a shutdown of one of Europe's largest independent storage terminals for petrochemicals and hazardous goods in Rotterdam port for safety reasons. The terminal will only cater process industries with risk of plant shutdowns during this period, Odfjell speakers stated.

BP Ventures has invested $ 5 million in Belmont Technology’s solution to further expand the artificial intelligence (AI) and digital capabilities in its upstream business. The investment is to support the ongoing work exploring opportunities to apply machine learning and cognitive computing in its global oil and gas business.

Almatec has worked over its E-Series plastic air-operated double-diaphragm (AODD) pumps: Now the sturdy workhorses offer full containment for the transferring of dangerous acids across the chemical supply chain...

The MMA two project comprises 13 partners from six different countries representing all stages of the PMMA value chain, aims to develop a new and innovative process to recycle post-industrial and end-of-life PMMA waste into second generation MMA (methyl methacrylate) monomer. As a partner in this European project, Arkema's Scientific Director Jean-Luc Dubois chairs the project's Advisory Committee.

Gea supplied their Norwegian customer Borregaard with the supply of a turnkey plant for the spray drying of lignosulfonate in the double-digit million range. The solution also includes a new silo for feeding stored powder materials into the plant's packaging system and a large wet scrubber for dedusting. The entire process solution will be installed at the Norwegian site in Sarpsborg and commissioning is scheduled for the middle of 2019.

Although PLC and DCS are both used in the automation systems, there were completely different purposes behind their creation, and up to a certain time their functionalities were quite different. Today, advanced automation solutions can even over-perform both of them. Recently, in an exclusive discussion with PROCESS India team, A. Bhaduri, General Manager-Process Solutions, Rockwell Automation (India), explained the origin, evolution, convergence and next level of these two technologies. An excerpt...