LG Chem, Korea’s leading manufacturer of advanced batteries, announced that it would start construction of an Electric Vehicle (EV) battery plant in Wrocław, Poland.

This article describes how the existing deposition and growth of microorganisms-biofouling problem in the cooling loop of a refinery in Dubai and prevented it from further occurrence could be solved by Merus.

With a ten percent increase of it's Baytown Syngas facility, Oxea strengthens its production capacity for oxo-intermediates and oxo-derivatives.

The port of Khalifa and the adjacent Kizad industrial zone are among the biggest infrastructural mega-projects in Abu Dhabi to date. The declared objective is to turn the region into one of the world’s biggest industrial areas. The hub is set to become increasingly interesting for German companies too.

Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) has a proven track record as a software simulation tool to support detail equipment design and development of entire systems. The pharmaceutical industry is now discovering the advantages of this approach.

Inovyn announced the completion of its new large scale potassium hydroxide (KOH) production facility at its Antwerp/Lillo Site (Belgium).The first production run of membrane quality KOH for supply to customers took place during the first week of October, following successful start-up of the facility.

The Dow Chemical Company and K2 Pure Solutions (K2 Pure) have celebrated the successful start-up of a new chlor-alkali plant at Dow’s Pittsburg, California site. The new state-of-the-art manufacturing facility will produce bleach to serve municipal water treatment facilities in Northern California. In addition, the plant will supply Dow’s Pittsburg operations with chlorine for the manufacture of crop protection products and other materials.

Malvern's Mastersizer 3000 measures particle size using the proven technique of laser diffraction. A particle size distribution is calculated from measurements of the angular intensity of scattered light produced by a sample. The company presents the product at Powtech during a special lunchtime event. Make sure you get a seat and secure your free entrance ticket voucher for Powtech.

The new Delta Hybrid series of rotary lobe compressors from Aerzener Maschinenfabrik is a world first in creating a symbiosis between rotary lobe blowers (for a lower pressure range) and screw compressors (for a higher pressure range), for the first time ever permitting maximum pressure levels of up to 1.5 bar in pneumatic conveyance. In field trials at a milling operation it was rated “very good”.

In Addition to its aliphatic and aromatic polyols at its U.S. facility in Wilmington Invista operate also a production facility for aliphatic polyols in Vlissingen/The Netherlands.