Effebi soft-seated ball valves are suitable for all the most important industrial applications, including chemicals, petrochemicals, refineries, hydraulic and pneumatic installations, food plants and distribution lines for gas, air, water and vacuum.

The Process Technologies business unit which is part of Thyssen Krupp Industrial Solutions continues to have high expectations as the shale gas bonanza continues in the US—Following success in the fertilizer segment, managers are hoping for additional contracts in downstreaming as cracker capacity is expanded in North America.

The Pörner Group is a complete engineering service provider. Making use of their Austrian-German culture and taking a personal approach to each project, the company ensures that the customer is supported from the very start of the project.

MG2 introduces two machines. Selecta/W is the new check-weigher and sorting machine for tablets and capsules, which can check up to 500.000 units/hour.

Clear the stage for innovative developments: at the Powtech 2011 fair, PROCESS, PharmaTEC and Schüttgut chose the winners of the Innovation Award for the fourth time in a row, which spotlights firms for clever new products. Find out which developments particularly convinced the jury and brought their inventors the trophies in Nuremberg.

ExxonMobil has opened its new Asia Pacific Signum Laboratory at the ExxonMobil Shanghai Technology Center. The new laboratory in China is the company’s first in the Asia Pacific region and provides customers direct access to high quality oil analysis to help improve their equipment performance.

Speciality materials company Celanese and Mitsui of Japan plan a joint venture for methanol production at Celanese’s integrated chemical plant in Bishop, Texas.

BASF opens its ffith and largest so far construction chemicals plant in Asia at Nellore, India (Andhra Pradesh, South-East India). The new facility shall support regional customers with high-performance construction materials, the company explained.

Wether tracking proteins, DNA or endotoxins, adsorber capsules play an important role in all kinds of chromatography analytics. Yet, impurities can affect the precision of the measurement significantly. Now, a new dsevelopment effectively removes various impurities from protein feedstocks and are available in lab and process scale.

The shale gas bonanza in the US is inundating European and especially German industrial plant manufacturers with new projects. But the challenges associated with increasing project size affect not only EPC suppliers but also owner engineers at chemical companies.