With their high level of functionality and minimal space requirements, Robolux multi-port valves ensure compact processes, facilitate cleaning and increase overall process reliability. To improve their performance even further, they can now be combined with Bürkert’s Element series of actuators and control heads to provide an good base for the decentralized automation of hygienic processes.

In regulated markets — Europe, USA, Japan — barrier technologies are generally used in modern-day manufacturing and in bottling and sealing processes. There are many options for pharmaceutical companies, with decisions to be made on whether to use existing clean rooms with new or overhauled bottling and packaging systems or whether to invest in completely new processing technology.

Yokogawa Electric Corporation acquired Techinvent2, a Norwegian enterprise that holds the rights to Fluid Com, a chemical injection metering valve (CIMV).

Kaeser offers its proven Sigma Air Manager 4.0 master controller, which previously revolutionised the rotary screw compressor segment, to the application for blowers.

Chiyoda, Mitsubishi, Mitsui and Nippon Yusen announced the creation of the world’s first global hydrogen supply chain demonstration project in Japan.

Balancing between patent cliff, generic drugs and emerging markets the pharmaceutical industry has to position itself anew. This article is carrying out an analysis.

A joint research cooperation by GEA Niro and the Danish Technical University (DTU) investigates the behaviour of bulk flows within spray dryers – with laboratory scale simulation and state of the art CFD technology the partners aim for a better understanding of turbulent flow processes.

UOP supports key technology for a Chinese polypropylene production. The licensing of UOP's catalytic dehydrogenation technology is the first of it's kind for the Honeywell subsidiary in China.

China's Heilongjiang Province massively increases efforts to make hemp fibres a large-scale alternative to cotton. Additionally, experts work on hemp foods and pharmaceuticals. Western companies are invited to participate in the hemp boom.

When the going gets tough, the tough get going: Wilden's air-operated double-diaphragm pump (AODD) pumps of the ATEX-rated Advanced Series safely contain and transfer even the most hazardous solvents, including trichlorethane, trichloroethylene, methylene chloride, methyl chloride, carbon tetrachloride and chloroform.