In times of flexible production and small batch sizes, the chemical and pharmaceutical industries are using modular construction. Also Bilfinger CEO Tom Blades wishes to grow further with pharmaceutical projects and pre-assembled systems and is investing in new production capacity for this purpose. Can a plant from the modular system reverse the fortunes of the foundering maintenance specialists?

The European chlorine industry has now reached a crossroads. An EU directive mandates the early phasing out of the conventional amalgam process. We were at the Euro Chlor Technology Conference 2014 in Madrid to listen in on what the European chlorine industry plans to do next..

Air pollution control has become a focus of policy makers and industry: Regulations force industrial production and power plants to the observe valid limits.

Infrastructure and technology provider CB&I intends to sell their Technology business and is targeting to close the transaction by the end of the 2017 calendar year.

Global styrenics producer Ineos Styrolution, announced plans to increase its compounding capacity for engineering plastics by an additional 34,000 metric tonnes per annum at its Moxi plant located in Gujarat, India.

Akzo Nobel recently broke ground on a new alkoxylation facility in Ningbo, China. For this project the company budgets an investment of more than 400 million Euro.

Sadara, a joint venture between Saudi Aramco and The Dow Chemical Company, announced the commissioning of the last of its 26 plants: an isocyanates section currently producing crude quantities of toluene di isocyanate (TDI) and other specialty chemicals.

A new method of lyophilisation or freeze drying that uses a single, sterilisable, closed vessel to deliver lump free, fine powder product could have the capability to revolutionise the production of bulk pharmaceutical powders.

A new technology could help to significantly cut energy consumption of chlorine productions, Bayer states. CEO Thomas calls upon politicians to foster the development of energy-saving process technology.

The process oriented construction of a chemical plant is one of the most important aspects to ensure high quality production. Malfunctions may lead to extensive and expensive consequences. To prevent this, the TOC (Total Organic Carbon) content is detected in the immediate proximity of the processes using an online analyser. Two success stories …