A new manufacturing facility in Texas is being established for MPCA, a consolidated subsidiary producing and distributing super-pure hydrogen peroxide.

Sanofi recently announced that it has completed the acquisition of Protein Sciences, a vaccines biotechnology company based in Meriden, Connecticut in the United States. This completion follows Federal Trade Commission approval, having met all the conditions required for the closing of the transaction. The acquisition helped Sanofi Pasteur add Flublok, a promising product to its influenza vaccine portfolio.

The heroic age has passed. Very little revolutionary process technology has emerged in the chemical industry in recent years. No pioneering achievements like Haber-Bosch. Nevertheless, the labs are still alive and well — a journey to the world of developers and innovation.

Sulzer’s Chemtech division has been granted a license covering the Total-patented Wash Tank Technology for Oil Processing.

Three production plants, more than 170 employees, and a turnover of over 22 million Euros characterize Vitabalans Oy. This Finnish company develops, manufactures and markets prescription medicines, OTC medicines, food supplements and veterinary products. Now the company expands and builds up a new factory in Finland.

Harmonization of European laws has increased the stringency of requirements covering design, safe use, and leakage control in pumps. When handling inherently hazardous liquefied petroleum gases (LPGs) pump designs should tick all the regulatory boxes as well as bring economic benefits to operators.

Transportation and disposal of ash in thermal power station burning high sulphur coal — Coal is the primary fuel for a thermal power plant. Few power plants burn imported coal and pet coke which contains higher quantity of sulfur. While burning this type of fuel, lime will be injected to absorb the sulfur dioxide liberated while burning the coal in order to reduce the quantity of sulfur dioxide emitted in to the atmosphere along with the flue gas. The ash generated contains Calcium sulfate and unburnt CaO.

The rapid exploration of China's vast coal reserves and the country's efforts to build a domestic, coal based basic chemicals industry offer new potentials for innovative Methanol-to-Propylene (MTP) technology. Air Liquide's subsidiary Lurgi was now assigned to build a second MTP plant for a Chinese coal industry group.

India's booming economy fires the demand for plastics and polymers - butalso the domestic production of basic materials. In 2012, India accounted for nearly ten percent of global ethylene production, recent figures show...

Water –Although seemingly available in abundancy - is a depleting ressource. Endress+Hauser (India) has carried a case study at Bauda water treatment plant, that indicates where the challenges and opportunities of tomorrow's water treatment system lie...