Measurements and optics specialist Carl Zeiss celebrates the opening of its new assembly and demo center for Industrial Metrology in Bangalore, India. The Tech Center there allows Zeiss' Industrial Metrology division to offer its customers additional services such as demos, training, contract programming, contract measurements and a service hotline.

The world's largest propane dehydrogenation (PDH) unit has begun production: The new 600 kta plant at Tianjin, PR China, uses Clariant's Catofin catalysts process and technology under a license from CB&I.

Tres Valles produces not just sugar in the sugar cane factory of the Piasa group, but also power on the side. WEG has delivered the integrated energy production solution for the first power-heat coupling plant of Mexico.

Bloomberg reports that Iran’s Persian Gulf Petrochemical Industries Company is in talks with Asian companies to raise as much as 1 billion Euros ($ 1.1 billion) .

“The hermetically sealed centrifugal pump outperforms magnetic-drive pumps with respect to mode of operation and reliable contents of solids and gases in the pumping medium” — the verdict of PROCESS on a new magnetic-drive pump. That was over two and a half years ago, so its now time to find out how the dry-running horizontal pump has fared in day-to-day service.

At Mölnlycke Health Care’s production center in England, printing is applied to porous and smooth substrates on a wide variety of shapes and packaging materials. The printing result must meet demanding standards. Excellent flexibility is one of the outstanding features of a new highly versatile thermal inkjet printer.

Many industrial processes require heat energy to be moved from one place to another via a heat transfer fluid: typically water and steam at temperatures up to 200 °C, and heat transfer oils for the range 200–450 °C. Pumping fluids reliably at such high temperatures is a challenge that sealless canned motor pumps can meet. The new generation of solar thermal power stations provides a practical example.

With WirelessHART and ISA100.11a, suppliers support two different, but very similar, industrial standards. In Asia a third standard is currently emerging. First came the fieldbus war — now we are bracing ourselves for the wireless clash. PROCESS interviewed Dr. Wolfgang Morr, General Manager of NAMUR, and Martin Schwibach, Chairman of the NAMUR working group “Wireless Automation”.

Microbiologists, biochemists, and chemical engineers need to cultivate organisms in a highly controlled manner. As such, bioreactors have become integral to the pharmaceutical, food, and chemical industries. In order to successfully fulfill experimental requirements, suitable conditions and parameters must be provided, which include accurate temperature control, i.e., heating and cooling.

It sounds like a scene from a science fiction movie: A newly developed method produces customized molecules in the reactor according to a building plan – to some extent the 3D printer for chemistry. Although the “Chemputer” was actually supposed to synthesise customized medicine, British defence and aerospace multinational BAE has secured the method. Now drones are expected to be developed in the chemical bath.