In February 2017, IOCL commissioned together with the Pörner Group a new Biturox bitumen plant at Barauni Refinery near Patna in East India. This is the 4th plant operated by the Indian company based on Biturox technology. Pörner provided the license and engineering services.

According to a new study, reusing solvents instead of incinerating them would be a more practical approach for pharmaceutical manufacturers. Researchers have found that recycling reduces the amount of carbon emissions and consumes less energy than what would be required to make those chemicals from scratch. Maximum solvent recovery, being the need of the hour to promote solvent reuse, spiral heat exchangers can play a crucial role in achieving this goal.

Half of the global industrial energy consumption is wasted due to the inefficient and complicated recovery of low-grade energy.

Nanjing Chengzhi Yongqing Energy Technology's new 100 KTA butene-to-butadiene plant, built by Wison Engineering, started up successfully and produced on-spec butadiene. The plant was deployed with Oxidative Dehydrogenation of Butene-to-Butadiene (ODH) proprietary technology licensed by Wison, and built by the company through an EPC contract.

Sibur’s Blagoveshchensk site has completed reconstruction of the terephthalic acid production facility, the only one currently in Russia

Mitsui Chemicals announced that it has entered into a materials sector-based partnership agreement with Plug and Play, a Silicon Valley-based firm that supports the growth of startups.

Clariant announced the successful startup of its Catofin catalyst at Hengli Group’s new mixed-feed dehydrogenation plant in Dalian, China. The new unit combines propane dehydrogenation (PDH) with iso-butane dehydrogenation (BDH) process technologies, and it will produce over one million tons of olefins per year — becoming the world’s largest plant using Catofin catalyst technology.

The the diverse application possibilities of Augmented Reality (AR) shall now help to service and maintain vacuum pumps. While executing tasks, service technicians obtain useful additional information and graphical documentation, partly in 3D.

Syngas specialist GTL.F1, a joint venture of Statoil (Norway), PetroSA (South Africa) and Lurgi (Germany) have concluded technology developement for Fischer-Tropsch process technology and recently opened the licensing phase. GTL.F1 develops and licenses proprietary technologies for GTL investments. Norwegian venture partner Statoil will now withdraw from company ownership.

Ready-To-Use sterilization goes Robotic: The Robotic Pulsed Light Sterilizer by Italian manufacturer Steriline is the first machine to bring the benefits of pulsed light technology to the pharmaceutical sector.