Cabot plans to invest more than US$180 million, increasing its carbon black capacity in in China, Indonesia, Brazil and Argentina by the end of 2013, as well as adding capacity at three facilities in Europe.

Graphical programming and decentralised control shall usher in a new era: “Industry 4.0” is a concept in which industrial processes are implemented digitally in every aspect. Bürkert supports this development with the Efficient Device Integration Platform (EDIP), which enables intelligent networking down to the sensor and actuator level.

Nouryon and other firms based at Chemical Park Delfzijl in the Netherlands will save up to 100,000 tons of CO2 emissions per year through the increased use of sustainable steam. The company will use the additional supply to make its salt production at the Delfzijl site more sustainable.

KBR has been awarded a contract by Mangalore Chemicals and Fertilizers for revamping its ammonia plant at Panambur, Mangalore in India.

Klabin, the largest producer and exporter of packaging paper in Brazil, has awarded Pöyry with an EPCM (Engineering, procurement and construction management) assignment to develop the BOP (Balance of Plant) for the first phase of the Puma II project.

De Lille Oxygen has opted for two Ecos units. One is located at their customer’s site for flexible over-the-fence delivery of CO. The other will deliver on-demand CO for the rest of their customers from the company’s headquarter in Columbus, Ohio.

Germany’s first municipal waste water treatment plant to use Bio-Cel submerged membrane bioreactor (MBR) modules from Microdyn-Nadir marks the continuing success of this patented technology.

Clariant launched a new facility in Guangzhou, China, dedicated to the manufacturing and supply of specialty black masterbatches. These products are in high demand in a great number of consumer goods sectors.

Following the establishment of the national subsidiary in 2012, Sika is expanding its presence in Qatar with its own production facility. Alongside production lines for concrete-admixture manufacturing, the main office and a central storage facility will be located at the site.

BASF and Sinopec commenced production at the second propionic acid plant at the Verbund site in Nanjing, China. The new plant has an annual production capacity of 30,000 metric tons of propionic acid.