Zydus Cadila, a leading Indian pharmaceutical company, bought Macofar technology when it intended to expand production. The machine not only efficiently fills small vials but is also complaint to cGMP regulations. Read on to know more about it.

Gas and oil projects specialist Technip will provide pipelines, spools and manifolds for a CO2 storage project at a Norwegian offshore gas field. A corresponding double digit million Euros lumpsum contract was signed between Technip and Norway's National oil company Statoil.

The 50,000 sq. ft plant is expected to handle an initial capacity of 66 million pounds. The move aims at strengthening Borealis’ and Borouge’s global supply capability for thermoplastic olefin and short-glass fiber compounds.

One man's meat is another mans poison – The US' love affair with shale gas takes its toll on the country's butadiene industry, a new study shows. The country might well be caught up in the dependency of butadiene imports from foreign producers.

Exner’s new generation of Excell sensor series not only provides the end user with higher flexibility during application, but at the same time allows safer processing.

Hanmi Pharmaceutical has chosen GEA to supply manufacturing equipment for a new plant that’s currently under construction in the city of Pyeongtaek-si in the Gyeonggi province of South Korea.

A White Paper Modular Plants, written by the temporary ProcessNet working group, gives an overview on current t and product cycles in the chemical and pharmaceutical industry.

Uhde Inventa-Fischer is about to build a 432,000 tonnes a year PET production plant at Gehl, Belgium. The facility, that will become Europe's biggest PET producer, will produce high-quality raw materials for bottling and packaging applications for JBF Industries of India, speakers explained. Feedstock terephthalic acid will be produced by BP Chembel on the same site.

Pumping is one of the challenging tasks in the process industry. Depending on the company’s area of operations, content to be pumped vary, and hence the choice of pumps also differs. However, peristaltic is one of the pump types that is capable handling various kind of contents including abrasive, viscous, high density, corrosive, etc. This feature makes the pump ideal for varied purposes such as yeast pumping, vending machine applications, chemical pumping and many more.

In applications such as pH determination, process analytics is securely in the driving seat. As yet unexploited potential, in contrast, is still slumbering in spectroscopy. A solution is promised by new data analysis methods as well as the integration of analysis equipment into control systems.