Growth expected on Indonesia's pharmaceutical market: Manufacturers of packaging solutions like glass specialist Schott present their portfolio at the recent Allpack in Jakarta/Indoneia. The recent trend towards social security and healthcare systems in Asia could offer pharmaceutical service providers and component suppliers new possibilities, company speakers believe...

Emerson Process Management has established a Technology Design Centre at its Cluj-Napoca campus in Romania to support the Micro Motion flow and density product lines and Roxar measurement technologies.

The use of chillers is essential to the operation of any pharmaceutical plant—for process cooling, HVAC loads and the maintenance of humidity and space temperature set points in Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) spaces. These machines consume a lot of electricity for its working. In this article, an automation expert shares his experiences of how a pharmaceutical company enhanced its operational efficiency and reduced energy costs by incorporating state–of–the–art automation...

Over 100 years after the development of the air separation process, gases are an indispensable ingredient in modern processes. Are we taking full advantage of these volatile enablers? Jens Waldeck, Linde Gas European CEO, and Elisabeth Mehlan, Head of Market Development in Europe, are convinced that, in order to win customers for new avenues in gas exploitation, it is essential to understand their processes.

India and China are the two fastest developing economies in Asia with the pharmaceutical industry being no exception.. As the countries are increasingly catering to the global demands, the present scenario often compels to drastically cut down the new plant designing, erection and commissioning time. Only a company with years-long versatile project management experience and capability can help the user company under such circumstances...

Natural gas production is a complex undertaking – Especially when the whole gas production, refining and liquefaction process has to be carried out at the high seas. Offshore productions, like Shells giant FLNG–facility, need a Laboratory Management Information System that can keep up with this challenge.

Perstorp has plans to investigate the production of recycled methanol at its Swedish facility in Stenungsund. The study aims at producing a more sustainable, recycled methanol to replace fossil methanol as a raw material in the firm’s s production process.

Nouryon has expanded the production of dialkyl peroxide by 25 % at the company’s Ningbo site in China. The firm’s product under the brand ‘Perkadox 14’ plays an important role in the production of various elastomer-based products.

The Linde Group and Haldor Topsøe, a market leading provider of integrated catalyst solutions, have been selected as technology suppliers for the syngas treatment and methanation unit of Posco’s — one of the largest steel producers in the world — synthetic natural gas (SNG) plant.

Lurgi has been awarded the order for supplying the technology and license for a fatty alcohol plant in Jubail within Sabic Affiliate, Saudi Kayan.