Akzo Nobel Specialty Chemicals has broken ground on a project to expand production capacity and upgrade its organic peroxides facility in Mahad, India.

The risk of cyber attack, once overhyped, now threatens businesses’ very existence. Its severity varies significantly with geography: For example, inherent cyber risk has climbed in France over the past year while plummeting in Taiwan, two of the biggest changes in cyber risk in the 2018 FM Global Resilience Index.

Blackmer has recently announced that it will be exhibiting at the International Liquid Terminals Association (ILTA) International Operating Conference and Trade Show on June 11-13 in Houston, TX, USA.

Sensitizing the Asian market in safety matters — Better safe than sorry: Asia is the undisputed powerhouse of the global process industries. Its products and newly constructed world-scale chemical parks are more than a match for the international competition. But what about the safety issues? In fact, most companies’ need for services and maintenance works are growing at a stretch and are thus in need of a little help — and encouragement — in that very field, as experts say...

Engineering begins with an idea at a one-stop specialist for chemical and polymer projects  – Can a process that traces its roots back to the 19th century become even better today? Can the production capacity of a PET plant be enhanced by over 100 % without replacing the main reactor? And can a one-stop engineering provider still have a specific solution for each problem? The answer to all this questions is — yes, with the right ideas.

Gerresheimer is further expanding its presence on the South American market by starting production of pharmaceutical plastic packaging in the Brazilian state of Goiás.

Through the combination of a plant expansion, operational improvements, and debottlenecking projects, Cabot is expanding its global capacity for carbon black by over 300,000 metric tons.

With the increasing demand for fiber-reinforced resins, the company plans to introduce its new product Mostron-L and is in the process of expanding its production.

In the production of lithium batteries extremely high quality demands are placed on the preparation of the required raw materials. Lödige has addressed this challenging process-technical task with a special version of the proven Ploughshare mixer.

Chinese expertise in red is almost proverbial and for Lanxess a 60 million Euro investment worth. In the first quarter of 2016, the company will produce saturated red iron oxide pigments in Ningbo/China.