Busch Vacuum Pumps and Systems will be showcasing its latest vacuum solutions at Achema. The new Dolphin liquid ring vacuum pumps are the focus of this year's trade show presentation. The company will also be presenting its Atex T3-certified Cobra NC 0600 C screw vacuum pump.

Huntsman has completed its new € 38 million iron sulfate plant at its titanium dioxide (TiO2) pigment manufacturing facility in Scarlino, Italy. Design and construction were carried out by Jacobs Engineering of the US.

Wolftechnik offers WTBKF combined filter housings for bag filters and cartridge filters. A high-grade steel casting base ensures that all housing types are constructed in a compact and space-saving manner.

Easy handling of air sensitive and crystallizing fluids – Fluid metering announced a new Low Volume Valveless Metering Pump, that precisely dispenses air sensitive and crystal forming liquids.

Bratislava has a huge oil refinery with an annual capacity of six million tons of oil and other chemical products. Mark van Rosse – a BBA Pumps service engineer – recently assisted in the commissioning of the largest mobile fire fighting pump unit in Slovakia.

Science, industry and politics are joining forces to turn exhaust gases into chemical raw materials —  Some 20 million tons of CO2 are at stake — this is the amount of greenhouse gas Germany's steelworks emit into the atmosphere every year. No surprise then that experts see great potential for the material use of waste gases. Can the mammoth project “smokestack chemistry” succeed? The Carbon2Chem conference is campaigning for a cooperation between the different players.

The Star Aegean Refinery in Izmir/Turkey is currently under construction. At the same time a hydrogen plant is to be built in the direct vicinity. The reformer will be delivered by Technip.

The US Drug Supply Chain Security Act and the EU Falsified Medicines Directive both contain similar basic requirements in terms of serialization. However, while the overall objective – a safer drug supply chain – is the same on both sides of the Atlantic, the respective regulations differ widely in many aspects.

A group of industry, government and international experts have convened in the city of Buenos Aires to support strengthening the sound management of chemicals and waste in Argentina.

Ube Industries has developed torrefied pellets carbonized from woody biomass, for use in coal-fired power plants as a co-firing ratio of 10 % or more (calorie basis). The torrefied pellets will facilitate the use of woody biomass as a renewable energy source.