Aveva, a global leader in engineering and industrial software, has recently announced that Italpresse Gauss has embedded the company’s Augmented and Virtual Reality software in its high-performance light metal casting solutions with the development of a new tool branded as Ame.

Quality Metrics — Regulatory requirement or business opportunity? — Inspections yes, but only as many as necessary. The FDA has been acting on this principle for many years. With the recent FDA Quality Metrics Initiative, the agency is pushing ahead with this project and is trying to bring greater responsibility to the pharmaceutical industry.

Through the MOU, Adnoc LNG aims to install innovative technologies including artificial intelligence and big data analytics in its facilities to optimise plant operation and improve production efficiency.

The plan aims at strengthening the seed brands along with expanding its portfolio to better serve the customers.

Technip has been awarded by Unipetrol a significant lump sum contract to supply four cracking furnaces for their ethylene plant in Zaluzi, Czech Republic.

Ineos Phenol is taking the next step to build a world scale Cumene unit in Germany to be completed in 2020. The company has confirmed that it has started a Front End and Engineering study (Feed) with a view to taking a final investment decision by the end of 2018.

KSB is presenting a new pump monitoring system called KSB Guard. Networked vibration and temperature sensors fitted directly to the pump make availability at plant level transparent for the first time.

Clariant introduced a number of environmentally friendly and hazard label-free products to the North American architectural paints market.

With the new new test laboratory for Flexi-Disc tubular cable conveyors and integrated bulk handling equipment technicians verify system performance prior to final equipment design and fabrication.

With the intention of converting post-consumer polystyrene waste into styrene monomer, Ineos Styrolution has signed a MOU with Agilyx for installing the de-polymerisation technology at its facility.