Honeywell Process Solutions (HPS) recently announced that its production accounting and reconciliation software will be used to improve performance at a leading global mining company based in Switzerland.

Speciality materials company Celanese announced it is in the initial stages of a capital efficient debottlenecking project of its polyoxymethylene (POM) production lines to support the continued growth in its engineered materials business.

Sulzer has received an order from Innova for the delivery of a foam production system relying on Sulzer's extruder-based melt impregnation technology. The facility in Triunfo, Brazil, will produce Expandable Polystyrene (EPS). Commercial production is planned to start mid-2016.

Yokogawa Germany will present automation solutions for digital transformation at Achema. The company will focus on all key aspects of automated processing plants in the chemical and pharmaceutical industries. Yokogawa will also showcase solutions for ‘modular automation’ at its ZVEI partner Stand as well as its own portfolio of transmitters at the shared Profibus exhibition space.

The emerging Asian Middle classes, urbanisation and population grow drive the need for environemntal solutions, esepcially for clean and sustainable water, in the developing countries - adevelopment that was of major interest at this year's IFAT India 2013...

Lanxess is expanding cresol production at its Leverkusen site once again. The specialty chemicals company plans to further increase capacity for this high-quality intermediate for the global market by some 20 percent by mid 2013.

Clariant has been awarded a contract by Jinneng Science & Technology Company, to design the world’s largest single-train propane dehydrogenation unit in collaboration with CB&I.

Engineering Specialists Foster Wheeler will continue their work for the Sadara project, a joint venture of Dow and Saudi Aramco that is currently busy building one of the largest fully integrated chemicals complexes at Jubail/Saudi Arabia.

China National Offshore Oil Corporation (Cnooc) and Shell Nanhai (Shell) announced the official start-up of the second ethylene cracker at their Nanhai petrochemicals complex in Huizhou, Guangdong Province, China.

Continuous manufacturing is nowadays one of the main drivers of innovation in the pharmaceutical industry. Strongly encouraged by the regulatory authorities for drug production, continuous manufacturing can ensure flexible and efficient production, while improving the pharmaceutical products in terms of potency, effectiveness and safety.