The joint venture between plant engineering and construction specialist Thyssen Krupp Industrial Solutions and electrochemical technologies supplier De Nora was concluded successfully on April 1st, 2015. It will trade under the name Thyssen Krupp Uhde Chlorine Engineers and is operational with immediate effect.

German Coperion aims to get a foothold in Asia: The company has equipped a special assembly facility for its modular compounding systems at its production site in Shanghai/China. The new 2,000 m² facility will help to cope with the increasing demand for modular compounding systems in the rapidly developing markets of the Far East.

Coperion moves its Chinese extruder production to a new location: By February 2015, the company will have located to a new facility in the Nanjing Jiangning District. It's current production site in China will focus on R&D and Technology, Coperion explained.

Kaeser offers its proven Sigma Air Manager 4.0 master controller, which previously revolutionised the rotary screw compressor segment, to the application for blowers.

Thyssenkrupp Polysius has won a contract from PT Holcim Indonesia Tbk., Jakarta, to build a second cement plant near the town of Tuban on the northern coast of the island of Java. The contract is worth around 250 million US dollars and the plant is scheduled to start production in 2015.

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Technip will modify and expand onshore gas processing facilities of Total E&P Borneo in Brunei for a “significant” double-digit million dollar sum. This project aims at the modification of onshore facilities as well as the construction of a new pipeline, to transport Maharaja Lela & Jamalulalam South gas to the Brunei Liquefied Natural Gas (BLNG) plant

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The specialty chemicals group Evonik has established a new plant for the production of organically modified specialty silicones. The aim behind this move is to strengthen the company’s presence in one of the world’s most dynamic markets.

At the recent “Thailand 4.0 Towards Connected Industries” symposium, PTT Global Chemical encouraged partnerships with Japanese companies and foreign investors for projects in Thailand’s Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC).