Antwerp Port Authority and FPIM (Federal Participation & Investment Company) are to jointly acquire a stake in Nxt Port, the digital data platform for the port community. The port authority also announced that it would acquire the Nationale Maatschappij der Pijpleidingen (NMP) from its current shareholders Ackermans & van Haaren and Electrabel. With the takeover the port authority will gain ownership and control of 720 km of pipelines.

Emerson Process Management and Lubrizol have completed on-schedule, on-budget factory acceptance of Emerson’s integrated automation solution for Lubrizol’s greenfield additives manufacturing plant in Zhuhai, China. Emerson is the Main Automation Contractor for the plant, which will offer select additive component manufacturing as well as additive package blending.

Caywon Pharmaceutical Group will become the first international pharmaceutical company to adopt Crowd Machine as the key enabling technology to power its Pharma 4.0 digital transformation initiative. The company seeks to accelerate the translation of biomedical advances into innovative products through “distributed partnering”.

In the present times, when strategies to ascertain workplace safety and environment conservation have become a necessity, fail-safe PLC systems can work wonders. These systems minimize the risks involved in critical applications where the possibility of hazards is high. The fault-tolerant architecture ensures that the failure of a component does not interrupt the process operation, thus ensuring safety.

Siemens recieves major order from Asia: The company will deliver a total of eighteen compressor trains for oxygen production sites in India and Inner Mongolia. The order volume is in the three digit million Euro range...

A feature on the Indian process sector’s ability to conform to Industry 4.0 – Industry 4.0 has become a keyword for the engineering world as a whole. However, it is a challenging leap that comes along with various challenges. With industry experts’ views on the several challenges and possible solutions, we have tried to find out whether the Indian process sector is ready to embrace Industry 4.0.

Pentair Valves & Controls launched two notable new products: the Biffi DCM2 communication device for remote actuator control and the Westlock Controls Digital Epic-2 valve-position transmitter.

From bio-refineries to special chemical plants and food and pharmaceutical production – mixing technology and mixers are a key part of every production process. A visit at this year's Achema revealed three important trends in mixing technology.

The Marchesini Group has acquired a stake of 48 % in Sea Vision, a producer of vision and inspection systems used in drug quality and counterfeiting control.

Clariant has commenced operation of a high throughput twin-screw compounding extruder at its facility in Lewiston. The facility, which was expanded by 40 %, now accommodates not only extrusion equipment, but also materials handling, weighing stations, a maintenance area and additional water-cooling capacity.