This move has been undertaken to develop the company’s market position in the synthetic rubber market across the globe.

The transport of a fully-assembled Liebherr R 996 B hydraulic mining excavator between two mine sites proved to be the largest complete excavator moved in Australian history.

Big in the East: How industry experts use local expertise to provide customers with high performance technologies — Vekamaf has come a long way from its humble beginnings as a local machine distributor to an international technology services provider. Today, industry expertise combined with state of the art equipment are the specialty of the Dutch company. In the end, it’s all about the customer.

Designed with advanced ion selective electrode (ISE) sensors and a highly intelligent transmitter, the new plug-and-play Ammonium Hydra-DS Analyzer from Electro-Chemical Devices (ECD) simplifies the accurate measurement of harmful nutrients (nitrogen) over a broad range to help assure water quality.

The transaction takes place in the background of BP Alternative Energy’s plan to explore the impact of digitalisation in the energy sector.

Water treatment is not the environment in which one expects to find state of the art automation technology — And yet, sewage treatment plants could benefit greatly from the latest developments in drives and process control systems. All that is needed is an open mind for innovative thinking and new technologies, as a major English water distributor experienced.

Lanxess is building a new facility for the production of prepolymers at its site in Porto Feliz, Brazil. The Urethane Systems business unit is investing a single-digit million dollar amount to expand its prepolymer production capacity, which is scheduled to come on stream in the first half of 2019. Current production at the Rio Claro site, about 200 kilometers away, will be terminated.

Haver & Boecker (Oelde, Germany) and Windmoeller & Hoelscher (Lengerich, Germany) announced the launch of a new joint venture company, known as Aventus, at a press conference yesterday at Achema.

Plant construction without annoying interfaces — There are not many technology and plant construction firms who can cover the full range of engineering services. But the EPC Group can! PROCESS visited the traditional — yet highly innovative — company from Thüringen/Germany.

The Thyssenkrupp Group’s materials business is digitizing its entire range and consolidating it in what the company describes as the world’s biggest virtual warehouse.