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BASF inaugurates its new world-scale production plant for sodium methylate in Guaratinguetá, Brazil, the company's largest site in South America.

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.

This solution allows companies to minimize the risk involved in system migration – Companies, particularly medium-sized enterprises, cannot afford excessive production outages in the course of modernizing the control technology used in their processing systems. Migrating to a new solution step by step can be the answer to maximizing system availability and avoiding extended or unplanned downtime, as demonstrated by a recent migration project at specialty chemical producer CHT/BEZEMA.

Clariant hosted a Grand Opening Event for their new facilities based in Clinton, Oklahoma. The site is a strategic location to support the growing oil and gas industry within the Mid-Continental (Mid-Con) region with a focus on the Stack and Scoop, the company announced.

Emerson has launched the latest version of its Smart Meter Verification software for Coriolis and magnetic flow meters, providing flow meter verification on demand and empowering process engineers, technicians and operators to look beyond the meter and make real-time decisions based on the most advanced meter and process diagnostics in the industry today.

Allgaier has debuted two new products at Achema. First, the company introduced an energy-efficient indirectly heated contact dryer, the CD Dryer, where wet material is fed over an assembly of rotating disks, which are internally heated using saturated steam.

Evonik will increase its annual production capacity for precipitated silica at the existing site in Adapazari (Turkey) by 40,000 metric tons, investing a sum in the lower double-digit million euro range.

Hamilton Bonaduz offers an entirely new generation of monitoring measurement and management with the new Arc Bluetooth package.

Operations in chemical companies could be significantly more efficient if procurement, production and supply chain were managed by an overarching strategy. Furthermore, operations strategy is insufficiently aligned with customer requirements. Consequently, chemical companies are wasting huge performance potential.