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.

Many companies in the industrial ecosystem fail to take the necessary steps to minimize their security risks. In an effort to accelerate commissioning time, many companies do not even take advantage of a product’s built-in security features. Know more about best practices to secure the plant against cyber risks.

Thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions about the trends, opportunities and challenges facing Thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions — Asked Helmut Knauthe, Head of Technology, Innovation and Sustainability, sees the business unit’s customer proximity and concerted efforts to boost its competitiveness, develop products and services tailored to customers’ needs, and research into areas such as resource efficiency, renewable energies, climate protection and digitization as key to delivering better technological solutions.

Evonik Industries and the Chinese company Wynca have agreed to form a joint venture. The new company, in which Evonik will hold 60 %, will produce fumed silica. The product is used in transparent silicones, coatings and paints, modern adhesives as well as non-combustible high-performance insulation materials.

Software solutions become the backbone of global engineering systems — Of the shelf products won’t stand a chance when a worldwide chemical leader needs a new engineering solution. Only tailor-made software suites can truly become the nerve of global plant project managements. But the extra-work pays off: Engineering, management, operation and maintenance all benefit from the edge of information theta modern software solutions provide.