The 12th Achemasia was ceremonially opened on October 14, 2025, at the National Exhibition and Convention Center in Shanghai Hongqiao. Under the motto "International Sustainable Chemical Production," this year's exhibition brought together 265 companies from 14 countries and regions, along with 10,000 participants from 61 countries and regions.

Corrosion, broken springs, and unstable operating conditions: A centrifugal pump has repeatedly failed at a chemical production facility at Dow Chemical. It was only the targeted use of sensors on the mechanical seal and structured data analysis that finally brought clarity — and ensured that the pump and production were running stably again.

Autonomous robots are the new smart technologies in the market and the who’s who of the industry are already planning to explore these solutions for their industrial facilities. Plant inspections can now be carried out multiple times in a day with high accuracy and precision.

With a special focus on inspection, digitalization, and laboratory solutions, Marchesini Group will be presenting a series of innovative solutions at the upcoming CPHI trade show.

Resman Energy Technology, a global leader in wireless reservoir surveillance solutions, will be acquired by global technology company SLB. With this acquisition, SLB aims to enhance its portfolio with world-class production and reservoir tracer technologies.

With an aim to accelerate expansion into the Southeast Asian market, Lotte Chemical has developed a new petrochemical complex in Indonesia. A completion ceremony for the project was also recently held in the country.

With a mega investment of 6.5 billion dollars, Eli Lilly and Company has plans to develop a next-generation synthetic medicine active pharmaceutical product facility in Texas, USA. The facility will focus on manufacturing the company's pipeline of small molecule medicines across therapeutic areas.

In industrial rice processing, up to 20 percent of the grains break. This is partly due to the milling of the rice grains on their way from raw material to end product. Process engineers use particle simulations to understand this complex process and design it in such a way that losses are reduced.

PROCESS Worldwide brings to you the ‘Top 10 plant engineering projects of September 2025’ from all over the world. Right from Evonik launching its world-scale alkoxides production facility in Singapore to Clariant supplying catalysts for the world’s largest electric steam methane reformer, find out all the projects making headlines here.

Under a five-year framework service agreement signed between Thyssenkrupp Uhde and Brunei Fertilizer Industries, Thyssenkrupp Uhde will help to set-up and implement a digital twin for Brunei Fertilizer Industries’ plant.