Under a strategic partnership between Dataparc and Hitachi Systems, Hitachi Systems will integrate Dataparc’s industrial data platform into its suite of digital manufacturing solutions which will help its customers to unlock deeper operational insight and accelerate their journey toward smart manufacturing.

With everything changing around us right from the way we secure our knowledge, to communicating with people to the way the workforce across industries is being made to upgrade their existing skill sets to take on more productive tasks, one thing is certain: Change is constant. Smart technologies like Augmented Reality have not only entered the workforce but are transforming the workforce like never before.

Dupont has partnered with Uncountable, an AI-driven platform for end-to-end product and application development, to boost its AI-ready labs initiative. The partnership enhances how Dupont designs, tests, and optimizes complex formulations, helping accelerate the delivery of new solutions to customers.

Achema Middle East will now take place from 11–13 October 2027 at the Riyadh Front Exhibition & Conference Center in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Achema’s maiden event in the Middle East was supposed to be conducted this year but it has been postponed for a more impactful launch edition for the region's process industries.

Emerson and Aramco will work together to co-develop the next-generation corrosion management solutions for Aramco. As part of the corrosion R&D collaboration, Aramco will combine its expertise and intellectual property with Emerson’s advanced corrosion solutions to digitalize and transform corrosion management.

Sacmi will be showcasing its latest solution – an integrated, digital production line for caps and preforms at the upcoming Drink Japan exhibition which will be held from December 3-5, 2025 in Tokyo, Japan.

Emerson’s Aspen Hybrid Models have been integrated into Aramco’s existing refinery planning framework, leading to the development of one of the world’s largest multi-site, multi-period optimization models.

The IMCD Group, one of the leading players in the distribution and formulation of speciality chemicals and ingredients, has recently inaugurated its new Pharmaceutical Technical Centre and Food & Nutrition US Technical Hub in New Jersey, USA.

BASF’s new acid chlorides and chloroformates production plant is a fully modernized plant located at its Ludwigshafen Verbund site in Germany. The low three-digit million-euro investment includes a fundamental renewal of the production infrastructure for acid chlorides and chloroformates and increases production capacity at the site by approximately 30 %.

Emerson has introduced the Synchros Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) platform through which maintenance and operations teams can now digitize inspection points and extend visibility using a flexible wireless architecture.