Thyssenkrupp Uhde has secured an order from Sedin Engineering Co. to build and supply four new low-emission, stamp-charged coke oven batteries for Hohhot Risun China Gas Energy Co. in China. With a total annual capacity of 3.9 Mio tons, the coke oven batteries will include Thyssenkrupp’s proprietary Envibat technology as well as the Cokemaster automation system.

Compounding and extrusion expert Coperion supplied the new-to-the-market company Heroplas with two of their ZSK Twin Extruders to start their Polyolefin production.

With an aim to expand its production facility in Singapore via the Singapore Expansion Project, Neste has chosen Emerson to incorporate its automation systems and software in order to ensure efficient production, thus bringing the expanded refinery on-line by 2023.

The new brand merges Altran’s engineering and R&D services along with Capgemini’s digital manufacturing expertise. Capgemini Engineering aims to assist global innovators engineer next-gen products and services.

The latest recruitment news from the process industry starts with a bang. In addition, there are some rotational changes and strategic new hires to report. PROCESS worldwide summarises the news from the executive floors for you.

AGR has selected Linde Engineering to carry out the design and construction of an integrated hydrogen fueling station and electrolysis plant in Herten, Germany. The project has received funding of up to 7.3 million dollars from the German Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure.

Ercros has begun expanding the production capacity of Dipenta at its factory in Tortosa, Tarragona, Spain by 15 %. Most of the dipenta produced will be used to increase the company’s presence in the Asian and US markets.

Merck has plans to expand research and development as well as manufacturing capabilities at its site in Shizuoka, Japan. The move is expected to boost innovations for the electronic materials sector.

The web-based solution Sam Valve Management by Samson implements smart monitoring and management of control valves installed in process plants. It combines the traditional world of control valves with the digital opportunities made possible by Industry 4.0 and IIOT technologies. For customers, this proves to be true added value.

Specialty Chemical company Evonik expands its cooperation with IBM in the field of digitization and becomes a member of the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab to accelerate innovation with AI. The two companies extend their strategic partnership ahead of schedule until 2025.