With an aim to provide technical skills and knowledge to budding students intending to join the global industrial automation sector, Honeywell in collaboration with the University Politehnica of Bucharest has launched the ‘Industrial Automation Lab’.

Saudi Aramco and Sinopec have entered into a MOU to collaborate on multiple areas such as assessing refining and petrochemical integration opportunities; engineering, procurement and construction; oilfield services, upstream and downstream technologies as well as collaboration across carbon capture and hydrogen processes.

Nutrien has appointed Ken Seitz as its new President and CEO. Seitz had been appointed as interim CEO by the firm since January 2022 and under his leadership, the company has achieved significant results.

Digital pumps are here to stay: A recent study shows that the market for digital and connected pumps could nearly double in size within the next decade. But which trends and developments drive the market and what to expect of the next decade?

Orthex has plans to use Ineos Styrolution’s styrene acrylonitrile copolymer for producing storage products. The copolymers have been developed in partnership with BASF and is built on the firm’s styrene monomer derived from renewable feedstock which is based on a mass balance approach.

It’s hard to imagine biotechnological production without the reactor out of the bag — but is the single-use megatrend still in vogue elsewhere in these sustainability-minded times? It certainly is, says Marcus Bayer, Market Segment Manager Single-Use at Hamilton.

In the land of the rising sun, researchers have developed a new technology for small-scale ammonia production: The compact ammonia synthesis systems can enable smaller countries to establish their own decentralized NH3 production and could play an important role in the decarbonization of the industry. As so often, a sophisticated catalyst is the enabler.

Sea Vision and the Marchesini Group are launching a brand-new solution in the market for primary pack serialization and aggregation, comprising a complete range of technologies to print, inspect and pack serialized blisters and perform aggregation with cartons, all integrated in a 4.0 environment.

The recent report titled ‘2022 Chemical Industry Outlook’ by Deloitte highlights 5 key trends in the U.S. chemical industry. Right from adopting digital technologies to undertaking sustainability measures such as the implementation of e-crackers, advanced chemical recycling, green hydrogen, carbon capture and storage, the report elaborates on the current trends that are set to transform the industry like never before.

With the growing demand for biofuels across the globe, the oil refining firm Neste is in the process of expanding and digitalizing its existing biofuel refinery in Singapore in order to enhance process safety and asset integrity in the plant; improve energy efficiency, operational reliability and predictability in maintenance regime; and foster closer collaborations among other production sites.