Eastman Chemical Company has plans to upgrade and expand its extrusion capabilities for the production of interlayers product lines at its Springfield, Massachusetts manufacturing facility in the USA.

Pfeiffer Vacuum presents an extension to its Digiline series: the total pressure vacuum gauges with digital signal output. The modular concept is suitable for harsh environments and is also available with the industrial Ethernet interfaces of Profinet and Ethercat.

According to a recent American Chemistry Council (ACC) report U.S. chemical industry investment linked to shale gas has reached $164 billion.

Sinochem Hongrun has licensed W. R. Grace & Co’s Unipol PP process technology along with the Unipol Unippac process control software for its facility in Shandong, China. The new plant will include a reactor line capable of producing 450 KTA of polypropylene.

Sasol will be joining Linde, Enertrag and Navitas to explore the potential of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), an initiative supported by the German Government’s H2 Global auction platform. Together with its partners, Sasol plans to carry out feasibility studies regarding the production of SAF at its Secunda Synfuels plant in South Africa.

Jens Bukrinski, Chief R&D Officer, SB3000 has recently stated in a conference that its continuous manufacturing μLOT technology could reduce the pharmaceutical industry’s use of toxic chemicals by 100 times.

Metering and process diaphragm pumps manufacturer Lewa has signed a purchase contract with Seko Middle East FZE, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Seko S.p.A., to take effect on December 1, 2016. The object of the agreement was the takeover of the entire plant, including all assets and the chemical injection package (CIP) business for the oil and gas sector, the (petro-)chemical industry and the power plant sector. The acquisition is part of the Lewa Group’s strategy of specializing in pumps and integrated systems solutions.

Thyssenkrupp has signed a contract with CF Industries to deliver the mega plant in order to produce green ammonia at the Donaldsonville manufacturing complex in Louisiana, USA. The project is expected to decarbonize the world’s largest ammonia production plant.

Dupont has plans to construct a new adhesives manufacturing facility in Zhangjiagang, Jiangsu Province in East China. The new project is expected to cater to regional customers in the transportation industry.

Gazprom, Rusgazdobycha and Nipigaz have undertaken the move in order to optimize the project costs. The complex is a vital project for the gas processing and chemical cluster that is being developed in the region.