The American Chemistry Council (ACC) has reported that global chemicals production rose 1.4 % in February. It also stated that chemical production grew in the Asia-Pacific region and the Former Soviet Union.

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

KBR has secured a Front-End Engineering Design contract from the BUA Group for its new refinery in Nigeria. The upcoming facility will support fuel production for Nigeria's domestic and regional markets, thus reducing the country’s dependence on imports.

Air Products has acquired the remaining 50% stake in its gasification technology joint venture from China Shenhua Coal to Liquid and Chemical Co. The move is expected to further strengthen the company’s gasification technology portfolio in China.

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.

Goudsmit Magnetics recently launched a rotating Cleanflow magnetic separator suitable for installation in free-fall lines in a continuous process. Cleaning takes place without stopping the product flow - an explicit request from a customer who wanted to recycle cans of milk powder in a continuous process.

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.

Everything metallic corrodes. The oil and gas industry spends approximately 1.14 billion euros (1.37 billion dollars) a year trying to prevent the damage this causes. How to reduce the costs of corrosion by using environmentally benign corrosion inhibitor products? Dr. Nihal Obeyesekere, Clariant's Head of Global Innovation Integrity Management for Business Unit Oil and Mining Services, has won the 2021 NACE Fellow Honor from the Association for Materials Protection and Performance (AMPP).

PROCESS Worldwide brings to you the most recent plant engineering projects from all over the world. Right from Front-End Engineering Design (Feed) contracts to plant revamp projects, find out all the projects making headlines here.

The Sesotec metal separator Rapid Pro-Sense with the control unit Genius+ offers extremely high sensitivity due to its innovative HRF (High Resolution Frequency) technology. The detection signal is sent and evaluated at a special frequency.