With an aim to further support its extreme cryogenics business, Air Liquide has taken over a majority stake in Cryoconcept, a firm specialising in dilution refrigeration. With this move, the company will be able to offer its customers with a complete range of products and services across the entire cold chain.

The new Wuxi plant is Sumitomo Chemical’s fifth production facility in China and with this project; the company aims to enhance its automotive materials business in the country’s Jiangsu Province.

The mega production facility is expected to have a capacity of 100,000 tonnes per annum on completion and will be built in Grandpuits, France. The plant will commence operations in 2024.

The new Air Separation Unit (ASU) is expected to have an oxygen production capacity of more than 2,000 tonnes per day and will be built in China’s Tianjin Port Free Trade Zone. The plant will enable Air Liquide to strengthen its position in the industrial basin.

Thyssen Krupp Industrial Solutions, the plant engineering and construction specialist of the Thyssen Krupp Group, has celebrated its 25th Anniversary in Thailand and announces further investments to strengthen its position as one of the leading plant engineering companies in the region.

A global survey conducted by Yokogawa has revealed that process industry companies are accelerating investment in industrial autonomy in the background of the current Covid-19 pandemic. Cyber security (51 %), cloud, analytics, and big data (47 %), and artificial intelligence (42 %) are three vital areas in which companies are planning significant investment over the next three years.

The digital twin of a plant is a virtual image, which not only allows internal process states to be displayed transparently, but also allows process optimizations to be worked out. Take the example of steam crackers — the king’s class of process plants — and learn how models, simulations and digital twins can be used to generate benefits over the entire life cycle of plants.

The Chemical Activity Barometer (Cab), rose by 2.5 per cent in August on a three-month moving average basis following a 3.0 per cent gain in July, reports the American Chemistry Council (ACC).

Even though Powtech cannot take place before 2022, the exhibits and technology solutions which Grenzebach planned to showcase at the trade fair can now be seen on a digital information platform.

The new high-tech production site will produce the Catofin catalyst for propane dehydrogenation which is used in the production of olefins. The move is expected to strengthen Clariant’s position in China and also support the country’s petrochemicals industry.