Reliance Industries plans to invest $ 9.8 billion in a crude-oil-to-chemicals (COTC) complex at the company's Jamnagar site in India, Chemical Week reports.

How does a company go from building mills and silo systems to becoming a specialist in raw materials handling? With creativity and inventive spirit, that is how. As a result, today the name Azo stands for wide-ranging know-how and expertise in all areas relating to raw materials, plant construction and process engineering, as well as control technology and automation. And all this with the goal of automating bulk materials and fluids handling processes.

Keeping up with complexity — Bioprocesses are complex — thus, frequent measurement and data-driven real time process management are needed to keep complexity in check. The demand for a PAT that guarantees GMP and includes quality by design calls for specialised on-line sensor solutions. And recent technological developments are up to the task ...

Tata Chemicals Society for Rural Development (TCSRD) inaugurated a dry waste processing plant at Mithapur, an initiative launched under the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan campaign.

Ineos Styrolution and Agilyx announced that they are advancing the development of a polystyrene (PS) chemical recycling facility in Channahon, Illinois.

Monolithic structures in process automation will soon be outdated. This will lead to even more competition, Jürgen Brandes, CEO of Siemens Division Process Industries and Drives, says in a double interview with his colleague and CTO Jörn Oprzynski. What role will be left for Distributed Control Systems (DCS) in the future? What can assistance systems already do today, and is autonomous plant operation really going to happen? Our exclusive interview offers up answers to all of these and a lot more questions.

Under the MOU, the newly formed JV will establish a new propylene oxide (PO) and styrene monomer (SM) unit in China. The unit is expected to produce 300 KTA of PO and 600 KTA of SM.

Hyundai Chemical Company’s 300 kTA high-density polyethylene plant will utilise Univation Technologies’ Unipol PE Technology for the project. The new plant is expected to be constructed in the Republic of Korea.

BASF has inaugurated a new global Research and Development (R&D) Center at its Thane site in Navi Mumbai, India, focusing on organic synthesis, advanced process and formulation research, discovery chemistry for modern agricultural solutions, and molecular modelling.

Whether cyclone screeners, vacuum weighing systems or automated dosing of micro quantities with the aid of robot technology, during the course of the last 70 years, Azo has written many key chapters in the annals of bulk materials handling. And this is set to continue into the future.