Many of the innovative pump models introduced by SPX Flow are specifically designed to address challenges faced by the chemical, petrochemical, power and oil industries. The specialised pumps offer numerous benefits such as increased efficiency, enhanced reliability, reduced installation footprint, reduced weight, protection against leakages and high metering accuracy.

Evonik is reorganizing its business for high-performance polymers within the polyamide group. The specialty chemicals company has already begun construction of a new polyamide 12 (PA 12) facility complex and is expanding its production of transparent polyamides at the Marl Chemical Park. As part of the reorganization process, the company will withdraw entirely from the polyphthalamide (PPA) business at the Witten site.

Slump in sales and trade crises: The chemical industry in Europe in general and Germany in particular had a bumpy start into 2019. The downward trend of 2018 intensified during the first half of the year, as important customer industries are weakening and the special effects of the pharmaceutical industry are starting to slow. Recovery is unlikely in the face of international uncertainty. Is that the low point or the beginning of a longer downtrend?

The project has been awarded by SCE Chemicals and is expected to produce caustic soda, hydrochloric acid and sodium hypochlorite chlorine. The new Chlor-Alkali Plant is scheduled to be complete by 2020.

Ernesto Occhiello has resigned due to personal reasons and his post will now be temporarily headed by Hariolf Kottmann, the company’s Chairman of the Board of Directors until a new head is appointed.

Fluence Analytics intends to use the new funds to support its paid proof of performance trials, expand sales activities, and invest in new hardware and software capabilities. The investment comes post the startup announcing a Series A-1 funding round.

Not much is possible without catalysts: More than 80 % of all chemically manufactured products undergo a catalytic step during their production. The active material is usually platinum or another precious metal, so production is correspondingly expensive and requires several steps. Physicists at the University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE) have now filed a patent application for a process that produces highly active and long-term stable catalyst material in a single step.

Haldor Topsoe has plans to build a 10 kg/hour methanol plant to demonstrate the company’s electrified and extremely compact e SMR Methanol technology for cost-competitive production of sustainable methanol from biogas.

How do you survive as a German machine builder for over a century and a half? “There are two essential ingredients: innovation and quality,” says Stephan Brand, Vice President Marketing & Product Management at Aerzen. He believes that the chemicals market is a particularly challenging industry.

With a massive 21 million dollar (£16.7 million) investment, Tata Chemicals Europe has plans to build a Carbon Capture and Utilisation Plant in the United Kingdom. The facility aims to reduce the firm’s carbon emissions and also ensure a sustainable supply of carbon dioxide.