Nalco, a subsidiary of Ecolab, plans a new polymer production facility at the company’s complex in Garyville, Louisiana. The 300,000 square-foot facility will produce dry polymer products for use in removing contaminants from wastewater, increasing production efficiency in the paper industry and recovering minerals in the mining industry.

Industrial valves in textile chemistry—A variety of different valves lead to widely differentiated overhaul expenditure and is associated with an extensive stock of spare parts. In case of a textile producer it was possible to focus essentially on compact ball valves and V–port segment ball valves.

Big Pharma has set its sights on china: Managers of major pharma players expect boom on Chinese biologics sector, as government pushes the branch to the forefront. Will the country be on-par with western companies within five years?

The continuous online analysis of oils and fats in waste water is known to be one of the most toughest applications. Many oil-in-water analysers have trouble handling this highly contaminated oily and fatty waste water. Not so for the QuickTOC (Total Organic Carbon) analyser from LAR.

The Berlin-based manufacturer of laboratory measuring instruments Knauer Wissenschaftliche Geräte recently reported that its high-pressure metering pumps played an important role in the development of the groundbreaking new manufacturing process of methane sulfonic acid (MSA) directly from methane and sulfur trioxide, which was successfully realised by researchers from Duisburg's Grillo-Werke.

Vibrating fork technology has shown its value and reliability in a range of critical level monitoring applications. This article explains how frequency monitoring functionality provided by Wireless-Hart vibrating fork switches can support an increased range of applications that help improve safety and process performance.

The 37-acre plant is operational and is expected to increase the firm’s global carbon fiber production capacity. The facility has also generated 370 jobs for the locals.

Aker Solutions has been awarded a five-year agreement to supply brownfield modifications, maintenance and operations support for BP's Greater Plutonio and PSVM fields offshore Angola.

Sometimes, beautiful products need dirty processes. Elaborate jewelry for example, might be treated with aggressive tarnision fluids. The consumer does not know — but the manufacturer should. Learn what to expect when pumping abrasive fluids and why solid body plastic AODD pumps might do the trick.

The chemical industry could be the first to feel the immediate impact of Britain’s possible vote on exiting the EU: recent studies show that the branch could be affected by a seven billion pounds loss in exports, making it the hardest hit of all British industries…