The Pörner Group is a complete engineering service provider. Making use of their Austrian-German culture and taking a personal approach to each project, the company ensures that the customer is supported from the very start of the project.

Speciality materials company Celanese and Mitsui of Japan plan a joint venture for methanol production at Celanese’s integrated chemical plant in Bishop, Texas.

BASF opens its ffith and largest so far construction chemicals plant in Asia at Nellore, India (Andhra Pradesh, South-East India). The new facility shall support regional customers with high-performance construction materials, the company explained.

Wether tracking proteins, DNA or endotoxins, adsorber capsules play an important role in all kinds of chromatography analytics. Yet, impurities can affect the precision of the measurement significantly. Now, a new dsevelopment effectively removes various impurities from protein feedstocks and are available in lab and process scale.

The shale gas bonanza in the US is inundating European and especially German industrial plant manufacturers with new projects. But the challenges associated with increasing project size affect not only EPC suppliers but also owner engineers at chemical companies.

Belgian based chemicals company Solvay announced plans to build a new vanillin production facility in Zhenjiang City, Jiangsu Province, PR China. With the new plant, the company expects to boost its production capacities for this agent by 40% as well as enabling the Group to better serve the fast-growing Asian market.

Though latexes are very versatile and can be used to enhance a product’s performance characteristics, this article will identify and explain why one type of pumping technology— air-operated double -diaphragm, also known as AODD—is ideal for the demands of latex-handling.

Fast and easy data integration into control systems: wireless communications in Brownfield applications—When it comes to using wireless technology in the process industry, system operating companies have objected for a few years now that wireless communication is too insecure in terms of reliability and security. In addition, they believe that data is transmitted too slowly. But the times have changed!

German based speciality chemicals giant Lanxess plans to streamline its rubber chemicals production by shutting down a South African plant and bundle activities in the US and Europe.

Ascend Performance Materials announced its plans to increase production capacity across its intermediate chemicals and polymers portfolio by 10 to 15 % to support the continued growth of its customers.