Sintered metal filter elements have been successfully used in different applications for years. Asymmetric metallic membrane elements have various advantages over standard sintered metal filter cartridges. Here’s an overview of how the overall performance of these filters has been improved.

Some valve makers fear emerging markets, others place their bets on them. Competition from companies from threshold countries is growing rapidly, yet at the same time demand for machinery and plants from industrialized Western countries is high in order to maintain the upswing. One thing is certain—success has pampered emerging markets in the past years, even when other states were slightly weakened.

In the age of digitization Chemical Distribution is facing new challenge. International trading platform like Alibaba and Amazon Business are changing the rules. Now, the German start up Pinpools has created an independent B2B platform to connect chemical business.

Shaw divests its problem child: The US engineering company announced to sell its energy and chemical (E&C) division to French Technip for US $ 300 million. The company's CEO Jim Bernhard believes that the selling of this long time problematic business, that only moved back into profit this year, would help Shaw to focus on its core industries.

Beumer Group will exhibit its expertise as a system provider for complete high-capacity packaging lines at Powtech. The Group optimises the performance of each machine, its components and the high-level controls to ensure high throughput of the lines for (petro) chemical products and building materials.

Sourcing and retaining talent has been a challenge especially to the chemical and process industries, which deal with hazards and risks daily. Poised to grow at 11 – 15 per cent, with a future employment potential of five million jobs, the industries deal with this challenge through a systematic competency development – A strategy to make new talent ready and refresh existing practitioners to update,aiming at an empowered work place free of injuries...

India is a power-starved country, whereas the country’s biomass resources (otherwise waste) hold a great potential to address the challenge. About 15 GW of electricity generating capacity could be achieved through adding cogeneration capabilities in various industries including sugar mills, breweries, textile mills, distilleries, fertilizer plants, pulp and paper mills and rice mills.

Gharda Plastics, the performance polymers division of Gharda Chemicals, launched its specialty lubricious solution for industrial and business appliances. Now the company wants to boost it's polymers production capacity with a new process plant...

Haver & Boecker picks up on market trends and puts new demands on containers in order to conserve resources.

IPB China will take place from 19 to 21 October at the Shanghai Convention & Exhibition Centre of International Sourcing and is regarded as major gathering for the bulk solids and process engineering sector in the Asia-Pacific region.