Clariant has signed a global licensing agreement with RTI International granting them exclusive rights of supply for their solid sorbent material which is used in warm gas desulfurization (WDP).

French bioprocess specialist Global Bioenergies has successfully converted renewable resources into an oil-like liquid fuel. The conversion via isobutene results in a light, oil-like liquid with qualities that are comparable to fossil oils.

Is it the end of the oil era? A vision for the decarbonisation of the chemical industry — Chemistry could become almost neutral to climate by 2050, as recent studies show. The price would be, however, enormous: Up to a tenfold of the current investment volume per year had to be pumped into alternative raw materials and process development. Is the dream of green chemicals over before it even began? How realistic is the decoupling of fossil raw materials overall? And what could be done now?

Permanently magnetically coupled centrifugal pumps with borosilicate canister—The most central topic in the development of magnetically coupled pumps is the improvement of energy efficiency. Newly developed magnetically coupled centrifugal pumps with a borosilicate canister are an energy-efficient alternative to all conventional pumps with mechanical seals.

The specialty materials company Celanese sees the growing demand for low-VOC (volatile organic compounds) paints in Southeast Asia and will meet this with a new vinyl acetate ethylene (VAE) emulsions production unit.

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.