To cater to the growing India and South-East Asia markets, Novozymes will build a new production and supply chain facility near Mumbai.

Orienting on the facets of Green Chemistry and Engineering, Director API-R&D, Dr Reddy’s Laboratories, India, Dr Rakeshwar Bandichhor details why its practice is encouraging and elaborates the significance of academic-industry partnership for a healthy, innovative environment in the Indian pharma sector. Excerpts of the interview…

Operational Excellence is high on the agenda at many companies. Production process optimization presents new challenges, but it also offers new opportunities. The following article describes the Bayer Technology Services approach.

Jacobs Engineering Group has received a contract from MEGlobal to provide engineering, procurement and construction management services as well as a contract from ExxonMobil Chemical Company for their Beaumont facility.

Foster Wheeler to join one of Europe's biggest refinery projects: The engineering experts will provide engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) works for the Antwerp Northwest Europe Resid Upgrade Project of Exxon Mobil.

Dow Dupont's board of directors has approved the previously announced separation of their Materials Science Division. As of April 1, the division is to become new Dow and an independent, publicly traded company.

Petronas has signed an agreement with the Sarawak State Government concerning a methanol plant project and with Huchems for the supply of natural gas.

Tight deadlines, extreme quality standards and massive cost pressure—these are the demands which currently dictate pharmaceutical plant engineering. The new but familiar market of the future is biotechnology, although chemical syntheses are also back in demand.

Situated in Felling, Akzo Nobel’s new campus intends to deliver superior innovations and products for the marine and oil and gas industries. A new application and testing laboratory is one of the main features of the campus.

The world’s population is expanding rapidly, and so too are its energy requirements. Providing food for almost seven billion people, and reducing our dependence on crude oil by using plant-based energy sources, require the targeted use of fertilizers. The production of nitrogen-based fertilizers is a chemically complex process in which heat is repeatedly transferred between the process media. As the world’s leading fertilizer plant engineering company, Uhde relies mainly on plate heat exchangers from GEA Ecoflex.