Japanese Companies Toray Industries and Mitsui Sugar are going to establish in Thailand a joint venture for seeking business opportunities for manufacturing system of cellulosic sugar, a raw material used for producing various biochemical products, from the surplus bagasse generated at sugar mills.

Measuring turbidity with advanced optical infrared (IR) sensing and intelligent electronics, Electro Chemical Devices' Triton TR6 is a versatile solution for environmental monitoring, water treatment or backwash control applications.

Pharmaceutical manufacturing requires strict monitoring and control; product leakage or contamination can cost the manufacturer dearly, and stringent measures are in place to keep these occurrences to a minimum. An important element of process control — not just in the manufacture of pharmaceuticals but in chemical processing generally — is overpressure relief.

Evonik plans to expand its production capacities for transparent polyamides of the Trogamid CX brand at the Marl Chemical Park. The company announced that the reason for this was the growing global demand for high-performance polymers.

When considering a pneumatic conveying system, the simple purchase price is no longer the most important business criterion. Today, and especially in the chemical industry, the analysis of costs and benefits goes far deeper: More important than a supposedly low purchase price are total cost of ownership and overall equipment effectiveness — especially when dealing with the transfer of powders and bulk materials.

The refinery catalyst market is set to grow from its current market value of more than 4 billion dollars to over 5.5 billion dollars by 2025; according to a report by Global Market Insights.

Fluor Corporation was awarded a contract by Empresa Nacional del Petróleo (Enap) for the engineering, procurement and construction of a new process unit at its Biobío refinery in Chile.

Emerging functionalities such as voice, video and a range of mobility applications are beginning to appear in the plant environment; unleashing new opportunities for collaboration throughout the manufacturing environment. Today, a common control platform deployed plant-wide can reduce integration costs, time to market and maintenance costs.

Emco Chemical Distributors relies on Wilden Pro-Flo Shift Advanced Fit Series and Hygienic Series air-operated double diaphragm (AODD) pumps to transfer liquids at its new facility in Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin/USA. Learn how their innovative air control valves provide big savings in compressed air consumption compared to other types of AODD pump.

Your problem: you have to distill. It might be 100 milliliters per day or 100 liters per hour, solvents, flavorings, acids, crude oil fractions or simply water. Distillation experts Iludest/i-Fischer tailor distillation plants precisely to the specific application. PROCESS paid a visit to the “master column builders”.