The Dow Chemical Company plans to build a propylene glycol (PG) plant in Map Ta Phut, Thailand, with a production capacity of up to 150 KTA.

Big bags are gaining more visibility as an environment-friendly method for shipping and handling food ingredients. However, several challenges make the handling process difficult. Here are some solutions that can offer a helping hand to users dealing with big bags.

Clariant will work together with Wuxi Xiyuan for two new projects in China. The increasing demand for formaldehyde production technology in the region is due to the technology’s significantly higher efficiency and selectivity as compared to the traditional silver-based method of formaldehyde production.

How can you accelerate the pace in the Chemical Process Industry (CPI) and reduce time to market? The container concept developed within the framework of the Copiride Project provides some answers.

For the production of sulfuric acid and oleum, fertilizers, batteries and detergents as well as oil refining, chemical synthesis, and wastewater processing an accurate and reliable measurement of sulfuric acid is important.

SRF's chemical business has joined a select group of organisations globally to win the coveted Deming Prize. Awarded by the Union of Japanese Scientists and Engineers (JUSE), the Deming Prize award is considered the Nobel Prize equivalent in the world of quality by industry experts.

A new system for cleaning process installations saves valuable raw materials and cleaning agent. Aseptic pigs carry out the work — elaborate and cost-intensive rinsing through of the installation now belongs to the past.

The high-power trunk with FISCO spurs is a de facto standard for PROFIBUS in explosion hazardous areas. Based on this concept, PROFIBUS PA can be installed without difficulty or the need for major cost analysis in the chemical, pharmaceutical, food pro-cessing, biogas, offshore oil production or mining industries.

How can the share of bio-based raw materials used in the European chemical industry be increased to 25 % by 2030? As conclusion of its two-year work, the EU project Road To Bio has published a roadmap that outlines how this goal could be achieved. Based on the analysis of nine product groups, the roadmap identifies opportunities, challenges and actions across industry, policy and civil society to advance the replacement of fossil products by bio-based products.

Solvay and United Chemical Company LLP (UCC) have jointly started to examine the construction of new hydrogen peroxide capacity in Kazakhstan.