Almatec has extended its line of solid plastic C-Series Air-Operated Double-Diaphragm (AODD) Pumps to include new C 40 (1-1/2”) and C 50 (2”) models.

The 750,000 tonne/year Ethylene Glycol facility is the first of its kind unit for MEGlobal in the USA. The company’s scope of work for the project involves the installation of equipment, steel and piping for the process unit.

Safety first: Chemical engineers working in safety can benefit from a new seminar by IChemE on the implementation of the Seveso lll European directive that comes into force in 2015.

Exxon Mobil starts up a new 2.6 million tons per year steamcracker, the centerpiece of the company’s multi-billion dollar expansion project at its refinery in Singapore. With this large scale project, the company targets the production of specialty grade metallocene polymers in Asia...

Technip was awarded engineering and procurement contracts by Westlake Chemical Corporation (WLK) for the expansion and modernization of the ethylene cracking furnaces and the recovery section of Westlake’s ethylene plant in Calvert City, Kentucky.

There might be still a market potential for acetic acid: While markets common basic chemical are more or less saturated in Europe and the US, especially China accounts for growing demands states a new GBI study...

Air Products has entered into a JV with the Debang Group to build, own and operate a coal-to-syngas processing facility in the Jiangsu Province of China. Under the terms of the agreement, Air Products will own 80 % of the JV while the remaining 20 % will be with the Debang Group.

All machines that process food have areas that pose different levels of contamination risk: the product-contact area, the splash area and the product-free area. A new series of hygienic sensors by Pepperl+Fuchs tries to meet the requirements for cleanliness and hygiene of the food industries with three different technologies: Ultrasonic, inductive and optical sensors.

Mexichem has recently announced that it has changed its name to Orbia. The company has also introduced its new innovative logo concept – the Impact Mark which aims to measure the firm’s progress against six factors related to people, planet, and profit.

JGC Corporation, Ebara Environmental Plant, Ube Industries, and Showa Denko announced that they started a study of collaboration for an Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) business for plastic waste gasification facilities utilizing the Ebara Ube Process (EUP).