Lyondell Basell, one of the world’s largest plastics, chemical, and refining companies, appointed Jeff A. Kaplan as their new executive vice president and chief legal officer.

From mining big data to preventive error detection – This year’s Process Management Academy (PMA) presented by ARC Advisory Group and PROCESS was focused on the more holistic approach of process and asset management. But, despite all technological developments, people remain the factor that makes or breaks a given system…

The food vs. fuel debate has cast a dark shadow over the potentials of biofuels - now second generation processes aim to untap to huge heaps of biogenic residues that forestry and agriculture produce. One of them, the Bioliq process of KIT and Air Liquide, announces anew milestone; The start up of the second stage of its pilot plant...

BASF reduces Board of Executive Directors from seven to six members BASF has announced that its Board of Executive Directors will be reduced from seven to six members as of January 1, 2020. Board member Sanjeev Gandhi will leave the company at his own request.

Solutions competence for fluid engineering challenges — The company Bürkert Fluid Control Systems has kept media, processes and ideas flowing for over 70 years. How do they do that? By never losing sight of the requirements of plant operators and starting to find new approaches where others run out of ideas.

Biodiesel is produced from raw plant oils. The by-product is glycerin. This can be sold in a freshly extracted form or refined in various grades of purity. In order to extract glycerin from the waste product compound, it is necessary to ensure the compound has to be discharged safely. The focus lies on a slide gate valve suitable for any challenging application.

Batteries are the key technology for the electromobility of the future. Over the next five years, BASF will be investing a three-digit million euro sum in researching, developing and the production of battery materials. Part of the investment is being channeled into the construction of a production plant for advanced cathode materials.

The collaboration between Dow and Evonik aims to bring the unique technology to market maturity. For this purpose, the firms have also planned to build a pilot plant in Hanau, Germany which is expected to be constructed by 2020.

Giacomo Sasselli will join the leadership team of Korean Songwon Industrial as the company's Executive Vice President for Corporate Manufacturing and Engineering.

Uhde Inventa-Fischer has been awarded a major contract from the Polish chemical group Grupa Azoty to build a polyamide 6 plant. The multiline plant will be built at the company’s headquarters in Tarnow, Poland, and will have a total capacity of 80,000 metric tons per year of polyamide 6 for film applications and engineering plastics.