When eating a muesli bar, one doesn’t normally think of explosions – And yet, the f&b industry is full of explosion hazards. Reason enough for foods giant Nestlé to consider an up-to-date explosion prevention solution. The result is both safe and tasty...

Schütz Industrial Packaging presented a new earthed plastic pallet designed especially for the use in hazardous areas at the Interpack trade fair. This application was previously reserved chiefly for steel pallets.

Songwon Industrial announced that its new pilot plant in Panoli (Gujarat), India has come onstream. The plant serves the country's demand specialty chemicals.

Wison Engineering's non-wholly owned subsidiary in China has been awarded a contract by Zhejiang Petrochemical to deliver nine ethylene cracking furnaces for a 4,000 kt/yr refining and chemical integrated complex.

Kemira, a global chemicals company serving customers in water-intensive industries, announced the opening of its new AKD emulsion and cationic rosin production lines at its production site in Nanjing, Jiangsu province in China.

Double ball-valve dry disconnects set new standard in chemical handling — Operators that handle hazardous liquids or toxic chemicals have high demands for loading systems, hoses, pipes and couplings. But how to design such a system? Are traditional bayonet-and-plunger styles still the go-to-solution for chemicals or has the time of new coupling technology finally come?

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Environmental & Chemical Engineering has received an order to build a municipal solid waste incineration plant in Shanghai, China.

Air Products has formed a new joint venture with Linde North America named East Coast Nitrogen (ECN) and will build a new 1,100 tons per day world-scale air separation unit and industrial gas liquefier in Glenmont, New York.

In the production of high-quality monocalcium phosphate (MCP), the role of high-capacity technology is as important as the quality of the raw materials. The Russian producer of animal feed and fertilizers Balakovo Mineralnie Udobrenia (BMU) had to meet a challenge on a large scale: to find a suitable mixing system that ensures a production of 20 tons MCP per hour.

Next bombshell at Ineos: The Swiss chemical company delivered plans to expand its business in Europe strongly and with high investments. Planned are a new world-scale unit and massive capacity increases at two sites.