No rest for Akzo Nobel: After having refused a 26-million-takeover offer from PPC, CEO Ton Büchner and Antony Burgmans, chairman of the supervisory board, leave the company. The new management now prepares for the spin-off of the Specialty Chemicals branch.

Breaking up soft agglomerates, dewatering slurries or screen bulk products for pharmaceuticals productions - centrifugal screeners are versatile tools. Kason now presents the Centri-Shifter, a new centrifugal screener with sturdy performance and good hygienic properties.

Within the $ 6 billion petrochemical investment on the US Gulf, Chevron Phillips Chemicals has selected Audubon Engineering solutions for a main contractor framework agreement.

Chemical company Oxea announced plans to build a production plant for plasticisers and oxo derivatives in Nanjing China.

Akzo Nobel's Specialty Chemicals business is investing more than € 4 million (approx. $ 4.72 million) to increase production capacity in Sweden for its Levasil CC-branded product line of patented surface modified colloidal silica.

The global chemical company Oxea has entered into a cooperation with a German partner to produce dioctyl terephthalate (DOTP), a general purpose non-ortho-phthalate plasticizer, in Europe.

In the fast-paced pharmaceutical market, automation is an important trend more so because the pharmaceutical industry is highly regulated as public health safety is of primary importance. The article takes a look at how automation technologies in the pharma sector help enhance the productivity of companies thereby increasing the safety quotient among the users.

Research into the cause of fires involving toluene has always unearthed one certain fact, which is that devastating results are inevitable if there is an electrostatic charge. But why does the chemical ignite so quickly?

Evonik Industries is presenting new Sepuran hollow fibers for efficient, energy-saving separation of gas mixtures.

Thick and dirty process fluids can clog heat exchangers and cause costly downtime in a variety of industry sectors. Alfa Laval has engineered a family of heat exchangers that can help. Designed specifically for handling media with coarse particles, fibers and solids, the Wide Gap100 gasketed plate heat exchanger from Alfa Laval reduces complications due to fouling by using wide distances between plates and highly turbulent flow.