BASF wants to forge digital links to connect manufacturers, service provide. The BASF 4.0 initiative will catapult the giant chemical company into the digital age. Included is a project with SAP built around a database which will be shared by suppliers, engineering partners and maintenance partners. In the future, information will flow in real time over digital communication links.

Claris Lifesciences India (Claris) has announced the completion of the transfer of its Infusion business for India and Emerging Markets to the Joint Venture (Claris-Otsuka) with Otsuka Pharmaceutical Factory Japan (OPF) and Mitsui Japan (Mitsui).

Saltigo, a wholly owned subsidiary of specialty chemicals company Lanxess, celebrates 50 years of operation of the Central Organics Pilot Plant (Zeto), which accounts for around one-fifth of the company's total capacity. During this anniversary celebration, work was completed on the extensive expansion and modernization project started in 2015.

The Belgian province of Noord-Brabant, TNO, ECN and the Flemish Vito are investing € 10 million ($ 11,9 million) in the development of bio-aromatics for the chemical industry.

KBR has been awarded an ammonia plant revamp contract by Rashtriya Chemicals & Fertilizers (RCF).

From shipyards to life-sciences: Automation manufacturers benefit from Korea’s industrial transition – Since the 1960s, Korea has seen an unparalleled transition from an agricultural country to one of Asia’s technology trailblazers. The technological edge secured the “land of the morning calm” a place among the world’s leading shipuilders, cars and electronics manufacturers and plant engineering specialists. After the shipping crisis and the declining crude price, Korea’s multinationals have set their sighths of life-sciences and process engineering. To promote the transition from shipyards to lab-floor, process understanding and state of the art technology are becoming the key enablers.

... the answers are unequivocal. Reliability is the top priority in the process industry.

New megaplant–project in the US: Chemicals and fertilizers company Borealis and Agrifos join forces for a new world-scale ammonia project through Gulf Coast Ammonia in Texas.

Lanxess invests € 20 million in a new plant for high-performance plastics in Changzhou, China. From Q2 2019, the compounding plant is to produce up to 25,000 tons of Durethan- and Pocan-branded high-tech plastics for the automotive sector and the electric and electronics industry.

Microwave digestion for the analysis of PM10 fraction of airborne particles — Particulate matter and suspended particles are a major health risk and must be reatined and controlled thoroughly. Monitoring them is, nevertheless, not easy. Elaborate digestion methods are needed to ensure reliable and robust retaining and determination o these substances...