ASK Chemicals, celebrated the official opening of its new plant in the Port of Bilbao, Spain. The company presented its new facilities to its guests and hosted speeches on their latest technologies.

Due to the ever-expanding functionality of modern process control systems, their implementation no longer remains simple. To leverage the benefits of productivity enhancement tools available in the latest process control packages, a clear and complete software functional requirement specification document must be developed before configuring any process control system. Read on to know more…

Solid metal connections are rugged, boast long lifetimes, and are easy to clean. Read more about safe connections that fulfil stringent hygienic requirements of the food industry in this article.

Antwerp Port Authority and FPIM (Federal Participation & Investment Company) are to jointly acquire a stake in Nxt Port, the digital data platform for the port community. The port authority also announced that it would acquire the Nationale Maatschappij der Pijpleidingen (NMP) from its current shareholders Ackermans & van Haaren and Electrabel. With the takeover the port authority will gain ownership and control of 720 km of pipelines.

Sumitomo Chemical has begun construction of a plant at Sumika Electronic Materials, a recently-incorporated company in Changzhou City, China, to produce high-purity chemicals for semiconductors. The new facility, the company's second high-purity chemicals facility in China after its first plant in Xi’an, is scheduled to start commercial production in March 2019.

Sadara signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Gulf Interchem, a Bahrain-based technology company, for a by-products upgrade project based in Plas Chem Park, a collaborative industrial park between Sadara and the Royal Commission for Jubail and Yanbu (RCJY) in Jubail Industrial City II.

Total has inaugurated the new units at its Antwerp integrated refining & petrochemicals platform, which have progressively started up in the last few months. This event marks the completion of the upgrade program launched in 2013 of one of the largest and most efficient integrated refining & petrochemicals platforms in Europe.

Sadara, a joint-venture company of Saudi Aramco and Dow, has signed a long-term supply agreement with Energy Chemical Sources (ECSC), a newly formed joint venture between Halliburton and TAQA. Sadara will supply ECSC with chemical products for the next 20 years.

Mitsubishi Chemical and Asahi Kasei join forces for cracker operations in Japan: Both firms agreed on forming a new joint venture for the operation of a unified naphtha cracker in Mizushima - the old sites of the individual firms will be idled...

Bayer bags first order for new ODC chlorine production technology from China. Now the German chemicals company also hopes for the coveted German Industry Innovation Prize.