The Emulsion Polymers business of Celanese Corporation (NYSE: CE), a global technology and specialty materials company, formally dedicated its expanded vinyl acetate/ethylene (VAE) unit in Nanjing, China.

Evonik Industries has increased its production capacity for the pharmaceutical amino acid glycine by 50 percent. This was achieved only by efficiency gains in the production process.

SK Global Chemical, one of the leading chemical companies in South Korea will be taking over Arkema’s functional polyolefins business. The move is in line with Arkema’s shift towards specialty chemicals and advanced materials.

Metathesis plays a key role in oleochemistry to make renewable resources usable for the chemical industry. The metathesis catalysts used for this purpose must be robust and highly active to convert the raw material qualities, which are subject to frequent fluctuations and occasional contamination. New catalysts can solve this difficult task.

In addition to its range of instruments based on the thermal and Coriolis measuring principle, Bronkhorst has introduced a unique series of low-flow ultrasonic flow meters and controllers for liquids.

Since the company was founded in 1959, the signals have been continuously set to growth at Vega. Today, the company generates turnover of around 420 million euros. This is thanks to the fact that it has concentrated on two core technologies: level and pressure measurements. But it is in part also down to a very unique corporate culture.

In all segments of the water and wastewater industry, there is still plenty of scope for innovations, as the sector will be amply demonstrating at this year’s IFAT. The exhibitors will come up with plenty of new ideas in water and wastewater treatment. Here are just some examples …

Having completed its factory revamp in Perm, Halo Polymer announces the start of the R-14 manufacturing, which allowed practical doubling of volume of the finished product output, bringing it up to 20 tonnes per month.

Oxea announced that its specialty esters plant in Nanjing, China, is now mechanically complete. After a construction period of slightly more than fifteen months the new state-of-the-art plant is currently in the commissioning and start-up phase. The new plant is Oxea’s first production site in Asia.

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awards the Nobel Prize for Chemistry 2019 to John B. Goodenough, M. Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino for the development of lithium-ion batteries.