Jacobs Engineering Group received a five-year contract renewal from Shell Canada to provide mechanical maintenance and turnaround services on the company’s Scotford site located in Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta, Canada.

Arlanxeo signed an agreement with Saudi Aramco Products Trading company pertaining to the marketing and sales of EPDM (Ethylene Propylene Diene Monomer) rubber. The company will start to supply the new EPDM grades within the first half of 2018 under its own Keltan trademark with the extension KSA, that represents the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

The Red Line of Mei Valvole offers a wide range of products that intended especially for marine and petrochemical sector, Oil&Gas industry and for general industrial plants. The Line includes Swing Check Valves, Spring Check Valves, Double Check Valves, Disc Check Valves, Counterweight Check Valves, Wafer and Lug Butterfly Valves.

German chemicals behemoth BASF has been the victim of scam accounts and billing frauds: Four employees of the chemical company are said to have cooperated with external firms to settle services that were never provided. This caused damage in the tens of millions.

In order to meet rising hygiene standards as well as retain the freshness of food products for a longer period, the food packaging sector is always on the look-out for new packaging materials and technologies. Today, multi-layer films are preferred over single-layer packaging due to several factors. Read on to know more…

Tata Chemicals recently opened its state-of-the-art Innovation Centre in Pune. This center will act as the company's technology and innovation hub to support Tata Chemical’s growth in various sectors such as wellness foods, agriculture, chemistry solutions, the company states.

Bestgrand Chemical Group has announced the successful start-up of its wet gas sulfuric acid (WSA) plant — the world’s largest with a production capacity of 300,000 tons of sulfuric acid per year. The plant will treat 131,000 tons of acid gas over-the-fence per year from the neighboring world-scale refinery plant operated by a joint venture between CNOOC (China National Offshore Oil Corporation) and Shell in Huizhou City, China.

Advanced Process Control (APC) helps companies optimise the production process. We show, how APC offers refiners and petrochemicals companies a chance to maximise profitability. Improved automated software tools eliminate waste, reduce the overall energy cost in the manufacturing process and improve asset efficiency, product quality and yield.

ePTFE gasket tapes for high chemical resistance—The connections to shell and tube heat exchangers pose immense challenges for the seals that are used because of both the chemically aggressive media and the frequent temperature load changes. Despite its excellent chemical resistance, polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) is not typically suitable as a sealing material in this case because the creep tendency of this material jeopardizes a reliable seal.

High-Performance FFKM Sealing Technology for Pharmaceutical, Food and Beverage Industries —Chemical, Pharmaceutical, Food and Beverage industry processes can be mighty tough on seals. Their rough conditions and exacting regulations keep scientists on their toes looking for solutions to meet even more difficult demands. Perfluoroelastomers, also known as FFKMs, are establishing themselves as very useful materials in these fields.