What are your natural inclinations? Do you feel more comfortable with a process control system that has a proven track record, or are you by nature receptive to advanced developments and new approaches such as model predictive control, soft sensors and real time optimization? No matter what your natural tendencies may be, this year’s Namur General Meeting broadened the horizon for conservative users and innovators alike.

The biggest glue factory in the world starts up the production line: After inauguration in September, the new plant of Henkel expands the company's production capacity in a major emerging market and delivers innovative adhesive technologies more quickly to customers in China and the Asia-Pacific region...

JGC will provide its proprietary hydrogen sulfide and sodium sulfide production process technology for customers in China: The Japanese company has signed a license agreement with with Zhejiang Engineering Design, to serve as a proxy for licensing the technology to Chinese clients.

As for any complex process, the devil is in the detail, and, in manufacturing, there are few exceptions. Here is where a system's smallest components can make or break a company's financial targets for success. To improve the operational efficiency of o-rings, gaskets diaphragms, valves and pump stators, perfluoroelastomer seals may be the right choice.

Pluss Polymers, a polymers research and manufacturing company involved in the field of specialty polymeric additives and phase change materials for thermal energy storage, is starting a new manufacturing unit at Bawal in October 2013.

Honeywell has started the production of the proprietary catalysts in China that are used to convert coal into plastics. The company also inaugurated a new research and development and engineering center to support business development and to meet growing engineering and technical service needs throughout Asia.

Organik Kimya is expanding the production capacity of redispersible powder polymers. The investment includes an addition of a second spray dryer to the Tuzla based Orgachem plant, which will be operational by 2020 and will double the current production capacity.

Adisseo announced the construction of a second liquid methionine plant in Nanjing. It will be the company’s third global liquid methionine platform after the first two world-class plants in Burgos, Spain and in Nanjing, China.

Clariant announced the completion of the expansion measures at its industrial facility in Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz, which have resulted in an increase of production capacity by around 15 %.

BASF further expands its long-standing partnership Petronas. The companies want to build World-scale plant for highly reactive polyisobutene at Kuantan/Malaysia.