Sadara has signed an agreement to supply Sadig-Ilco, a new Saudi-German joint venture that produces various specialty chemicals based on Ethylene Oxide (EO) and Propylene Oxide (PO).

In developing countries, demand for liquid sugars is growing. For a customer in Brazil, a pH measurement solution that would tolerate the harsh process conditions was essential. Mettler Toledo provided them a robust, dependable system that requires very little maintenance.

Linde will build and operate a state–of–the–art hydrogen plant at Jilin, China. There, companies like Evonik and Huntsman are currently planning a new chemical hub for the production of polymer feedstock.

Researchers at Osaka University have developed a new catalytic system for efficiently splitting water and making hydrogen with energy from normal sunlight. Their study was recently reported in Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

Oxea boosts its petrochemicals business in the US: The global chemical company has started the basic engineering for a 2-Ethylhexanol (2-EH) and a Propanol unit at its world-scale production plant at Bay City, Texas.

Water, Pharmaceuticals and polymers are pushing the demand for chlorine. Especially output in Europe grew considerably, despite the end of mercury based production in December.

Akzo Nobel Specialty Chemicals has announced an investment of $ 14.65 million in the capacity expansion and upgrade of its organic peroxides facility in Los Reyes, Mexico .

From Steuler KCH comes a new flexible and practical lining system: Bekasteel. Made of stainless steel it is perfectly suited for use in areas that are subjected to high thermal, chemical and mechanical stress. It can be applied in numerous ways for discharge and collecting basins, as well as for reliably protecting storage tanks, collecting pits and drainage channels.

Japanese Toyo Engineering taps the Indonesian market by acquiring vast shares of regional engineering company IKPT. Indonesia, currently the world's fourth most populated state, is expected to invest large sums in infrastructure and industrial development in the near future.

Anton Paar’s new sensors consist of instrumentation for density measurement, sound velocity measurement, and combined density and sound velocity measurement.