Package unit integration: how do you assemble a modular system? — Package units, modular system design and process skids are hot topics at the moment. Thinking in systems is becoming a familiar soundbite in the component manufacturing and chemical industries, but the building block approach is not making as much headway as had been expected. Interfaces to existing automation and control systems are lacking. An overview.

The UK government grant Ineos an infrastructure loan guarantee worth € 285 million or £ 230 million. This allows Ineos to raise the money necessary to build a new terminal to import and store ethane for Grangemouth as North Sea availability declines.

Chemieanlagenbau Chemnitz (CAC) has completed the construction of a turnkey sodium hypochlorite plant in Russia. The plant with an annual capacity of 50,000 t/a was built in Moscow and replaces chlorine gas previously used in drinking water treatment by sodium hypochlorite.

Carbon black is used for tire manufacturing, as a pigment for plastics, paints and coatings. In the currently released second issue of the Market Study Carbon Black, Ceresana's market researchers forecast a dynamic growth of global demand for Carbon Black. By 2022, its volume is expected to rise to more than 15 million tonnes.

You need a technology that filters highly and low-viscous media or removes pharmaceutical residues in drinking water? You want to know, how to reduce the energy consumption of membrane bioreactors in wastewater treatment? Prior to this year’s Filtech (October 22–24, Wiesbaden/Germany), the largest filtration event worldwide, PROCESS asked manufacturers of filtration technologies.

The development of the petrochemical industry in the Middle East speeds up. Now Shell and Qatar Petroleum agreed to cooperate on a future world scale petrochemical complex in Ras Laffan/Qatar.

FCE Pharma closes the successful first edition of Powtech Arena in Brazil: Cycle of lectures brought to Brazil the expertise of the main world event in the segment of powder and granulates.

Anyone who works in the chemical industry is familiar with the problem: aggressive media and high temperatures put vessels, valves, fittings and internal components under extreme stress. It is important to select the right material to ensure that the equipment does not become the expected point of failure in the process chain.

Air Liquide and major Korean chemical company Kumho Mitsui Chemical (KMCI) expanded their cooperation with a recently signed long-term contract, according to which the industrial gases company will increase its supply of both hydrogen and carbon monoxide at the Yeosu industrial complex.

Vertellus, a global specialty chemical provider, has opened a second facility in India. The newly opened Mumbai office, will function primarily as a business office for the company. In addition to this office, the company also maintains manufacturing operations in Vapi.