Schenck Process Food and Performance Materials has officially changed its name to Coperion. The move follows the acquisition of the group of companies by Hillenbrand, the parent company of Coperion.

In June, Germany will once again be the centre of the chemical, pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries worldwide: The 34th Achema will take place from 10 to 14 June 2024 in Frankfurt. The trade fair will be accompanied by a varied and extensive congress programme on all five days.

BASF has plans to sell its flocculants business for mining applications to Solenis. With this divestment, BASF aims to focus on core strategic areas.

With an aim to expand its silicone business and meet the growing demand in China, Shin-Etsu Chemical has decided to develop a new plant for silicone products. The project is scheduled for completion in February 2026.

Nextchem will make use of its Conser Man proprietary technology with an aim to boost efficiency of maleic anhydride production at the existing plant in North America.

CF Industries has awarded a licensing and engineering contract to Topsoe to support a front-end engineering and design study of a new low-carbon ammonia plant in Louisiana, USA.

ABB’s FSS400 Swirl and FSV400 Vortex flowmeters have become the first flowmeters in the market to obtain a Fieldcomm Group Ethernet-APL physical-layer certification. The certification assures product quality for process instrumentation and reliable interoperability throughout industrial communication networks.

OQ Chemicals has resumed operations at its Oberhausen and Marl plants in Germany following an unpredictable shutdown. The firm overcame a disruption at a raw material supplier's synthesis gas plant.

Process excellence — Fette Compacting has been scoring points in the market for a long time. Now the market leader in tablet presses is going through a reinvention and presenting itself to the pharmaceutical, nutrition and chemical industry as a process partner for powder formulation and tableting. Why this is the way forward for the machine manufacturer?

Cemvita has surpassed its 2029 goal of producing up to 500 barrels per day of sustainable oil from its first commercial plant by quadrupling its planned output. The firm has unlocked new efficient technologies that make this possible.