In the biotech and pharmaceutical industries, the requirements on flexibility, safety and automation are increasing in order to implement hygiene and reproducibility more efficiently. Within this context, Vega level and pressure sensors can make a decisive contribution.

Industries looking to adopt advanced digital technologies for their production plants will find augmented reality to be a real gamechanger. Plant maintenance with the help of remote offsite-experts as well as training activities for newly joined engineers or technical maintenance staff can be carried out without any difficulty with the help of this technology. The biggest plus points of using augmented reality: Reduced costs, reduced plant downtime, access to remote offsite-experts in real time and saving valuable time.

Total Energies has collaborated with Air Liquide to decarbonize Total Energies’ refining and petrochemical platform in Normandy. Under the terms of the agreement, Air Liquide will supply green and low carbon hydrogen to the project.

Total Energies has plans to construct a new mechanical recycling unit for plastic waste at its Grandpuits site in France. The new facility is expected to produce 30,000 tons a year of high value-added compounds and will contain up to 50 % recycled plastic material.

The European Chemical Industry Council (Cefic) has recently reported that the EU chemical production is expected to decline by about 8 % in 2023 as compared to the previous year.

Sumitomo Chemical and Ginkgo Bioworks have plans to expand their existing biomanufacturing partnership by developing functional chemicals with synthetic biology. For this project, Ginkgo Bioworks will utilize its strain design technology to develop a microbial strain and related fermentation process to produce the target molecule, while Sumitomo Chemical will develop the manufacturing process and its scale-up for commercialization.

Shin-Etsu Chemical has plans to expand its silicones business by further investing an additional amount of 650 million euros into it. The move is in line with the growing demand for eco-friendly silicones in the region.

GEA’s carbon capture portfolio has the capacity to decarbonize carbon-intensive industries such as cement both swiftly and cost-effectively. A number of trials have been conducted at a pilot plant at Phoenix Zementwerke in Beckum, Germany and it has demonstrated that CO2 emissions in cement production can be reduced by 90 %.

Producers of food and household chemicals have to protect their products on the pallet in a energy and resource efficient way. To achieve this, they must be able to process more films made from recyclates. The new, modularized high-performance packaging system from Beumer proofs, that operators can combine both goals.

R. Stahl has introduced its latest socket panels for wall installation which can be used in hazardous areas. With this, the firm has expanded its range of socket panels.