Yokogawa Germany will present automation solutions for digital transformation at Achema. The company will focus on all key aspects of automated processing plants in the chemical and pharmaceutical industries. Yokogawa will also showcase solutions for ‘modular automation’ at its ZVEI partner Stand as well as its own portfolio of transmitters at the shared Profibus exhibition space.

Evonik Industries and the Chinese company Wynca have agreed to form a joint venture. The new company, in which Evonik will hold 60 %, will produce fumed silica. The product is used in transparent silicones, coatings and paints, modern adhesives as well as non-combustible high-performance insulation materials.

Vietnam has shown significant demand for polyurethanes and is one of the fastest growing countries in Asia Pacific. Hence, the firm has launched a facility which will comprise production of polyurethanes and advanced materials; R&D capabilities; a technical service center; warehouse and distribution space along with a commercial office.

Safe, secure and sustainable – The ideal production process ticks all these boxes. With rising energy prices and an increasing awareness of environmental and personal safety, this year's Process Management Academy in Antwerp focused on 'Excellence in Safety and Sustainability'. Nearly 120 participants discussed cyber security, process safety, brand protection and energy management.

“The scope of our solution is expanding,” said Takashi Nishijima, president and CEO of Yokagawa Electric Corp. during an afternoon interview with Achema Daily.

The work on an interface to perfect Open Plant/Comos integration has been in full swing for a year now. How close are we to seeing the results? –We thought it was time to ask the question, and so at this year’s Hanover Fair we caught up with Anne-Marie Walters, Global Marketing Director at Bentley Industrial Process & Operations.

Yokogawa Electric Corporation has entered into a strategic agreement with Chevron USA to resell Chevron’s proprietary petroleum supply chain planning software Petro.

How do you live up to the promise of Operational Excellence? That was the theme for Yokogawa’s fourth EMEA user conference, which took place in Barcelona/Spain in September this year.

The world's biggest plant for neodymium polybutadiene rubber (Nd-PBR) takes the next step: Lanxess announced its € 200 million project to be well underway. Groundbreaking could be celebrated in September, CEO Heitmann said.

The chemical park management company Currenta is a joint venture which was set up by Bayer and Lanxess. The company launched the A++ Efficiency Class climate protection program in April 2008. Currenta manages it’s “chempark” with sites in Leverkusen, Dormagen and Krefeld-Uerdingen, and it sees the program as an opportunity to substantially reduce carbon dioxide emissions. PROCESS asked Dr. Klaus Schäfer, Chairman of the Executive Board at Currenta, about some of the details.