The R. Stahl Expert Forum welcomed its participants with a vast wealth of information about guidelines and standards, as well as offering plenty of hands-on knowledge as well — So which sets of technical rules are used as the basis for a hazard assessment? How do you assess the risk posed by a cellphone or by a smart watch with integrated heart rate monitor? And which rules apply in North America? As all-rounders, safety experts need to have the answers to many different questions at their fingertips. We have summarized all their answers for you in this article.

BASF has completed the previously announced sale of its ultrafiltration membrane business to Dupont. The chemical company explained its decision with the lack of synergies within the group.

Hima keeps redefining the benchmark for safety technology with its safety solutions — ever since the company developed its first safety controller in 1970, “Safety without compromise” has been the motto that Hima from Brühl/Germany has always followed. Since then, the company has defined Smart Safety as its core competence and has helped shape the industry with pioneering innovations. Despite now having a global presence, Hima has preserved its status as a medium-size company and is still family-run, now in the fourth generation.

A serious explosion in a Spanish chemical park in Tarragona killed two people on Tuesday. Eight other people were injured, according to Catalan Interior Minister Miquel Buch.

BASF increased sales and earnings in 2013 compared with the previous year. For the full year, sales rose by just under 3% to reach €74.0 billion. For 2014 the company is cautiously optimistic with regards to global economic development.

BASF has inaugurated a new global Research and Development (R&D) Center at its Thane site in Navi Mumbai, India, focusing on organic synthesis, advanced process and formulation research, discovery chemistry for modern agricultural solutions, and molecular modelling.

BASF inaugurated the second phase of its new, world-scale antioxidants manufacturing plant at its Caojing site in Shanghai, China.

BASF will continue to invest in its coatings site in Jiangmen, Guangdong Province in South China, by constructing a new facility for automotive refinish coatings that will start production in the first half of 2022.

Under the terms of the MOU signed by Sibur and BASF, both the companies will work together in areas of water efficiency, carbon footprint management and chemicals recycling. The agreement was signed by Maxim Remchukov, Sustainable Development Director, Sibur and Christoph Roehrig, Head of BASF in Russia and the CIS.

Monolithic structures in process automation will soon be outdated. This will lead to even more competition, Jürgen Brandes, CEO of Siemens Division Process Industries and Drives, says in a double interview with his colleague and CTO Jörn Oprzynski. What role will be left for Distributed Control Systems (DCS) in the future? What can assistance systems already do today, and is autonomous plant operation really going to happen? Our exclusive interview offers up answers to all of these and a lot more questions.