Brudermüller previously held many important roles at the company including member of the Board of Executive Directors, Vice Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors and Chief Technology Officer.

The project is expected to produce 1,100 kta of ethylene, 600 kta of propylene and 175 kta of butadiene by using Mc Dermott’s specialised technologies.

A fire fighting vessel in the heart of Europe's industrial and chemical clusters needs special equipment: Equipped with specialised technology, Europe’s latest high-tech fire-fighting boat is able to work in hazardous atmospheres, fighting fires, explosions and chemical accidents. Its secret? Explosion-protected electrical equipment and lighting by technology specialists Eaton.

Officials at BASF’s Freeport, Texas, site announced that the site will soon begin construction of a new, 160,000 ton per year ammonium sulfate crystallizer system at its caprolactam plant. This is a joint project with American Plant Food Corporation, Galena, Texas, a customer of BASF.

With natural gas prices down by three-quarters since 2005, cheap raw materials and energy fuel the US reindustrialisation. Market analyst IHS believes that up to € 70 billion will be invested by 2025, doubling North America’s production of basic chemicals and plastics — is America the promised land for the process industry?

BASF today announced the start-up of a new butadiene extraction plant at its Verbund site in Antwerp, Belgium. The plant has an annual production capacity of 155,000 metric tons.

Wintershall, a subsidiary of the world's biggest chemical company BASF, acquires additional shares in oil and gas fields from Statoil for US$1.25 billion. The new fields shall increase the company's daily production in Norway to around 60,000 barrels of oil equivalent.

Frost & Sullivan’s recent intelligence, Global Analysis of Battery Materials Market, Forecast to 2023, examines the battery materials used in lead-acid and Li-ion batteries. The study finds that China, Japan and South Korea in Asia-Pacific (Apac) are proving to be lucrative markets for Lithium (Li)-ion battery material suppliers.

BASF will increase its capacity for cyclohexane oxidation at its Antwerp Verbund site by about 50,000 tons per year. The debottlenecking project will help to reduce the dependency on external suppliers of cyclohexane oxidation products.

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.