Claimed to be India’s largest adhesive manufacturing site, the smart manufacturing unit recently launched near Pune aims to meet the growing demands of high-performance solutions in adhesives, sealants and surface treatment products within the Asian country.

Celanese announced preliminary plans to expand its emulsion polymers derivatives business to extend the value of its global acetyl chain. The expansion projects include sites in Nanjing, China and Geleen, Netherlands.

Merck plans to invest € 50 million in its Italian production site in Bari, southern Italy, in order to respond to the rising demand for biopharmaceuticals. The new production facility is to be commissioned in 2017 for the sterile filling and packaging of liquid drugs into syringes, vials and ampoules (fill & finish).

The rating agency Icra has revealed in its latest report that the Indian pharmaceutical industry is likely to experience growth in the backdrop of a strong demand in the domestic market along with a reduction in pricing pressure for the US market.

An agreement was signed between Adnoc and Dubai Supply Authority following the discovery of 80 trillion standard cubic feet of shallow gas resources in Abu Dhabi and Dubai. With this agreement, the UAE aims to achieve its goal of becoming self-sufficient in terms of gas reserves.

Located in Ningbo, the new ABS plant is expected to have a capacity of 600,000 tonnes annually. Construction on the project will begin this year and is anticipated to be complete by 2023.

Whether cyclone screeners, vacuum weighing systems or automated dosing of micro quantities with the aid of robot technology, during the course of the last 70 years, Azo has written many key chapters in the annals of bulk materials handling. And this is set to continue into the future.

Monolithic structures in process automation will soon be outdated.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.

The 5-kilo tonne plant will be constructed at the Chemie Park Delfzijl in the Netherlands and is expected to cost 33 million dollars. The project is anticipated to play a vital role towards the adoption of sustainable feedstock in the chemicals industry.

With this mega investment, Aramco Trading will also become a new user of the Vakt blockchain platform. The move will lead to further development of the platform and also enable the blockchain firm to venture into new markets.