Solutions competence for fluid engineering challenges — The company Bürkert Fluid Control Systems has kept media, processes and ideas flowing for over 70 years. How do they do that? By never losing sight of the requirements of plant operators and starting to find new approaches where others run out of ideas.

Sabic has become the first company in the industry to introduce such an innovative polycarbonate. The solution has the ability to reduce CO2 emissions and the use of fossil feedstock during production.

Neste and Remondis have plans to accelerate chemical recycling and aim to process over 200 kilo tonnes of waste plastic every year. Together, both the firms will combine their expertise to build an ecosystem around chemical recycling which will assist other companies in the value chain to follow suit.

Under a long-term agreement with Kazakhstan Petrochemical Industries, Air Liquide Munay Tech Gases will build, own and operate a new nitrogen facility in Karabatan, Kazakhstan. The new facility is expected to supply upto 8,000 Nm3/h nitrogen to KPI’s new 500,000 tonne per year polypropylene plant.

Total will be inaugurating the digital factory in 2020 with an aim to further enhance its operations and reduce its environmental impact. Around 300 experts will be brought together under this initiative to boost the company’s digital transformation move.

Diamond Green Diesel’s 1.1 billion dollar expansion will make use of Honeywell’s Ecofining process technology to increase its annual production capacity of renewable diesel. With this move, the company aims to become one of the largest renewable diesel plants in the world.

BP and Zhejiang Petroleum and Chemical Corporation (ZPCC) have signed a MOU to explore the establishment of the plant. If everything goes to plan, the new unit is expected to use BP’s Cativa XL technology to produce acetic acid and it would also be BP’s largest acetic acid producing site across the globe.

The Parenteral Drug Association (PDA) and the International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering (ISPE) announce the joint publication of a guide for Root Cause Analysis (RCA) to help the pharmaceutical industry improve quality culture by providing recommendations for tools, techniques, and processes.

Pure Cycle Technologies has transformed waste carpet into ultra-pure polypropylene resin with the help of its proprietary plastics recycling technology which has been developed by Procter & Gamble.

China is heavily investing in AI in order to help the growth of its innovative pharmaceutical industry. The move is in line with the government’s initiative of ‘Made in China 2025’, under which the country looks to heavily invest in R&D to boost innovation.