Covestro is already actively exploiting the benefits of digital transformation. The company now announced that important progress had been made in two areas: A pilot project has provided new findings for the predictive, intelligent maintenance of systems and is now continued at the production site in Caojing, China. Also, the global project for digitalizing and integrating the system landscape in production, "Optimized System Integration" (OSI2020) for short, is entering the next project phase.

While food lovers immediately think of cherry gateau and the regional ham, measurement and control engineers all around the world associate the Black Forest with level and pressure measurement. With close regional ties to its site in Schiltach right in the heart of the Black Forest, Vega has been focusing on these two measuring methods for decades and is regarded an innovation driver in the field. Radar measurement technology in particular has made a major contribution to the success of the company.

Nouryon has joined forces with water treatment company Van Remmen UV Technology on a novel method to address the growing concern of pharmaceutical micropollutants in waste water.

The carbon capture and storage project, Northern Lights is expected to be the maiden storage project site across the globe to receive CO2 from industrial sources located in different European countries.

Clariant has inaugurated the waste water treatment plant at the zero liquid discharge site, Bonthapally in India. The plant is expected to treat 300 kilolitres of waste water per day.

The new China facility is expected to add 8,000 metric tonnes of annual fumed silica capacity to Cabot’s global network. With this move, the company claims to become the largest provider of fumed silica in the Chinese market.

The Hydrogen Manufacturing Unit (HMU) will be built on the Tabangao refinery in Batangas, Philippines. The move follows a long term contract signed between Air Liquide Philippines and Pilipinas Shell for supplying hydrogen to Shell’s Tabangao refinery.

A number of exhibitors in "pharmaceutical and packaging Halls" 1 and 3 at Achema have taken aim at small lot sizes and reliable containment and offer efficient solutions which support the trend towards personalized medicine. Some companies are also positioning themselves as Industry 4.0 pioneers.

Lyondell Basell announced its Knapsack-site in Germany is now the world’s largest polypropylene compounding facility. The manufacturing site earned the new title with the startup of its fifth production line.

Hyosung aims to become among the top three producers of carbon fibers in the world. With the heavy investment, the firm plans to expand its production capacity from the current 2,000 metric tonnes a year to 24,000 metric tonnes.