Under the terms of the agreement, Petrofac and Marginal Field Development Company will join forces and operate gas to wire facilities for recovering marginal gas fields in the UK. The move is expected to maximise economic recovery and support the country’s clients.

Royal DSM has recently started a new production line for Arnitel in Emmen, the Netherlands. The move will enable the company to meet the growing demand for Arnitel high-performance Thermo Plastic Copolyesters in the region.

Thyssen Krupp has integrated an artificial intelligence solution (AI) into its materials distribution and service processes. "Alfred" supports his colleagues at Materials Services in dynamically managing the global logistics network with 271 warehouse sites and more than 150,000 products and services.

Adnoc and OCI have plans to form a joint venture under which Adnoc will combine its fertilizer business, Adnoc Fertilizers, into OCI’s Middle East and North Africa (Mena) nitrogen fertilizer platform. With a production capacity of 5 million tonnes of urea and 1.5 million tonnes of sellable ammonia, the JV is expected to be the largest producer in the Mena region.

PROCESS celebrates its 25th anniversary — and we look forward to taking you on a journey through time to the high points in the process industry. We hope to present technology that will excite and companies that have impressed us as pioneers and trendsetters. In the period up until the summer of 2020, we are going to show off a glittering range of innovations that will thrill and inspire in equal measure. We promise!

Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Interfacial Engineering and Biotechnology IGB and the University of Stuttgart aim to use the climate-damaging greenhouse gas carbon dioxide as a raw material for the production of chemicals. To do this, they are developing a combined plasma and membrane process that splits CO2 into oxygen and the chemical base material carbon monoxide.

For 65 years, family company Endress+Hauser has managed the balancing act of constantly striving for innovation while never forgetting about its roots. Then and today, the main focus has always been on serving the customer. How this can be done in the era of digitalization is highlighted by Günther Lukassen, Managing Director of Endress+Hauser Germany, and Nikolaus Krüger, member of the Executive Board at Endress+Hauser.

With the addition of the new production line, the facility in Zhangjiagang, China will support Wacker’s future growth strategy in the country and also enhance the availability of high consistency silicone rubber in the region.

While the early days of Endress+Hauser were all about delivering reliable and accurate measured values, today the family company is driving digitalization and Industry 4.0 projects at high speed — always with a focus on the customer.

API610 process pumps for one of the biggest and most modern refineries in Russia — Delivering pumps for the petrochemical industry is no easy task for suppliers: Not only, that compliance with international standards is required, the used materials have to be handled according to the highest demands. Especially, when materials like titanium are in needed.