Big Pharma has set its sights on china: Managers of major pharma players expect boom on Chinese biologics sector, as government pushes the branch to the forefront. Will the country be on-par with western companies within five years?

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The degree of safety in explosion protection has risen constantly in the last 20 years–Initiated by the European Union at the beginning of the 1990s, the Atex guidelines shall now be transported to all regions of the world. With globally harmonised regulations, unified installation safety could be achieved worldwide.

in his paper “Man-Computer Symbiosis”, L.C.R. Licklider advocated in 1960 the construction of computers capable of working symbiotically with humans.

After approval of the FDI specification the market waits for the corresponding products. ABB has risked coming out early and has presented the first version of the Field Information Manager (FIM) at the previous Achema trade show. The test laboratory of Bilfinger Maintenance is now gathering the initial experiences with that.

Shell Canada Energy has taken a final investment decision (FID) on LNG Canada, a major liquified natural gas (LNG) project in Kitimat, British Columbia, Canada. With LNG Canada’s joint venture participants also having taken FID, construction will start immediately with first LNG expected before the middle of the next decade.

Aker Solutions has been awarded a five-year agreement to supply brownfield modifications, maintenance and operations support for BP's Greater Plutonio and PSVM fields offshore Angola.

The chemical industry could be the first to feel the immediate impact of Britain’s possible vote on exiting the EU: recent studies show that the branch could be affected by a seven billion pounds loss in exports, making it the hardest hit of all British industries…

With this new collaboration, Perstorp aims to produce 50,000 tonnes per year and is also planning to increase the production beyond 100,000 tonnes in the future.

Technip completes acquisition of Hummingbird technology from BP Chemicals Limited, a second generation ethanol to ethylene technology. The technology is lower cost and simpler compared to first generation technologies.