The efforts of both the specialised companies will enable the diversion of polystyrene waste from landfills by converting it back into valuable polymers and monomer building blocks. In addition to this, Green Mantra’s secondary product from the polystyrene depolymerisation process is expected to be evaluated for use as a raw material by Ineos Styrolution for its polystyrene resin production.

BASF plans to sell major parts of its fertilizers activities. This comprises production plants in Antwerp/Belgium and BASF’s 50 percent share of the joint venture PECRhin in Ottmarsheim/France.

Bayer MaterialScience has inaugurated a manufacturing facility for polyisocyanates at Ankleshwar, in the state of Gujarat, India. With the investment of approximately €20 million, the company wants to expand its business in India and to participate in the strong growth of this local market for coatings and adhesives.

The Dow Chemical Company plans to build a propylene glycol (PG) plant in Map Ta Phut, Thailand, with a production capacity of up to 150 KTA.

How can you accelerate the pace in the Chemical Process Industry (CPI) and reduce time to market? The container concept developed within the framework of the Copiride Project provides some answers.

Surge protective devices are safety-related components and, as such, an essential part of process plants. Information about the status and performance of these components as well as on the status of the plant itself play an important role in continuous monitoring and predictive maintenance. Get to know a system, which acquires all this information — and also enables it to be utilized in the Internet of Things.

The trade fair duo drink technology India and International PackTech India were extremely successful with a visitor increase of 37 per cent. Held from September 25–27, 2014, around 10,250 trade visitors came to the Bombay Convention & Exhibition Centre, Mumbai to obtain information about solutions for the international packaging, package printing, processing, beverage and food industries.

Foster Wheeler was selected as engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCm) services provider for Lanxess new butadiene rubber facility in Singapore. The Swiss based engineering company had already provided the front-end engineering design for the plant, which expected to be the biggest of its kind globally.

Biotech, packaging and analytical innovations are about to make a drastic change for the food and beverage production. Companies are actively researching the effects of digitalisation, 3D-printing, big data or cloud solutions as well well as genetic engineering with effects that reach far beyond the f&b industry...

Solvay and United Chemical Company LLP (UCC) have jointly started to examine the construction of new hydrogen peroxide capacity in Kazakhstan.