Specialty chemicals company Lanxess officially has inaugurated its new neodymium butadiene rubber (Nd-BR) plant in Singapore. Located next to Lanxess’ existing butyl rubber plant on Jurong Island, the world-scale facility represents an investment of approximately €200 million.

German intermediates manufacturer CABB joins forces with Jining Gold Power from China's Shandong province: Both companies agreed to form a joint venture for the production and marketing of high quality monochloroacetic acid (MCA) in Jining...

A consortium of companies comprising Air Liquide, Akzo Nobel Specialty Chemicals, Enerkem and the Port of Rotterdam has signed a project development agreement covering initial investments in an advanced waste-to-chemistry facility in Rotterdam.

Many companies in the industrial ecosystem fail to take the necessary steps to minimize their security risks. In an effort to accelerate commissioning time, many companies do not even take advantage of a product’s built-in security features. Know more about best practices to secure the plant against cyber risks.

Eurochem, a leading global agrochemical company, has announced that its subsidiary Phosphorit has commenced the construction of a new high-tech ammonia plant in Kingisepp, Russia.

Self-Chilled Beverage Cans – Future of the Beverage Market? – Metal cans have not taken giant leaps in terms of improving the package functionality over the past two decades, with the can looking and doing more or less the same. Nevertheless, a breakthrough came in the form of the ‘Self Chilled Beverage Can’ in 2012, launched by Joseph Company, a privately owned beverage company in the United States of America. ‘Chill Can’ as it is called, can rapidly cool the contents by 300oCC in less than three minutes.

Merck announced an additional investment of approx. $ 49 million to build a robust manufacturing and distribution platform in Asia over a span of two years. This investment follows the company’s November 2016 announcement of its $ 98 million Life Science investment in Nantong, China.

FDA regulatory compliance is a mission-critical requirement. If the FDA finds a manufacturer to be non-compliant to or in violation of FDA rules, the consequences can be severe with warning letters, mandatory product recalls, temporary shutdowns, criminal penalties and fines depending on the severity of the violation. These penalties imposed by FDA could seriously dent the manufacturer’s brand image and at times could even cripple the manufacturer financially.

In 2010 the Adani Group broke ground on a new solid cargo handing port with the installation of a unique conveyor system that moves up to 6000 t/h to a rail loading silo approx. 4.75 kilometres from the port. These conveyors are supported by lightweight triangular galleries that do not include walkways and are maintained with a motorised trolley.

Claimed to be Mozambique’s first onshore LNG development, the project is expected to supply initial volumes of approximately 100 million cubic feet of natural gas per day.