Steeper Energy, a Danish-Canadian biofuel company, is partnering with Silva Green Fuel, a Norwegian-Swedish joint venture, to construct a € 50.6 million industrial scale demonstration plant at a former pulp mill located in Tofte, Norway leading to a future commercial scale project.

The trend towards smaller cleanroom units is obvious. No matter if you look at pharmaceutical industry or at medical technology. And the cleanroom becomes mobile. Ideas how to develope cleanroom technology often come from other disciplines...

What formula is the pharmaceutical industry developing in the face of constantly increasing costs? How are companies coping with the growing regulatory pressure? What will production be like in tomorrow's world? There were serious topics on the agenda at the 20th anniversary of ISPE-DACH in Hamburg/Germany.

With Smartsens, Krohne has unveiled the first family of analytical sensors that eliminates the need for external transmitters, thus allowing users to rule out some of the typical problems that affect analytical measurement. A revolution in analytical measurement, Krohne states — but read for yourself ...

New specialty-monomer production starts production: Wacker Chemie ramüps up its new 3,800 tons/year specialty-monomers plant at the company's Burghausen site.

Most people entering Frankfurt by car from the autobahn heading for the city center or the fair grounds take notice of an unusual sight: The impressive ammonia reactor in front of the DECHEMA Research Institute. Fewer people, however, are aware of what is going on in the blue-tiled building behind the corroded column: At the DECHEMA Research Institute, chemists, engineers, and biotechnologists work on the development of sustainable technologies for future generations.

Package unit integration: how do you assemble a modular system? — Package units, modular system design and process skids are hot topics at the moment. Thinking in systems is becoming a familiar soundbite in the component manufacturing and chemical industries, but the building block approach is not making as much headway as had been expected. Interfaces to existing automation and control systems are lacking. An overview.

The UK government grant Ineos an infrastructure loan guarantee worth € 285 million or £ 230 million. This allows Ineos to raise the money necessary to build a new terminal to import and store ethane for Grangemouth as North Sea availability declines.

Metso has agreed to divest certain parts of its industrial rubber conveyor belt manufacturing and related sales and services operations in Northern Europe to Contitech and Lutze Group. The planned divestment is part of Metso’s strategy to develop and simplify its current production capacity in Europe.

PAC and PC based systems drive innovation – Both the systems prove beneficial for customers and the industrial automation sector as a whole.