Technip was awarded a contract to provide project management by Air Products. The contract includes engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) services for a new industrial gas complex for Bharat Petroleum Corporation – Kochi Refinery (BPCL-KR) located in the state of Kerala, India.

Chevron Phillips Chemical Company now published plans to expand the low viscosity polyalphaolefins (PAO) capacity at its Cedar Bayou plant in Baytown. The expansion will allow the company to meet the increasing demand for high-performance lubricants in automotive and industrial applications.

Yokogawa Electric Corporation has entered into a strategic agreement with Chevron USA to resell Chevron’s proprietary petroleum supply chain planning software Petro.

What has advent of additive manufacturing in store for the process industry? – The 3D-printer becomes a gamechanger: While some companies set themselves apart by using customized materials or dream of the pill out of the printer, others fear the impending marginalization of the chemical industry. Gold rush or hangover? An industry is looking for answers between polymer filaments, prototypes and printed pills.

In line with the state-owned oil company’s Downstream strategy, the plant is expected to extract maximum value from heavy oils and slurry. The Carbon Black & Coker Project is anticipated to produce 40,600 tonnes of two different grades of Carbon black per year, and 430,000 tonnes of high value anode grade calcined coke.

Are you too struggling with high project expenses and extended targets? To overcome outdated project approaches and to promote the process industries, Emerson Process Management has dedicated itself to this objective and this also was the central theme of the Global Users Exchange 2016 in Brussels. A keyword that was propagated again and again: “Project Certainty”.

Filling above-level, sub-level or below bunghole: this is what you hear when experts talk about drum filling technology. Feige Filling develops Ex solutions for Atex Category 1 because their filling machines mainly operate in hazardous areas. To meet these requirements, the company relies on the universal Wago-I/O-System 750 at the I/O level.

Inprotec manufactures high-quality powders and granulates using continuous fluidized bed granulation and spray drying processes. The company relies on advanced technologies and constantly tries out new production possibilities. This innovative spirit is also reflected in the process control and remote access technology employed.

For decades, intrinsically safe pumps have been known as a problem-solver — as a result, this is also true for the centrifugal pump manufacturer Bungartz with its permanently safe pump performances. Numerous — even unusual — examples from the chemical industry and related areas verify this statement. A globally active company is only one example of those benefiting from the extensive experience the pump experts bring to the table. Due to a change implemented by a supplier, the company is reliant on a reliable pump solution for its production process.

Merck Serono becomes the first and only multinational company in China to dedicate a large scale green-field investment to the production of pharmaceuticals on China’s essential drug list: The pharma company just broke ground for a production facility in Nantong. China is Merck's second largest market.