Coating specialist Axalta has expanded the resins production capacities at its Tlalnepantla campus just outside of Mexico City. The new polymer resins that can now be produced in Mexico provide the backbone of Axalta’s traditional solventborne and latest generation waterborne coatings, the company states.

Bio Live’s findings have been carried out in relation to the world’s first ever biopharma league table. On the basis of a number of characteristics, the table calculates the status of leading bio manufacturing countries across the globe.

Bio Live, the new bioprocessing and manufacturing event running alongside this year’s Cphi Worldwide — announced the initial findings of the first biopharma league table, which evaluates the reputations of major bio manufacturing countries across a number of characteristics.

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 To overcome outdated project approaches and to promote the process industries, Emerson Process Management has dedicated itself to this objective and this also was the central theme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.