The thin-film drying technology from Gig Karasek can be used for continuous drying of suspensions, municipal sludges, slurries, pastes, wet solids, filter cakes and chemical products.

The company is looking at a potential U.S. Gulf Coast project which is expected to expand its annual polypropylene manufacturing capacity by up to 450,000 tonnes.

And the winners are: Borealis has announced the winners of its 2011 Borealis Student Innovation Awards. On January 19, 2012 Alfred Stern, Borealis Senior Vice President Innovation & Technology, presented Rana Qudaih and Dr. Said Mehdiabadi with their awards, certificates and monetary prizes at the Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, Austria.

Jiangsu Sailboat Petrochemical Company has accepted a new methanol-to-olefins (MTO) unit provided by Honeywell UOP — the plant is operating and has met all guarantees. With a production capacity of 833,000 metric tons per year, the unit is the largest single-train MTO unit in the world.

Graphene is making the transition from research journals to commercial applications. This article discusses a new class of nano-material and their commercialization in wide ranging applications.

Xianglu Petrochemical aims for a leading position among China's PTA producers: The company plans a new two million tons/year production facility for this important basic feedstock for the polymer industry in Zhangzhou, South–Eastern China.

The QCP plant is expected to convert consumer waste into 25,000 tonnes of polypropylene and high-density polyethylene. The objective of this company is to churn out an output of 100,000 tonnes by 2020.

Methanol could be the answer of the one big question of the petrochemistry: How to become more independent from crude oil? Again China is being a trailblazer. A lot of Chinese plants convert methanol to petrochemicals. Scientists at ETH Zurich have now deciphered the complex chemistry behind the start of this process.

Maag, one of the leading global manufacturers of gear pumps, pelletizing and filtration systems, and pulverizers for demanding applications in the plastics, chemical, pharmaceutical and food industries, has announced that it will exhibit the latest products for pharma applications for the first time in the company’s history.

Life Sciences and Materials Sciences specialists Royal DSM plan a new investment in the US: The company will build a new polymerization plant for polyamide 6 polymers. The site location, though, is still not yet decided.