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.

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.

You need a technology that filters highly and low-viscous media or removes pharmaceutical residues in drinking water? You want to know, how to reduce the energy consumption of membrane bioreactors in wastewater treatment? Prior to this year’s Filtech (October 22–24, Wiesbaden/Germany), the largest filtration event worldwide, PROCESS asked manufacturers of filtration technologies.

Anyone who works in the chemical industry is familiar with the problem: aggressive media and high temperatures put vessels, valves, fittings and internal components under extreme stress. It is important to select the right material to ensure that the equipment does not become the expected point of failure in the process chain.

The world’s leading event for the plastics industry projects the image of an industry in upheaval. Demand remains strong for lightweight materials and composites, but new competitors are putting chemical companies under pressure. Hopes are pinned on customer-specific solutions and alternative raw materials to provide a breakthrough.

By 2020, on-purpose propylene technologies could account for 20 percent of the global propylene production: As petrochemical production shifts towards, ethane, new sources of propylene supply are needed.

As for any complex process, the devil is in the detail, and, in manufacturing, there are few exceptions. Here is where a system's smallest components can make or break a company's financial targets for success. To improve the operational efficiency of o-rings, gaskets diaphragms, valves and pump stators, perfluoroelastomer seals may be the right choice.

Pluss Polymers, a polymers research and manufacturing company involved in the field of specialty polymeric additives and phase change materials for thermal energy storage, is starting a new manufacturing unit at Bawal in October 2013.

Covestro has selected Emerson to provide Industrial Internet of Things (IoT) technologies for remote monitoring and predictive maintenance at nine high-utilisation plants.

Organik Kimya is expanding the production capacity of redispersible powder polymers. The investment includes an addition of a second spray dryer to the Tuzla based Orgachem plant, which will be operational by 2020 and will double the current production capacity.