With the appointment of Rainer Höfling, the company aims to provide higher agility and increased customer focus for the specialised business.

Nalco, a subsidiary of Ecolab, plans a new polymer production facility at the company’s complex in Garyville, Louisiana. The 300,000 square-foot facility will produce dry polymer products for use in removing contaminants from wastewater, increasing production efficiency in the paper industry and recovering minerals in the mining industry.

The 37-acre plant is operational and is expected to increase the firm’s global carbon fiber production capacity. The facility has also generated 370 jobs for the locals.

Sometimes, beautiful products need dirty processes. Elaborate jewelry for example, might be treated with aggressive tarnision fluids. The consumer does not know — but the manufacturer should. Learn what to expect when pumping abrasive fluids and why solid body plastic AODD pumps might do the trick.

Technip completes acquisition of Hummingbird technology from BP Chemicals Limited, a second generation ethanol to ethylene technology. The technology is lower cost and simpler compared to first generation technologies.

German chemical company Evonik and Transferra Nanosciences, formerly known as Northern Lipids, have signed an asset purchase agreement to acquire the business and assets of the biotechnology company based in Burnaby close to Vancouver/Canada. Both parties have agreed to not disclose the purchase price. The transaction is scheduled to close at the end of July 2016.

SPX presents the Uniglide–e, the latest axially split double entry pumps from ClydeUnion brand. The pump was developed with state–of–the–art 3D and FEA analysis software and with extensive consultation with major users.

CO2 to chemicals: What potential has the utilisation of carbon dioxide for chemicals production? — CO2 has a bad image. But can the undesired exhaust gas also be used as a raw material? Not an easy task, yet researchers from all over the world are working hard on turning the climate killer as a raw material. And those, who believe this will remain a thought game played in ivory towers or think that these minor experiments will remain confined to the cellar laboratory are making a big mistake: The first production scale plant is already on-stream....

Plant engineering is making a small comeback in Europe. But how viable is the trend? — In 2018, European investment projects saw a mini-boom: 134 new plants in the first eight months show the potential in the industry. But now, thanks to trade conflicts, the Brexit and oil price rises, growth is coming to a standstill —  is chemistry running out of steam?

The larger the reaction vessel, the quicker products can be made – or so you might think. Microreactors show just how wrong that assumption is: in fact, they can be used to produce explosive materials – nitroglycerine, for instance – around ten times faster than in conventional vessels, and much more safely as well. At the ACHEMA trade fair, held June 18-22 in Frankfurt, researchers demonstrate microreactors they use for a very broad range of chemical processes...