The year is 1864 — The Bavarian fairy-tale king Ludwig II ascends the throne. The first pneumatic post dispatch system starts up in Hamburg. Lincoln wins the US presidential elections. And the 28-year old Wilhelm Meyer from Hanover/Germany founds a machine company (Maschinenfabrik) in Aerzen. Of all these things, only the company Aerzener Maschinenfabrik is still a presence today. It has grown. And it has benefited from a pioneering spirit and a richness of ideas, courage and hard work.

How do you survive as a German machine builder for over a century and a half? “There are two essential ingredients: innovation and quality,” says Stephan Brand, Vice President Marketing & Product Management at Aerzen. He believes that the chemicals market is a particularly challenging industry.

State-of-the-art automation systems can revitalize old equipment if they are deployed purposefully and with sound judgment. Read how to rejuvenate your equipment, ranging from simple control system migration to the introduction of digitalization and artificial intelligence.

API610 process pumps for one of the biggest and most modern refineries in Russia — Delivering pumps for the petrochemical industry is no easy task for suppliers: Not only, that compliance with international standards is required, the used materials have to be handled according to the highest demands. Especially, when materials like titanium are in needed.

PROCESS celebrates its 25th anniversary — and we look forward to taking you on a journey through time to the high points in the process industry. We hope to present technology that will excite and companies that have impressed us as pioneers and trendsetters. In the period up until the summer of 2020, we are going to show off a glittering range of innovations that will thrill and inspire in equal measure. We promise!

In line with its goal ‘Higher output with the same quality and safety’, CP Pumpen has launched a new pump size in its established MKP product range of sealless magnetic drive pumps. With this new pump size, it is now possible to transfer hazardous media at higher flow rates using the efficient, rugged and safe magnetic drive pumps from CP.

Biomass – more than just a fuel for power generation: It carries the hope to be usable for an ever–increasing number of chemical intermediates and finished products. Let's take a look at the challenges that the biomass conversion, bioplastics and renewable feedstock poses for plant engineering...

Thermo Fisher Scientific has developed a new Total Residual Oxidant (TRO) analyzer to address the needs of the wastewater industry, which calls for a robust, dependable instrument capable of reliably measuring low ppb chlorine concentrations in effluent and treated wastewater in line with stringent regulatory requirements.

Cole-Parmer’s industry exclusive technology, Masterflex Live Cloud-enabled pumps, brings the Internet of Things (IoT) to pump applications, providing pump operators with the ability to remotely control and monitor pumps via the internet — without the need to be onsite. This feature has now been enhanced with 21 CFR Part 11 and EU Annex 11 compliance, so that robust security, data control, and electronic records are possible with low-cost subscription.

How production plants could save up to 134 PJ per year — Your production process may be up to the energy efficiency task — but what about your waste heat? Discover how heat recovery systems and economizers can turn exhaust heat into usable energy ...