All kinds of valves being manufactured at KBL’s Kondhapuri plant (Picture: Vogel Business Media India)
Valve Design

How Sustainability Meets Functionality with Modern Valve Design

Following the new age concept of Gandhian engineering, which basically means “getting more from less for more”, Kirloskar Brothers, imbibe the concept of sustainability in every aspect of manufacturing. Here’s a look at their state-of-the-art Kondhapuri plant, situated near Pune that designs and develops products from less material, less cost, less time and less environmental pollution

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Edwards' XDS-C dry scroll vacuum pump (Picture: Business Wire)
Pumps

Pumps for Aggressive Media

Edwards has launched a special variant to its XDS range of dry scroll pumps, suitable for use in more aggressive applications. The new XDS-C dry scroll pumps are fitted with a Chemraz gas ballast non return valve pad and exhaust valve pad, and stainless steel exhaust flange.

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Galleries

The soap and detergents industry is experiencing significant growth in new products. To keep up with demand, manufacturers must use the best possible equipment — such as product transfer pumps. (Pictures: Blackmer) (Archiv: Vogel Business Media)
Sliding Vane Pumps

Pumping Soap, Not Bubbles

Modern soap manufacturers process a variety of hundreds of ingredients to different products — a challenging task for the process developer, especially when it comes to laying out pipes and pumps. Read how modern sliding vane pumps meet the challenge offer a clean advantage for soap and detergents manufacturers.

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In the detail: The integration of the continuously running Miprowa production reactor into the existing building infrastructure at Shaoxing Eastlake in China near Shanghai. (Ehrfeld; [M] Beeger)
Microreactors & Process Intensification

Microreactors Make it Big: Can Micro- or Milli-Reactors be Used in Multi-Ton Production Plants?

My, how you've grown! Micro- and millireactors bring process intensification in specialty chemistry and pharmacy — One of the current challenges facing the process industry is a change in product portfolio away from commodities to customer-specific specialties. The paradigm shift in process technology production from the batch principle to the continuous flow process based on micro- and millireactors offers great advantages in many cases and is now showing initial success on an industrial scale.

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