The new strategy announced by BASF is concentrating on organic business growth. With the aim of becoming faster and more flexible, the company intends to significantly simplify structures and processes, sharpen its portfolio and strengthen the Verbund. Sales with products that make a substantial contribution to sustainability are to reach $ 25 billion in 2025.

The new strategy announced by BASF is concentrating on organic business growth. With the aim of becoming faster and more flexible, the company intends to significantly simplify structures and processes, sharpen its portfolio and strengthen the Verbund. Sales with products that make a substantial contribution to sustainability are to reach $ 25 billion in 2025.

Curtains up! PROCESS recognises innovative products, processes and developments for the fifth time with the PROCESS Innovation Award. Discover, which companies were able to take home the coveted trophy at yesterday's award ceremony and what devlopments and technologies convinced the jury.

With a capacity of producing 75,000 tonnes per year, the new plant will be making use of renewable and non-GMO sugarcane from Thailand to produce a range of Luminy PLA resins.

Baltania has awarded Pöyry an assignment for Engineering, Procurement and Construction Management (EPCM) services for the new Torrefied Pellet Plant project in Vägari, Estonia. The assignment includes project management, basic engineering, procurement and site supervision services.

In order to balance out spikes in power grids resulting from non-uniform regenerative energy conversion from wind or sun, surplus power can be used for the decentralized production of chemicals. German research center Fraunhofer IGB has developed an electrolytic cell in which hydrogen peroxide can be produced on site with electric energy from just water and air – along with oxidative wastewater treatment.

Claimed to be the biggest industrial commitment by an international corporation in Craiova, Romania, the plant is expected to process 250,000 tonnes of wheat and other cereal straw as well as 50,000 tonnes of cellulosic ethanol annually.

The race for the competitive advantages through Internet of Things, Industry 4.0 and digitalization has begun. Siemens Division Head Dr. Jürgen Brandes gives insights on how Siemens will optimally support the challenges in the process industries with more speed, innovation, shortening of the Time to Market, flexibility and efficiency. This can happen only through more industry expertise, open interfaces and Coopetition. No doubt: The Siemens world is becoming more open.

An innovative new liquid gas extraction technology— requires only moderate pressure and leads to improved efficiencies and performance. It offers significant cost savings in small batch applications.

The maxim “Time is money” is particularly appropriate for the current situation in the pharmaceutical industry. The companies here are therefore striving to keep the time to market launch of a product as short as possible. An efficient information management system helps them in this and optimizes the design and operation of a plant. Consequently, they achieve considerable competitive advantages.