The global industrial wearables market is projected to grow from 1.1 billion dollars in 2019 to 8.6 billion dollars by 2024, growing at a CAGR of 50.2 %. Many firms have developed smart solutions but are there any wearables specifically for the chemical and oil & gas industries? PROCESS Worldwide finds out…

By making use of efficient equipment – the Bauer PMSM technology along with Allweiler pumps – Stendal’s wastewater treatment facility in Germany is aiming to become entirely energy self-sufficient by 2025.

Exxonmobil has developed an innovative methanol-to-jet SAF technology by using renewable methanol as feedstock. The move is aimed at decarbonizing the aviation industry and achieving a net-zero future.

Siegfried recently held a groundbreaking ceremony to develop a new global drug substance research and development center in Evionnaz, Switzerland. The firm has plans to invest 28 million dollars for the project.

Daring to do something new, but preserve the tried and tested values. That is the motto of Dechema Managing Director Dr Andreas Förster. In recent years, the professional society has become more practical and application-oriented. And there are even more ideas. Förster reveals what these are in the PROCESS interview.

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2022 is about making difficult processes easier. Barry Sharpless and Morten Meldal have laid the foundation for a functional form of chemistry — click chemistry — in which molecular building blocks snap together quickly and efficiently. Carolyn Bertozzi has taken click chemistry to a new dimension and started utilising it in living organisms.

Under a partnership with Coca-Cola, Indorama Ventures has developed Pet Value Philippines, the largest Pet recycling plant in the Philippines. With this project, IVL intends to recycle about 2 billion additional used Pet plastic bottles in the Philippines which will be used to produce recycled Pet resin suitable for use in food-contact applications.

For more than two decades, peristaltic (hose) pump technology has proven to offer the performance and reliability that can make it a first-choice pumping option for wastewater treaters who crave highly reliable, environmentally friendly, low-maintenance pump operation.

Adnoc’s new facility will include an LNG plant with a total capacity of 9.6 million tons per annum and will be designed with electric drives for the liquefaction compressors. It will also make use of numerous features that will assist the plant to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Under the collaboration between Trakcel and Lonza, both the parties have successfully combined Trakcel’s cell orchestration platform Ocellos and Lonza’s manufacturing Moda-Es(R) platform. This means that critical manufacturing steps, checks and data will flow directly into the Chain of Custody and Chain of Identity within the cell and gene therapy supply chain.