Price shocks, supply chain risks, and trade conflicts: When the unimaginable becomes everyday reality, can companies react at all? Do tried-and-tested strategies provide answers in uncertain times? And what exactly does VUCA stand for?

Sara Anderberg, non-contacting radar product manager at Emerson, explains how intelligent signal processing technology in modern transmitters enables organizations to meet the challenges of tank obstructions interfering with radar signal reflections.

The Japan Institute of Invention and Innovation has awarded Asahi Kasei with the 2025 Imperial Invention Prize for its invention of a nickel-coated absorption layer which extends the service life of electrodes for chlor-alkali electrolysis.

Bühler Group has launched Optibake, the world’s first inductively heated wafer oven. The solution boasts of improving quality, operational flexibility, efficiency and is also capable of slashing energy consumption by 50 % as compared to conventional gas-fired wafer baking ovens.

Aequita has entered into an agreement and exclusive negotiations with Lyondell Basell under which it intends to acquire four of Lyondell Basell’s olefins & polyolefins assets in Europe.

Cargill Incorporated’s 17-acre specialty chemical manufacturing facility in Dalton, Georgia, USA has now been acquired by the Aditya Birla Group. With this, the Group aims to expand its U.S. Advanced Materials business.

Solvay’s Linne Herten plant in the Netherlands has chosen BASF as the primary supplier of aluminum chloride. The sourcing of aluminum chloride from India to BASF in Germany is expected to reduce the carbon footprint associated with this raw material by over 50 %.

Thyssenkrupp Nucera has been selected to carry out a feed study for a 600 MW green hydrogen project in Europe. The hydrogen produced at the site is expected to be used in hard-to-abate industries.

Europe’s largest e-fuel production plant in Frankfurt, Germany has commenced operations. The project Era One is expected to produce up to 2,500 tonnes of carbon-neutral e-fuels annually.

Ineos Olefins & Polymers Europe has launched a new advanced recycled plastic production process at its Lavera site in Southern France. Its cracker has received the first deliveries of pyrolysis oil made from recycled plastic waste that will be used to develop virgin-quality polymers.