Wanner Engineering has won a court case in China regarding a patent for its Wanner Hydra-Cell seal-less diaphragm pumps. The company is heavily investing in new technology for the benefit of its customers and is undertaking active measures to stop counterfeiting of its patented innovations.

The Corona crisis, particularly the lockdowns adopted by many governments, has hit the chemical industry hard in China. However, sales in many of the top companies in China already declined in 2019, even before Corona. But there are exceptions, as the figures from 2019 in our latest top 10 show here.

On a recent visit to evaluate several level transmitters on chemical storage applications at a new combined cycle power plant, Magnetrol-Ametek had the opportunity to work with the EPC firm, plant personnel and the chemical supplier. This provided an interesting look at the level instrumentation package for the chemical storage side of things from an engineering perspective, as well as from a daily operations point of view.

Many suppliers in the pharmaceutical production industry want to move away from individual machines and towards complete systems, even though the turnkey segment is just as competitive. In this interview by PROCESS PharmaTEC, Thomas Fricke, Commercial Director at Ima Pharma, reveals the company’s competitive positioning, where he sees the company’s strengths and why he needs to keep a close eye on Chinese competitors.

Sinopec has commenced operations at its green hydrogen pilot project in Kuqa City of Aksu Prefecture, China. The project plays a significant role for the firm as it aims to produce clean energy for the country.

Lanza Tech and Danone have developed a new technology to convert carbon emissions into monoethylene glycol (Meg), which is vital for the production of polyethylene terephthalate (Pet) bottles. The technology also has the potential to be used across multiple sectors, such as packaging and textiles.

Siemens has introduced a new 4.0 version of the web-based process control system Simatic PCS which can be used for process plants of any size. It has also launched a new hardware platform for the process control system – the Simatic S7-4100 controller generation and the Simatic CN 4100 communication node.

The consortium which includes seven companies Itochu Corporation, Nippon Steel Corporation, Taiheiyo Cement Corporation, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Itochu Oil Exploration Co., Inpex Corporation, and Taisei Corporation will conduct the joint study under the Tohoku Region West Coast CCS initiative.

Asahi Kasei has partnered with Kurashiki City to evaluate and demonstrate the performance of a biogas purification system at a sewage treatment plant in Kurashiki, Okayama, Japan. The system is expected to refine high-purity methane gas by removing CO2 from biogas utilizing Asahi Kasei’s newly developed adsorbent, which selectively adsorbs CO2.

The NYU Water Research Centre in Abu Dhabi has selected Axium Process to develop a range of membrane filtration and ion exchange pilot systems in order to carry out detailed investigations for numerous industrial, environmental, and process-based applications.