Oman Cement Company (OCC) installs a state-of-the-art digital solution at its cement plant. ABB Ability System 800xA is to optimize performance on all three process lines.

A central process control system is not sufficiently flexible or too expensive for many companies. The German engineering office for process automation/control, pac here relies on control units by Wago. In a project for biotechnology at Novartis, a remote system had to prove itself as a control unit of process systems in conjunction with a central monitoring system.

Comber's new vacuum contact dryer Condry TDC allows for an efficient drying of pharmaceuticals or fine chemicals, pre–dried with simple centrifuge or simple siphon sucking processes.

With the appointment of Rainer Höfling, the company aims to provide higher agility and increased customer focus for the specialised business.

Uhde's Indian subsidiary Uhde India has successfully completed Farabi Petrochemicals’ Linear Alkyl Benzene (LAB) expansion project in Saudi Arabia. The LAB-2 project went on stream earlier this month, when the feed cut-in was satisfactorily performed.

Intravacc will spearhead a consortium to begin the concept design for a multifunctional, high-capacity vaccine plant in The Netherlands which will help the country to produce sufficient vaccines during the Covid-19 pandemic. The CDMO organization has also developed a new pilot vaccine production plant which will be operational soon.

Fertilizer producer Eurochem Group announced that Chief Executive Officer Dmitry Strashnov has resigned from the group for personal reasons with immediate effect. Kuzma Marchuk, CFO of the Group, has been named Acting CEO.

Speciality chemical company Clariant has signed a license agreement with Harbin Hulan Sino-Dan Jianye Bio-Energy, a Chinese green energy company for its sunliquid cellulosic ethanol technology.

Adnoc signed the contract with a consortium of Spain's Tecnicas Reunidas and Abu Dhabi’s Target Engineering Construction Company. Tecnicas Reunidas is expected to lead engineering and procurement of the project while Target Engineering Construction Company will lead construction and commissioning works.

Ineos Styrolution has entered into a joint development agreement with Polystyvert to convert post-consumer polystyrene plastic into a new, high quality, polystyrene raw material resin. Polystyvert will make use of its patented advanced recycling technology for this purpose.