Specialty Chemical company Evonik expands its cooperation with IBM in the field of digitization and becomes a member of the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab to accelerate innovation with AI. The two companies extend their strategic partnership ahead of schedule until 2025.

With the development of the propane dehydrogenation project in Pakistan to establishing large-scale green hydrogen production plants across the globe, PROCESS Worldwide brings to you the most recent engineering projects of the week.

Honeywell UOP and Exxon Mobil announced a technology licensing agreement with Hainan Handi Sunshine Petrochemical, marking the first project in China under a joint marketing alliance for premium fuels and lubes between the two technology providers.

Operators of process engineering plants fear little more than production downtime. Even for process cooling applications it is essential to find the right filtration solution. Here you can read what you have to take into account.

The deal will enable Kingchem to establish its maiden R&D and GMP-manufacturing capabilities in the US. In addition to this, the firm will also invest another 2 million dollars for capacity expansion and setting up a new lab.

Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) has predicted that global demand will reach an average of 96.5 million barrels (159 liters each) per day this year, 190,000 barrels more per day than its earlier mentioned forecast in March.

Merck has plans to expand research and development as well as manufacturing capabilities at its site in Shizuoka, Japan. The move is expected to boost innovations for the electronic materials sector.

The Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (Adnoc) announced that it is moving ahead with plans to expand the capture, storage and utilization of carbon dioxide (CO2), produced from either the Habshan-Bab gas processing facilities or the Shah gas plant. A decision on which plant to capture the CO2 will be taken in 2019. The project will be engineered so as not to interrupt ongoing production from either facility.

Air Products has acquired the remaining 50% stake in its gasification technology joint venture from China Shenhua Coal to Liquid and Chemical Co. The move is expected to further strengthen the company’s gasification technology portfolio in China.

The pharmaceutical industry is facing enormous challenges. In an exclusive video interview with PROCESS Worldwide, Fabriano Ferrini, Product Manager for Tablet Presses at Ima Active, shares the hurdles faced by suppliers of tablet presses in the pharma sector as well as informs us about the company’s Domina online event which will introduce a new configurable platform for tablet manufacturing.