Seven Fraunhofer Institutes are working together for the lighthouse project ‘Waste4Future’ wherein they intend to develop new solutions for plastics recycling. With this project, the institutes want to establish a chemical industry that requires less fossil raw materials and produces less emissions.

The Singapore Economic Development Board (Singapore EDB) has stated in its recent release the country’s business sentiments for April – September 2021. It further mentions that the biomedical manufacturing cluster expects a positive business environment for the above-mentioned period while the chemicals cluster expects output to increase in the next quarter.

Leybold is taking a big step toward the digitalization of its product line and has an innovative online sound check for vacuum pumps on its website. With this free tool, users receive immediate feedback regarding the condition of their vacuum pumps.

The 61-million-dollar PEM electrolyzer plant will be constructed in Spain by Cummins and its partner Iberdrola along with the support from the Spanish Government. The plant will be used to produce green hydrogen and is expected to be complete by 2023.

Shell has plans to sell its interest in Deer Park Refining Ltd Partnership, a 50:50 joint venture firm between Shell and Pemex, to Pemex for 596 million dollars. Once the deal is finalized, Pemex will solely own the company.

New technical developments are thronging the market place during the course of Process Industry 4.0. In this context, a new system in the area of valve technology is catapulting itself to the top of the development pyramid. It can be used to simplify, to improve the structure of administrations and to optimise processes. All this can yield surplus value for plant manufacturers as well as plant operators.

PKN Orlen has plans to expand the Olefins Complex at the Płock production unit in Poland. Once complete, the project is expected to be one of the most modern facilities in Europe. With this project, the company will join the group of the largest petrochemical producers in the world.

A new role for a climate killer: Bayer plans to use CO2 as a source of carbon for the production of polyol for PU-foams. The company now wants to invest around € 15 million in a first industrial production site..

GEA builds a new production plant for home and personal care products in Bosnia Herzegovinia for Violeta. The new facility shall provide a flexible and fully automatic, multi-purpose liquid processing infrastructure, allowing Violeta to create new opportunities in a market that has, to date, been dominated by foreign imports...

A Thai research team has enlisted the help of robots to help develop a vaccine to protect against covid-19.As the world gears up to fight the pandemic, rapid testing of vaccines is vital to ensure that populations can swiftly achieve immunity. Yet this testing must also be performed accurately to get the correct results and safely to ensure laboratory staff are not exposed to risk.