BASF has made Tobias Dratt in charge of the Division Global Business Services in Ludwigshafen, Germany and Marc Ehrhardt has been given the responsibility for the Division North America, BASF Corporation in Florham Park, New Jersey.

thyssenkrupp At.Pro tec is well known for the development of the sequence impulse process (SIP). When used on cupola furnaces, it considerably increased their cost-effectiveness in the past. In over 10 years of development work with Schubert & Salzer as their partner, Dr. Rainer Klock and the team at At.Pro tec succeeded in getting the SIP technology to work on blast furnaces, too, with the help of sliding gate valves. This is a story of a researcher who is on his way to becoming a plant manufacturer.

At the centre of the Marchesini Group’s presence at this year’s Achema is the state-of-the-art solution for the packaging, serialisation and traceability of blister products, developed in association with strategic partner SEA Vision — a company specialising in vision systems.

Richard Stedman has rejoined the ACG Group and has been appointed as the CEO of the engineering division. Previously, he held the same post from 2017 to 2021 and he has an overall experience of 35 years in the Packaging, Engineering and Pharmaceutical manufacturing industries.

Perstorp is working on an innovative project which will assist the company to make use of wastewater from a nearby municipal treatment plant for its production operations in Stenungsund, Sweden. The project is expected to save 1.1 billion liters of fresh water annually.

In an important market such as Europe (Germany), MG2 won the confidence of one of the largest European CDMOs which own production sites in Germany, Ireland, Italy, Romania, Switzerland and the US.

Thyssenkrupp Uhde has entered into an agreement with Ark Energy to deliver a feasibility study for the Han-Ho H2 Hub project which aims to produce green ammonia. Thyssenkrupp Uhde’s proprietary Rhamfs methodology will be used for the project.

Minimised wear in the sliding gate valves, reduction of downtime and maintenance costs — In a hydroelectric power plant in the Swiss Alps, specially modified automatic basket strainers minimise the wear on the hydraulic control valves caused by glaciers and suspended solids. They are designed for water pressures of up to 1,160 psi (80 bar) and filter out particles with a fineness of 25 μm.

Air Liquide and Siemens have formed a joint venture (JV) to produce large-scale renewable hydrogen electrolyzers in Europe. In the new JV, Air Liquide will hold a 25.1 % stake while the remaining stake of 74.9 % will be held by Siemens Energy.

The Grasshopper Project is a new generation of power plants based on fuel cells (FCPP: Fuel Cell Power Plant). Abengoa, a participant in the Grasshopper Project has started-up and commissioned a demo plant which aims at producing sustainable energy via fuel cells from hydrogen.