PKN Orlen will make use of UOP’s Q-Max and Phenol 3G technologies for its Poland-based phenol unit. The facility is expected to produce 200,000 metric tonnes of phenol annually. UOP will also provide a cumene unit and a phenol unit with alpha methyl styrene hydrogenation to the project.

The Dow Chemical Company and K2 Pure Solutions (K2 Pure) have celebrated the successful start-up of a new chlor-alkali plant at Dow’s Pittsburg, California site. The new state-of-the-art manufacturing facility will produce bleach to serve municipal water treatment facilities in Northern California. In addition, the plant will supply Dow’s Pittsburg operations with chlorine for the manufacture of crop protection products and other materials.

Malvern's Mastersizer 3000 measures particle size using the proven technique of laser diffraction. A particle size distribution is calculated from measurements of the angular intensity of scattered light produced by a sample. The company presents the product at Powtech during a special lunchtime event. Make sure you get a seat and secure your free entrance ticket voucher for Powtech.

The pump specialist Flux-Geräte has conducted further developments on the highly flexible Viscoflux mobile drum emptying system, with which highly viscous, paste-like, non-flowing materials can be transported continuously and gently.

The new Delta Hybrid series of rotary lobe compressors from Aerzener Maschinenfabrik is a world first in creating a symbiosis between rotary lobe blowers (for a lower pressure range) and screw compressors (for a higher pressure range), for the first time ever permitting maximum pressure levels of up to 1.5 bar in pneumatic conveyance. In field trials at a milling operation it was rated “very good”.

In Addition to its aliphatic and aromatic polyols at its U.S. facility in Wilmington Invista operate also a production facility for aliphatic polyols in Vlissingen/The Netherlands.

Visoka has increased its production output of high efficiency finned tubes. They have commissioned a new CNC rolling plant. Their high fin tubes production is now better controlled through this development.

The production of solids of different shapes directly from the melt by means of downstream installed cooling conveyors is offering advantages in comparison to other processing options. Ebbecke Verfahrenstechnik have recognized that and added pastillation by means of water cooling systems to their contract services offered.

Data makes the lab go round: Laboratory automation enables the handling and evaluation of thousands of samples. The result: data galore. The question is how to make good use of this information.

Fluor was awarded a contract by Shaanxi Non-Ferrous Tian Hong REC Silicon Materials (TianREC) to provide detailed design services and technical support for its new polysilicon plant to be located in Yulin, Shaanxi Province, China.