MG2 introduces two machines. Selecta/W is the new check-weigher and sorting machine for tablets and capsules, which can check up to 500.000 units/hour.

Clear the stage for innovative developments: at the Powtech 2011 fair, PROCESS, PharmaTEC and Schüttgut chose the winners of the Innovation Award for the fourth time in a row, which spotlights firms for clever new products. Find out which developments particularly convinced the jury and brought their inventors the trophies in Nuremberg.

ExxonMobil has opened its new Asia Pacific Signum Laboratory at the ExxonMobil Shanghai Technology Center. The new laboratory in China is the company’s first in the Asia Pacific region and provides customers direct access to high quality oil analysis to help improve their equipment performance.

Diosna — the German machine and system manufacturer is known for its high quality of its pharma machines and customized concepts — Since May 2018, Henrik Oevermann has been in charge of Diosna’s business as CEO. One of his first challenges was the changing of existing structures. The pharmaceutical and food divisions are now working more closely together in order to create synergies, delivering flexibility in engineering and in production. Now he is thinking intensively about the next steps in Diosna’s progress.

Speciality materials company Celanese and Mitsui of Japan plan a joint venture for methanol production at Celanese’s integrated chemical plant in Bishop, Texas.

BASF opens its ffith and largest so far construction chemicals plant in Asia at Nellore, India (Andhra Pradesh, South-East India). The new facility shall support regional customers with high-performance construction materials, the company explained.

Wether tracking proteins, DNA or endotoxins, adsorber capsules play an important role in all kinds of chromatography analytics. Yet, impurities can affect the precision of the measurement significantly. Now, a new dsevelopment effectively removes various impurities from protein feedstocks and are available in lab and process scale.

The shale gas bonanza in the US is inundating European and especially German industrial plant manufacturers with new projects. But the challenges associated with increasing project size affect not only EPC suppliers but also owner engineers at chemical companies.

In emerging countries transshipment of bagged goods is increasing and labour costs are climbing. Therefore, companies in these countries are looking for solutions to increase their handling capacity and reduces the number of workers. For truck loading, for example, systems are available that load bagged materials like cement directly from the packing machine onto the truck bed. The bags are palletised automatically in stacked rows or patterns.

From its head office in Germany, UWT has been confirmed by Siemens as the first Solution Partner for process instrumentation specifically designed for level control. Now, the UWT product range is expanded to include the Siemens Radar Sitrans LR560.