SPX's new Novados H8 pumps use the well-established Bran+Luebbe hydraulically actuated pump heads that offer proven performance and reliability.

Together with its Westphalia-based parent company Haver & Boecker and machine builder Möllers, Feige Filling received its biggest order in its more than 40 year company-history from Foster & Wheeler and their customer Sadara Chemical Company. The order is part of the world’s largest petrochemical plant currently in planning and slated to be constructed in a single step.

The increasing global demand for electrical heat tracing, heating mats and heated hoses for even more complex applications fuels the need for high-quality measuring and control systems in this sector. Reliable and precise temperature control especially plays a key role in the pharmaceutical, chemical and petrochemical industry. To meet these requirements, Eltherm, a global leader in industrial heat tracing solutions, has developed the innovative electrical temperature controllers ELTC-14 and ELTC/H-14.

Clariant continues to move its speciality chemicals production for the paper industry to Prat. First batches of brightening agents just left the Spanish factory for the European and international mrakets.

Equinor has reported that one person at its Martin Linge field has been detected positive for the deadly virus which is spreading like wild fire across the globe. The patient has been kept in isolation. Two other people at the field have also been examined however, the results are still pending.

Neste has set an ambitious target for carbon neutral production by 2035 and this move is in line with the company’s other strategic climate commitment of reducing its customers’ greenhouse gas emissions by at least 20 million tonnes annually by 2030.

The new plant will be set up in China and is expected to produce 50,000 tonnes of sustainable engineered nylon compounds annually. This decision falls in line with Domo Chemicals’ global growth strategy which strongly focusses on the Asia Pacific region.

Zhejiang Petrochemical has selected Honeywell’s Polybed pressure swing adsorption units to supply high-purity hydrogen for the mega petrochemical complex which is currently in its second phase. On completion, the project is also expected to be one of the largest crude-to-chemicals complexes in the world.

Technip FMC has been awarded a subsea contract by Murphy Sabah Oil for an offshore field in Malaysia.

Commodity prices only recently gave in by about five percent – analysts blame the recent turbulences in the world economy. A new report by the German industrial bank IKB provides detailed insight for different commodities and materials.