MOL and Tatneft have plans to build a rubber bitumen plant in Tatarstan, Russia. The Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade will be partly financing this project. The new facility is expected to have a production capacity of about 20,000 tpa.

Looking to maximize the business benefits of its manufacturing execution systems (MES) while minimizing the costs of ownership, Carlsberg has chosen Simatic IT from Siemens as a corporate standard. Solution partner ATS commissioned the first installation in April 2009. Over the next four years Carlsberg plans to roll out Simatic IT to 15 plants.

Oil and petrochemicals boom in Asia: Especially China has seen a rapidly emerging petroleum products industry that is just about to venture into overseas market. Reason enough to address these developments with the International Forum on Petroleum & Chemical Engineering 2012, organized by PROCESS China. This year, the forum will be held in Shanghai for the first time...

It is quite time-consuming to constantly check the iron content in drinking water manually. The Bürkert Online Analysis System with the MS06 iron analyzer for photometric iron measurement does this fully automatically, includes several measuring points and allows long maintenance intervals.

Located at Shell’s Energy and Chemicals Park Rheinland, near Cologne in Germany, the mega project is part of the Refhyne European consortium which will utilize the PEM technology to produce green hydrogen.

Under a distribution agreement signed between modular process solutions (m-PS) and Evonik, m-PS will become the sole distributor of Evonik’s Puramem organic solvent nanofiltration (OSN) membranes in Europe. The company will begin the distribution from July 1, 2021.

Ethernet-APL is the new two-wire, intrinsically-safe physical layer suitable for use in demanding process automation applications. Its benefits include dramatically improved communication speed, hazardous area reach, power to field instrumentation, and long cable runs.

Repsol and Tecnicas Reunidas have entered into a strategic agreement to develop new industrial decarbonization technologies in order to produce sustainable biofuels and bio-based polymers from agricultural and agri-food waste.

Lyondell Basell’s Spheripol and Hostalen ACP technology have been selected by Jiangsu Fenghai for its new polyolefin facility in China. The technology will help the company to produce polypropylene and high-density polyethylene products.

Denka’s styrenics resin plant in Singapore received the polymerization technologies from Sulzer Chemtech ahead of schedule which enabled the company to speed its production capacity.