The world's largest propane dehydrogenation (PDH) unit has begun production: The new 600 kta plant at Tianjin, PR China, uses Clariant's Catofin catalysts process and technology under a license from CB&I.

Tres Valles produces not just sugar in the sugar cane factory of the Piasa group, but also power on the side. WEG has delivered the integrated energy production solution for the first power-heat coupling plant of Mexico.

Pfeiffer Vacuum has launched a new HiScroll Atex scroll pump which is ideal for pumping potentially explosive gases. The scroll pump can be used for analytics, industry or research & development.

GEA has been awarded an EPC (engineering, procurement and construction) contract by the biotechnology company Aker BioMarine to establish the world’s first pilot plant for hydrolyzing krill protein. The facility is expected to be operational by 2022.

Wacker has awarded the company’s ‘Alexander Wacker Innovation Award 2021’ to its in-house German-Chinese team for developing a novel process for producing vinyl acetate-ethylene (VAE) polymer dispersions. The winners were rewarded with almost 12,000 dollars.

Bloomberg reports that Iran’s Persian Gulf Petrochemical Industries Company is in talks with Asian companies to raise as much as 1 billion Euros ($ 1.1 billion) .

Pfeiffer Vacuum has introduced its latest turbopump in the market – the HiPace 80 Neo. The company has also installed its new patented Laser Balancing technology in the vacuum pump which makes it suitable for vibration-sensitive applications.

“The hermetically sealed centrifugal pump outperforms magnetic-drive pumps with respect to mode of operation and reliable contents of solids and gases in the pumping medium” — the verdict of PROCESS on a new magnetic-drive pump. That was over two and a half years ago, so its now time to find out how the dry-running horizontal pump has fared in day-to-day service.

At Mölnlycke Health Care’s production center in England, printing is applied to porous and smooth substrates on a wide variety of shapes and packaging materials. The printing result must meet demanding standards. Excellent flexibility is one of the outstanding features of a new highly versatile thermal inkjet printer.

Many industrial processes require heat energy to be moved from one place to another via a heat transfer fluid: typically water and steam at temperatures up to 200 °C, and heat transfer oils for the range 200–450 °C. Pumping fluids reliably at such high temperatures is a challenge that sealless canned motor pumps can meet. The new generation of solar thermal power stations provides a practical example.