Branching into various industries, blockchain is now strongly making its presence felt in the oil and gas as well as the chemical process industries. PROCESS brings you the many plus points of this dynamic technology in chemical process industries.

Under the terms of the contract, Toyo will be responsible for carrying out engineering work for BASF’s investments in Asia Pacific. The renewed agreement can be traced back to the original partnership agreement which aimed at strengthening the partnership for BASF’s upcoming investments.

Clariant’s new supply base in Indonesia is expected to offer the firm’s oil service customers with improved, more sustainable supply chains for its Pour Point Depressants (PPD) and Drag Reducing Agent (DRA) products.

With an aim to expand its alkenyl succinic anhydride sizing agent (ASA) production capacity for the paper and packaging board industry, Kemira has invested in a new production line in China. This is the third production line at the company’s Nanjing site in the Jiangsu province.

Cooec-Fluor has carried out module fabrication work for its Dongfang Gas Fields Development Project. The modules are expected to be a part of the new offshore oil and gas production platform situated in the western South China Sea.

FCI, a leading supplier of connectors and interconnect systems, has been evaluating Silver Max Phase, a gold plating replacement technology of Impact Coatings. This has now resulted in the parties entering into an agreement to commercialize the contact finishing solution.

Several of the major international process industry groups will soon have new management personnel. In addition to Dupont, Lyondell Basell and Lonza, Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer and Jubilant Therapeutics have also announced changes at the top levels. PROCESS worldwide summarizes the latest announcements for you.

Successful turnaround projects underline the importance of the maintenance sector for Bilfinger. The industrial service provider has become a specialist for the difficult task, with contracts worth a double digit million Euros in the books for winter 2014.

Drying is a special art, which has to meet increasingly severe requirements. Now Italvacuum was able to convince with its Planex System at Dry Trophy Innovation Award 2016.

Lyondell Basell’s technology will be used for three of Petro China’s facilities in China and aims to add 1100 KTA of high density polyethylene capacity to the region.