Today’s fast-growing pharmaceutical and biotech industries need rapid and robust solutions for every step of the development process. To reduce time to market, each phase of scale-up has to be reliable and safe, while maintaining high performance. With this in view, Millipore has added new smaller sizes to its existing range of high-performance disposable filter capsules. The result is an extension of linear scalability to even smaller volumes.

Industrial tablet PC for Ex zone 1 — Whether in a chemical plant, on a construction site, or on an oil rig: The new “office to go” from Bartec can be used everywhere without any concerns related to explosion protection regulations.

The Combitron from Christ reduces the cost of ultra-pure media by up to 30% by generating both pure steam and water for injection (WFI) at the same time. It also occupies considerably less space than separate pure steam and WFI generators, the company notes.

The reason for unsatisfactory results with milling process optimizations lies in the critical quality parameters. Using a conical sieve mill as an example, the article will show that it is possible to determine the correct process parameters by means of statistical analysis.

A large number of physical measuring methods are used today for continuous level measurement of the most diverse product media in the area of liquids and bulk solids. It is understandable that both plant planning and operating staff would like to have one single method as this would indeed reduce the training requirements and commissioning errors as well as lead to cost savings (e.g. for replacement devices). However, every measuring principle has its strengths and weaknesses.

Wireless measurement systems have long been more than just a vision even in the process industry. Emerson Process Management will be bringing its 2.4 GHz In-plant Smart Wireless solutions onto the market this spring. This technology should bring about a quantum leap for users in the reliability of their plants and in the efficiency of their operations.

Under a long-term agreement signed between Braven and Chevron Phillips Chemical (CPChem), Braven will supply its pyrolysis-derived feedstock Braven Pychem to the chemical major. The move will establish a circular economy for the manufacturing of new plastics.

The Global Hygienic Airlock (GHA) by Schenck Process is a USDA Dairy accepted dismountable airlock that is ideal for applications where dry raw or finished products are being handled in the process and where inspection or system clean-out are required.

The move is expected to reduce CO2 emissions by up to 50,000 tonnes per year at Nouryon’s salt production site at Hengelo, in the Netherlands. The company has also more than doubled capacity for emulsion-based organic peroxides at its site in Los Reyes, Mexico to meet increased customer demand in the North American PVC market.

Namur has recently released an upgraded solution of the NE 53 which will help in software and hardware identification of field devices and signal processing devices.