It is essential to select the right equipment in order to achieve reliable results when measuring humidity. The same is true of calibration processes which are carried out at regular intervals and should be based on traceable standards. This will serve to guarantee reliable results in the long term.

At its plant in Waco, Texas/USA, Allergan packs single-use eye drop vials in cartons of various sizes, and also in sealed plastic trays. Previously these two packaging types needed two separate equipment lines, but for the last few months the company has been using a GMP-compliant packaging line which can do both.

At the beginning of the year, a large desalination plant was put into operation on Australia’s Gold Coast. It delivers 125 million liters of drinking water each day, which in this dry region corresponds to 20% of drinking water requirements. For this project, Nijhuis Pompen BV of Winterswijk — part of the Norit Group — delivered and installed 42 pumps. At the customer‘s request, some pumps use condition monitoring, where the vibrations are measured using sensors and measurement modules on the Wago-I/O-System.

Located in Alabama, the plant is Arkema’s maiden facility in the USA. The move is in line with the firm’s ambitious growth strategy for developing high-performance polymers and advanced materials.

When talking today about solid dosage form production, often containment immediately becomes one of the issues. Why?

JGC Corporation has been awarded the contract for the construction of a Methionine production facility for Sumitomo Chemical Company to be located in Niihama City.

Pfeiffer Vacuum is presenting extremely high compression models with its new HiPace 700 H turbopumps. With a compression ratio of ≥2·107 for hydrogen, they are suitable for generating high and ultra high vacuum.

Seamless documentation of all process values is required in order to further optimize processes and systems. Previously, far-away systems such as tank farms and pump stations could only be incorporated into the process automation with a large investment or not at all. The GSM network offers a simple solution to this problem if the safety criteria for areas subject to explosion are taken into account.

The fresh facility is expected to handle an annual production capacity of approximately 400,000 tonnes of ADN and is claimed to be the first world-scale ADN plant to be built in a long time.

For the third time PROCESS chose the best product innovations in the industry at this year’s Powtech/TechnoPharm trade fair in Nuremberg/Germany. The judging panel selected the best entries from more than 50 nominations and presented awards in a prize-giving ceremony.