Be it individual valves or entire valve islands, revolutionary flow meters or flexible platforms for networking — Bürkert Fluid Control Systems has been keeping media, processes and ideas flowing for over 70 years. How do they do that? At the company's headquarters in Ingelfingen, Germany, one is certain that the key to success is to make sure to never lose sight of the requirements of plant operators …

What makes out a successful pump manufacturer in a technology-focused industry like the process industry? The answer is application expertise, which creates added value for the customer — after all, plant builders and users expect system solutions that are tailored to their individual processes. Industry-specific know-how is and always has been the driving force of innovation at Grundfos.

Ideas in technical gases don’t have to remain pipe dreams. When Carl von Linde invented his air separation process over a century ago, it marked the start of a success story that continues to this day. Technical gases revolutionized entire sectors, and continue to do so today. Just like Linde — the market leader in the gas industry who sets standards for these raw materials supplied in pressure cylinders …

Oil as a natural resource is becoming scarcer and more expensive and there is a need to look at eco-friendly ways of extracting it, thereby reducing CO2 emissions. White biotechnology offers a solution: scientists are now using microorganisms such as bacteria to generate substances for the production of polymers. The advantage is that these miniature biochemical factories run on renewable resources or agricultural waste converting it into valuable chemicals.

At this year’s ARC Industry Forum Hima Group has presented recent developments and enhancements to the Smart Safety Platform (SSP). This comprehensive functional safety platform provides plant operators with maximum cybersecurity to ensure that safety automation and critical assets are always protected.

The European Commission published an interactive map showcasing Covid-19 vaccine production capacities in the EU, along the entire supply chain.

Reliance Industries has plans to establish a new recycled polyester staple fiber manufacturing facility in Andhra Pradesh to double its PET recycling capacity. With this move, the company aims to enhance its circular economy footprint and strengthen its PET value chain.

Sartorius Stedim Biotech (SSB) announced the launch of services for new biological entities, called NBE Product Characterization. The company provides a comprehensive range of testing for innovator molecules available either as off-the-shelf assays or custom assay development for more complex proteins.

Under a five-year license agreement with Beiyuan, Nouryon will license its Continuous Initiator Dosing (CiD) technology to Beiyuan, and supply its Trigonox 187 proprietary CiD initiator to enhance the Chinese company’s polyvinyl chloride (PVC) production in the country.

Regardless of whether for distillation, filtration, drying or clarification — without separation technology, nothing goes. After all, most raw ingredients and products of chemical reactions are mixtures of substances that need to be separated for further processing. So it is good to have a partner who is a single provider capable of supplying everything from mechanical separation systems to exhaust air purification.