Located in Tangjeong, South Korea, the new plant is expected to supply700 tonnes-per-day of gaseous nitrogen to support Samsung’s operations. The fresh plant is Linde’s fourth air separation plant at the facility.

Bayer MaterialScience has inaugurated a manufacturing facility for polyisocyanates at Ankleshwar, in the state of Gujarat, India. With the investment of approximately €20 million, the company wants to expand its business in India and to participate in the strong growth of this local market for coatings and adhesives.

Sinochem Hongrun Petrochemicals has plans to use Honeywell UOP’s Isoalky ionic liquids alkylation technology to produce cleaner-burning fuels at its refinery complex in China. The specialised technology is the maiden successful liquid alkylation technology to be introduced in more than 75 years.

Changchun/PR China, Essen/Germany – Evonik Industries is significantly expanding its polyether ether ketone (PEEK) capacity in response to growing global demand. Along with a number of optimization measures, the company is modernizing an existing plant. The project at the Changchun site in China is scheduled to be completed by 3rd quarter 2011.

The Dow Chemical Company plans to build a propylene glycol (PG) plant in Map Ta Phut, Thailand, with a production capacity of up to 150 KTA.

Raj Ratnakar is the new Chief Strategy Officer for the Specialty Products Division of Dow Du Pont. Under the rules, he will report to Marc Doyle, chief executive officer-elect for Du Pont and chief operating officer, Dow Du Pont Specialty Products Division.

Big bags are gaining more visibility as an environment-friendly method for shipping and handling food ingredients. However, several challenges make the handling process difficult. Here are some solutions that can offer a helping hand to users dealing with big bags.

Softing joins Emerson’s Delta V Alliance Product Program and extends intelligent device management across the field to islands of devices and out to the enterprise to remote subject matter experts. To meet the increasing requirements for energy efficiency and flexibility in modern process manufacturing, information about processes and plant statuses is required which can be exchanged across systems. To achieve this, sensors, devices, control systems and production plants have to be networked horizontally and vertically.

Eni and Chevron Lummus Global (CLG) have entered into a Joint Cooperation and Licensing Agreement for a complete suite of residue hydrocracking technologies. Both the companies will work together to develop the next generation of process and catalyst technologies to address the complete conversion of low-value residua and alternative feedstocks to valuable transportation fuels and petrochemical precursors.

The digital twin is the future of infrastructure and engineering. This is why Bentley last year has presented the new Itwin Services cloud platform. For the company this is only the beginning of future developments.