At the end of 2009, one of the world’s largest spouted-bed granulation systems started up at Dresden-based contract manufacturer IPC. The company’s new ProCell 250 from Glatt Ingenieurtechnik provides unprecedented flexibility for agglomeration and spray granulation processes.

Granulation has often been plagued by blocked transfer lines, the difficulty of having to operate the system at multiple levels and time-consuming cleaning. A new granulation unit sets new standards in wet granulation.

Thomas Schulz, President of Sandvik Construction and member of the Group Executive Management, is leaving Sandvik for a position as CEO with the global engineering company Flsmidth, based in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Mátra Kraftwerk, Hungary, mines some 8 to 8.5 million tonnes of lignite each year, most of which is used to generate electricity in the company’s own power plant. To expand the capacities of its Bükkábrány open-cast mining sites, the company ordered a compact bucket wheel excavator with a capacity of 6700 cubic metres per hour.

Following a detailed appraisal, the Cologne district authority has granted Bayer Material Science the permit to build and operate the new high-tech facility for the production of the chemical TDI (toluene diisocyanate) at Chempark Dormagen.

The acquisition supports Air Products’ long-term and strategic focus on gasification. Under the terms of the agreement, the firm has also acquired GE’s share in its 50:50 JV with China Shenhua Coal to Liquid and Chemical Company, a subsidiary of China Energy Group.

thyssenkrupp Uhde Chlorine Engineers has bagged a contract from Air Products to supply a mega electrolysis plant to the green hydrogen project at NEOM in Saudi Arabia. The company is expected to engineer, procure and fabricate the plant based on its 20 MW alkaline water electrolysis module.

Indian Oil Corporation’s 10 TPD bio-ethanol project will be based on the company’s own technology developed by its R&D team and Nuberg EPC will be responsible for the establishment of the bio-ethanol plant project in Panipat, Haryana. The project will produce ethanol for fuel blending, a move that is in line with the Government of India’s Ethanol Blending Fuel vision.

The leading trade fair for the process industry is scheduled to take place from August 22 to 26, 2022, at the Frankfurt exhibition center. Originally, Achema was scheduled from April 4 to 8, 2022. Given the increasing uncertainty caused by the new Corona variant, those responsible — after intensive discussion with the community and the Achema Committee — have decided to do so.

Lyondell Basell announced that Sonatrach Total Entreprise Polymères Spa (Step), a joint venture between Sonatrach and Total, will use the Spheripol technology for a 550 KTA polypropylene unit to be constructed in Arzew, Oran province, Algeria.