The Swiss Baumer Group, one of the leading global manufacturers of sensors and sensor systems, today announced that it has acquired the majority of Waaree Instruments Ltd., one of India’s leading suppliers of process control instruments. The company is part of the Indian Waaree Group, a family enterprise based in Mumbai.

Clariant’s flame retardants facility which is also its first Chinese production plant will be developed at Daya Bay, Huizhou in the Guangdong Province. The move is in line with the firm’s aim of expanding its Exolit OP range of flame retardants in the Asia region and also to meet the growing demand across the electrical and electronic equipment industries in China.

PeproTech will be integrated in Thermo Fisher's biosciences business and its recombinant proteins portfolio will complement Thermo Fisher's bioprocessing and cell culture technologies which will help the company to cater to the rapidly-growing market for cell and gene therapies.

PROCESS Worldwide brings to you the ‘Top 10 plant engineering projects of December 2021’ from all over the world. Right from MOL Group and DCM Shriram digitalizing its plant operations to one of the world’s largest polymer production plants set for completion, find out all the projects making headlines here.

The BulkSolids India Conference & Exhibition 2011 closed its doors on April 8, 2011 after three days of vivid discussions and knowledge exchange. The combination of conference, workshops and exhibition brought together all parties involved in bulk solids and powder handling and processing and lead to a high quality of visitors.

Saint-Gobain has plans to take over Rockwool India from the Alghanim group. The soon to be acquired firm offers numerous insulation products for thermal, acoustic and fire safety applications as well as has two manufacturing facilities in India with a total capacity of around 50,000 tons. With this move, the company plans to enter into the country’s stone wool insulation market.

The new Glatt innodryer allows a gentle drying of herbs and other temperature sensitive products. The valuable ingredients of the herbs are maintained during the drying. The energy consumption is only a fraction of conventional technologies, the company says.

Eneos and Preferred Networks (PFN) have achieved a breakthrough in autonomous plant operations by successfully operating a butadiene extraction unit autonomously for two consecutive days by making use of a new artificial intelligence system at Eneos Kawasaki Refinery's petrochemical plant in Japan.

The sodium-ion battery technology is claimed to be safe, sustainable, provides high energy density, is a low-cost energy storage technology solution and is significantly cost competitive as compared to other battery technologies. Reliance will make use of the technology at its fully integrated energy storage giga-factory which is a part of the Dhirubhai Ambani Green Energy Giga Complex project at Jamnagar, India. The acquisition will also assist India to become one of the leading countries in battery technologies.

Weylchem has completed the integration of its latest acquisition, Weylchem Bilbao/Spain. They will cooperate closely with French sister company Weylchem Lamotte in Northern France.