One man's meat is another mans poison – The US' love affair with shale gas takes its toll on the country's butadiene industry, a new study shows. The country might well be caught up in the dependency of butadiene imports from foreign producers.

Exner’s new generation of Excell sensor series not only provides the end user with higher flexibility during application, but at the same time allows safer processing.

Hanmi Pharmaceutical has chosen GEA to supply manufacturing equipment for a new plant that’s currently under construction in the city of Pyeongtaek-si in the Gyeonggi province of South Korea.

KPX Chemical and Huntsman’s new joint venture – KHPUA will develop and supply advanced polyurethane system solutions to Korean automakers in order to meet their superior acoustics and light-weighting requirements. KPX Chemical will make use of its polyol technology and combine it with Huntsman's expertise to develop high performance, MDI-based automotive solutions.

A White Paper Modular Plants, written by the temporary ProcessNet working group, gives an overview on current t and product cycles in the chemical and pharmaceutical industry.

The Marchesini Group has plans to exhibit three machines – a monobloc machine for counting and capping, a Turbo Emulsifier and an AVI machine for the inspection of liquid, lyophilized or powder products in vials or syringes at the upcoming Interphex trade fair in New York, USA.

The intelligent Kobold Man-SC/LC digital pressure gauges are used for the display, switching, and remote transmission of pressure-dependent operating sequences in machines and installations. The Man-LC is claimed to be the only digital pressure gauge available with IO-Link.

Solvay has announced a proof of concept for PVDC packaging circularity while maintaining the quality of the polymer. With this, the company has the potential to transform the future recycling of PVDC food packaging and is therefore, requesting other firms in the plastics industry to collaborate in this initiative.

Pfeiffer Vacuum has introduced the new OmniControl universal control unit for pumps and measurement instruments. With this solution, one is able to easily control vacuum systems.

Uhde Inventa-Fischer is about to build a 432,000 tonnes a year PET production plant at Gehl, Belgium. The facility, that will become Europe's biggest PET producer, will produce high-quality raw materials for bottling and packaging applications for JBF Industries of India, speakers explained. Feedstock terephthalic acid will be produced by BP Chembel on the same site.