The head of state of one of the major emerging markets will pay a visit to the world's largest industrial trade fair and expo: India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi – in office since May 2014 has announced his intends to visit Hannover Messe 2015. India has been named the official Partner Country at event's next year’s edition.

The French company Suez has won a design contract for the rehabilitation and expansion of the discharge constructed wetland at the Shanghai Chemical Industry Park, the largest petrochemical platform in Asia

TUV goes India: Home to one of the largest industrial, educational & research hubs in India, and surrounded by a rich agricultural belt, Pune can now also boast of an advanced laboratory for the testing of agricultural & processed food, materials, animal feed, pharmaceutical & cosmetic products, as per national & international standards. This could help to overcome the current waste of agricultural products in the country, TUV speakers stated...

Foster Wheeler’s subsidiary Global Engineering and Construction Group has been awarded a contract by Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) for the provision of engineering and procurement services for its Paraxylene Project at Jamnagar. This project is a part of RIL’s Expansion Project at its world-scale Jamnagar refining and petrochemical complex.

Scientists have validated Ørsted’s targets for reaching net-zero emissions across its full value chain by 2040 which are consistent with limiting the global temperature rise to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels. Ørsted is the first and only energy company in the world to receive this new net-zero validation by the Science Based Targets initiative carried out by scientists.

BASF and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have collaborated under a public-funded research project to design a formulation and coating model for multilayered battery coatings as multilayered battery anodes exhibit higher energy density and significantly improve production efficiency.

Variohm Euro Sensor’s SMO3100 series pressure sensors are now available with SIL 2/ PLd functional safety. Aimed at safety-critical pressure measurement tasks for gas and liquids compatible with stainless steel or titanium wetted parts, the new SMO3100 PLd will allow user’s the ability to meet SIL2 functional safety levels on machines and systems. The robust and durable sensor series is available in twenty pressure range versions from 0.5 to 5000 bar and with best accuracy to 0.5 % F.S.

Nova Chemicals of Canada completes the expansion of its major ethylene and polyethylene production facilities at Joffre, Alberta province. The site is one of the world's largest and feature three ethylene crackers.

Akzo Nobel and partners have commissioned a feasibility study from Deloitte. The goal is to provide an independent critical review and economic assessment on the viability of several business cases for the commercial production of raw materials from sugar beets.

Under an Agreement of Intent, Maire Tecnimont and Rosneft have agreed to build a new VGO (Vacuum Gas Oil) hydrocracking complex at Ryazan's refinery in Russia. The project is expected to convert heavy petroleum products into Class 5 light commercial petroleum product, thus increasing Ryazan’s refining margins.