At this year’s Pack Expo 2019, Coperion and Coperion K-Tron presented a variety of feeding and conveying solutions for bulk solids handling, however, the main focus was on the newly redesigned K3 Vibratory Feeder line and its technological advancements.

Perstorp, manufacturer of neopentyl Polyhydric alcohols (Polyols), announced the agreement for the acquisition of Polialcoli from Polioli.

Under the terms of the agreement between Sulzer and China’s Yangzhou Huitong Biological New Material, Sulzer will deliver technology as well as key equipment for the company’s polylactic acid production facility.

OMV and Alba Recycling have plans to work together to develop an innovative sorting plant for separating mixed plastic waste for chemical recycling. The project is expected to process 200,000+ tons annually of post-consumer mixed waste into feedstock for the production of virgin polyolefins.

Clariant has inaugurated the waste water treatment plant at the zero liquid discharge site, Bonthapally in India. The plant is expected to treat 300 kilolitres of waste water per day.

Chevron Phillips Chemical has successfully completed a low viscosity polyalphaolefins (PAO) capacity expansion at its Cedar Bayou plant in Baytown, Texas.

With an aim to improve the company’s safety culture, Perstorp established the global safety project – ‘Project Dolphin’ and with the support of Dupont Sustainable Solutions developed a new safety protocol for its seven international manufacturing sites.

Indian companies’ lower spend on research and development (R&D) have been preventing them from making an impact in the innovative drug market. To promote the development of innovative drugs, the country needs to create a corresponding research eosystem, says Global Data.

Early Thursday morning, a fire broke out at Lubrizol’s chemical plant in Rouen, France. No injuries were reported, and the fire has now been extinguished. The incident caused huge plumes of black smoke in the French city. Environmental testing by local authorities indicate no initial findings of acute toxicity from the resulting smoke.

The closure of the initial registration period for the European Union’s REACH chemicals regulation at the end of November 2010 marked the culmination of a period of intense regulatory activity both within Shell and right across the industry.