Linde has entered into a contract with a leading semiconductor manufacturer in Singapore and under the terms of the contract, the company will build, own and operate a new plant to produce ultra-high-purity nitrogen and oxygen. These industrial gases will then be supplied to the manufacturer’s new multi-billion-dollar semiconductor fabrication plant.

Ineos Styrolution, Covestro and many other leading companies as well as associations such as the Circular Plastics Alliance and the Alliance to End Plastic Waste are undertaking massive initiatives to solve the ‘plastic’ issue which is a threat to our environment.

Hamilton Process Analytics released the next generation of its popular Visiferm optical dissolved oxygen sensors, which greatly reduce calibration frequency and the risk of deviation while increasing the overall sensor lifetime at the same time.

Eastman has plans to expand its tertiary amines capacity in Belgium and the USA in order to meet the growing demand in Europe and North America amidst the Covid pandemic.

New, yes, but based on tried and tested principles yet with improved ergonomics — that was the thinking of the designers at size reduction specialist Frewitt as they developed the OscilloWitt, their latest technology for the gentle milling of heat-sensitive products.

The World Refining Association will focus their upcoming event ERTC Ask the Experts on June 20 and 21 in Cologne on the opportunities digital technologies offer for remote plant operation.

For the fertiliser industry, a golden age could lie ahead–American shale gas, exploding population figures and climate change are driving the demand for artificial fertilisers. Drawing on the GROAB project database, PROCESS summarises for you plant construction projects worldwide in 2014 and looks into the future of the fertiliser industry.

The German standard reference 'Heat Transfer Technique with Organic Fluids' is now published as an international edition. The new, third edition - a project of the media brand PROCESS of Vogel Communications Group - is now available in English as Vogel-Reference-Book.

Air Liquide will invest in a new carbon monoxide production unit in the Port of Rotterdam, to be located next to the company’s existing facilities. The plant, which will be commissioned in the first half of 2015, will double Air Liquide’s carbon monoxide production capacity in the basin.

Collaborating with Tata Power, Kirloskar Brothers has installed the world’s largest circulating water pumping system at the company’s Mundra UMPP (Ultra Modern Power Plant). A mammoth 10.5 million litres of water is circulated with the help of KBL’s 10 Concrete Volute Pump sets every minute.