Praj Industries’ second-generation bio refinery project is currently underway in India for which Valmet will be delivering its biomass pretreatment system. The solution will be delivered next year to the Asian firm.

Shin-Etsu Chemical will invest the hefty amount to expand its facilities in order to strengthen its silicones business in view of growing demand. The facility investments will be implemented at its main plant, the Gunma Complex in Gunma Prefecture, as well as the Takefu Plant in Fukui Prefecture and the Naoetsu Plant in Niigata Prefecture, Japan. The firm intends to complete these capacity-expansion projects and begin operations by 2025.

Siemens has partnered with Nvidia to advance the concept of computational fluid dynamics simulation. With Siemens’ Simcenter Star-CCM+ 2022.1 software one is able to accelerate CUDA-enabled GPU which ensures faster turnaround times and lower hardware investment costs.

Thyssenkrupp is deploying Bonfiglioli alignment-free drive systems at a major gold mine expanding production in Papua New Guinea. The drives are used for discharge and spillage conveyors involved in the mine’s process plant expansion.

For the revamp of its newly acquired aluminium plant in Vlissingen, The Netherlands, Century Aluminium has ordered a fume treatment system of LTB. The treatment of fumres friom the baking shall help to cut emissions significantly, the company states.

Reliance Industries (RIL) has scheduled a planned maintenance turnaround of one crude distillation unit of its SEZ refinery at Jamnagar Complex for a period of approximately 4 weeks starting February 18, 2013.

The advent of automation and information networks has seen process plants becoming targets for hackers, cyber–spies and malware programmers. Now Yokogawa and McAfee have announced the signing of a partnership agreement to offer holistic and value-added IT security solutions for the industrial automation world.

Sabic has become the first company in the industry to introduce such an innovative polycarbonate. The solution has the ability to reduce CO2 emissions and the use of fossil feedstock during production.

Evonik has plans to construct a new methyl mercaptan plant at its Mobile site in Alabama, USA. With this move, the company aims to strengthen its world-scale methionine production hub in the country.

Exxon Mobil and Synthetic Genomics announced a breakthrough in joint research into advanced biofuels involving the modification of an algae strain.According to the company, the researchers have been able to more than doubled the algae's oil content without significantly inhibiting the strain’s growth.