New megaplant–project in the US: Chemicals and fertilizers company Borealis and Agrifos join forces for a new world-scale ammonia project through Gulf Coast Ammonia in Texas.

The extension of capacity is a common requirement. But space is usually limited — especially in existing wastewater treatment plants. The advanced Bio-Cel-Modul now provides four percent more performance with the same module size, as this article shows...

Refinery operator PCK plans some major modifications at its refinery during the scheduled 2016 shutdown. For this purpose, the company entrusted EDL Anlagenbau with some technologically extensive revamp plans for one of Germany's major refinery sites.

Additional signal circuits are required when it comes to expanding capacity in processing facilities with hazardous areas of food and beverage industries, like distilleries. These signal circuits depend on measured variables from the explosion-hazardous area being transferred to the control panel and, conversely, signals from the control system being transferred to actuators in the field. Hardware intervention at interface level can have an impact on plant availability. The task is always to keep this impact at the lowest possible level.

Sibur has broken ground for a 100 ktpa dioctyl terephthalate (DOTP) facility in Perm, Russia. The construction project is carried out in cooperation with the Perm Territory Government as part of a special eight-year investment contract. Production is scheduled to start in 2019.

Air Products announced that it has signed a second long-term oxygen and nitrogen supply contract with a leading global materials supplier in the Chinese province of Guangdong. The company did not give any further details about the customer's identity.

Global Data offers an insight into two of the core problems—waste and carbon—which the pharma industry faces today along with its possible solutions. Allie Nawrat, a senior medical reporter with Global Data shares her viewpoint on this.

Royal DSM has completed the acquisition of Glycom, one of the world’s leading suppliers of Human Milk Oligosaccharides (HMO) for an enterprise value of 838 million dollars. With this move, the company intends to add HMOs to its portfolio in order to develop next generation early life nutrition solutions.

For a leading European animal-feed producer AODD pumps are the ideal choice for an enzyme-dosing application — last not least to the joy of gourmet goats.

Lanxess invests € 20 million in a new plant for high-performance plastics in Changzhou, China. From Q2 2019, the compounding plant is to produce up to 25,000 tons of Durethan- and Pocan-branded high-tech plastics for the automotive sector and the electric and electronics industry.