At yesterday morning’s press breakfast, Alfa Laval introduced a number of innovations that the company is exhibiting under the motto, “Make it Happen.” “If you want a product that guarantees more up time, Alfa Laval makes it happen,” said Sammy Hulpian, vice president of the process technology division. This mantra was repeated many times, whether you want to increase the energy efficiency of your process, reduce the waste produced, conserve water and more.

There are some substances you take no chances with — and one of these is phenol. When heated above 54 °C it becomes a viscous liquid that is highly toxic and hazardous. Therefore the SI Group was looking for safety phenol-handling applications.

Under the terms of the agreement, BP and China Resources Chemical Innovative Materials (CRC) will explore opportunities on PTA sourcing and the polyester value chain. BP will also be investing in CRC.

Dow Industrial Solutions plans to expand its propionic acid facility in Texas City, USA. The follows plant expansion follows debottlenecking projects completed at the Texas City facility in 2015 and 2017.

Caywon Pharmaceutical Group will become the first international pharmaceutical company to adopt Crowd Machine as the key enabling technology to power its Pharma 4.0 digital transformation initiative. The company seeks to accelerate the translation of biomedical advances into innovative products through “distributed partnering”.

Both the companies will jointly evaluate business opportunities for cooperation in exploration, production, gas and chemicals both inside and outside Brazil.

Instant food and flavour stimulants are barely conceivable without the use of aromas. For the composition of food and flavourings, the mixing process is quality determining. When it comes to characteristics like homogeneity, flowability and dissolving behaviour of food, the most important challenge for a manufacturer of mixers is to meet the customer´s core requirements.

KSB opens its's fifth manufacturing location in China: The company now manufactures gate and globe valves in Changzhou.

The new 140,000-square-foot manufacturing facility will be located in Carlsbad, California, U.S.A. Merck’s second unit in Carlsbad will cater to the firm’s Bioreliance viral and gene therapy service offering and boost its existing commercial viral vector and gene therapy manufacturing capacity in the region.

The newly launched KPHX liquid ring compressor has features that allow easy maintenance and low noise levels. Capable of generating pressures up to 12 bar, the KPHX was developed by Netherlands-based SIHI Group, part of Flowserve Corp.