The American Chemistry Council (ACC) has reported that the Chemical Activity Barometer (Cab) fell 5.5 % in April on a three-month moving average basis following a downwardly revised 2.9 % decline in March.

Post the successful installation of a pilot fever-scanning cabin at the Kallo facility in Belgium, Borealis has plans to install the cabins at a number of other production units to protect its workers during the global pandemic of Covid-19.

A report by market research company, Techsci Research has forecasted that the global hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine market is projected to reach 285 million dollars in 2020 due to the increased use of the drugs in treating Covid-19.

In the present times, when strategies to ascertain workplace safety and environment conservation have become a necessity, fail-safe PLC systems can work wonders. These systems minimize the risks involved in critical applications where the possibility of hazards is high. The fault-tolerant architecture ensures that the failure of a component does not interrupt the process operation, thus ensuring safety.

Celanese announced an update with respect to the Ibn Sina joint venture and its construction of a 50,000-metric-tonne polyacetal manufacturing facility in Jubail Industrial City, Saudi Arabia.

Akzo Nobel announced the appointment of Renier Vree as Chief Financial Officer of its Specialty Chemicals business, effective March 1, 2018.

L&T Valves has been delivering end-to-end solutions to various world-scale oil & gas and power projects across the world – To put things in perspective, the company recently supplied over 150,000 valves in sizes ranging from ½-72" to a major refinery project. Here is an overview of the company.

Siemens recieves major order from Asia: The company will deliver a total of eighteen compressor trains for oxygen production sites in India and Inner Mongolia. The order volume is in the three digit million Euro range...

Aveva adds new functions for piping systems to its 3D plant design software product Aveva PDMS: The company states that the new functions increases the productivity of detailed design and documentation for all kinds of tapping, boss and similar connections...

At least 11 people have died and thousands have fallen sick due to a styrene gas leakage from LG Polymers’ chemical plant in Visakhapatnam, the southern state of India. The gas leakage occurred due to the negligence of factory workers amidst the coronavirus lockdown in India.