Earlier this year, GEA Pavan successfully handed over a seventh production line for manufacturing breakfast cereals to polish breakfast cereal producer OBST. Both companies have been working in a close partnership for 20 years.

A feature on the Indian process sector’s ability to conform to Industry 4.0 – Industry 4.0 has become a keyword for the engineering world as a whole. However, it is a challenging leap that comes along with various challenges. With industry experts’ views on the several challenges and possible solutions, we have tried to find out whether the Indian process sector is ready to embrace Industry 4.0.

Chemieanlagenbau Chemnitz (CAC) has signed a contract with Ciech Soda Deutschland for the construction of a turnkey crystallization plant.

Schlumberger will be drilling rigs and also providing services for 146 gas wells and 128 oil wells according to the contract. Enhanced processes along with the usage of the latest technology will also be implemented in these mega projects.

Neste Engineering Solutions’ Nexpinustm technology has been selected by Fintoil for its new CTO fractionation unit in Finland. The company has also been made the engineering partner for the plant which is expected to start-up by 2022.

Under the collaboration, Moderna will manufacture its mRNA-1273 vaccine to fight the novel coronavirus. The aim of the partnership is to enable manufacturing of up to 1 billion doses of mRNA-1273 per year. The first batches of the vaccine are expected to be manufactured at Lonza’s U.S. facility in July 2020.

Southern Power Generation has awarded Pöyry an owner's engineer services assignment for a 1,440 MW combined cycle power plant in Johor, Malaysia.

Air Products announced the next phases of expansion to build two more nitrogen plants serving Samsung Electronics’ giga fab in Pyeongtaek City, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea.

With a capacity of 1.5 MMTPA, the complex has incorporated feedstock integration with Jamnagar refineries in Gujarat to provide sustainable cost advantage over global peers.

Mitsubishi Chemical under its subsidiary firm Mitsubishi Chemical America has plans to acquire Gelest, an American organic and inorganic hybrid chemicals manufacturer. Both the companies have entered into a definitive agreement for this purpose.