Technological advancements are not new to the current phase of increasing efficiency and sustainability. Managing Director – Business Applications, Cement Sustainability Initiative (CSI), Philippe Fonta, talks candidly on the various aspects of increasing cement sustainability at a global scale and the specific roadmap that has been developed for India. Excerpts of the interview…

Evonik has become the maiden company across the globe to launch a 3D-printable Peek (polyether ether ketone) filament as an implant-grade material for medical applications. The Peek filament is based on a highly viscous and high-performance polymer from Evonik.

To fight the global pandemic of Covid 19 in the USA, Ineos has built two new hand sanitiser facilities in Arkansas and Pennsylvania. Both the plants are expected to produce 1 million bottles of sanitiser each per month in order to meet the shortage requirements.

Eni has sold the licence and basic engineering project to the Chinese company Sinopec, for the construction of a refining plant based on the Eni Slurry Technology (EST). The plant will be built at the Sinopec refinery in Maoming, in Guandong province.

Eagle Burgmann, a Joint Venture of the Freudenberg and EKK Group, has acquired Tianjin Nibot Seal Technology, the Chinese company in Tianjin, to 100 %, to boosts its strategic alignment towards the end user business in gas seals in China.

Akzo Nobel Specialty Chemicals and Gasunie New Energy have joined forces to investigate the possible large scale conversion of electricity into hydrogen via the electrolysis of water.

Arcanum announced plans for expansion of its Butene-1 production complex. The Company's flagship project, Raven, an on-purpose Ethylene-to-Butene-1 processing facility, is currently under construction in Baytown, Texas.

Sanofi wants to enhance the environmental performance and water management of its manufacturing sites together with Suez Environment. Under a new agreement., Suez will develop solutions for energy efficiency and water reccyling.

Pentair Valves & Controls launched two notable new products: the Biffi DCM2 communication device for remote actuator control and the Westlock Controls Digital Epic-2 valve-position transmitter.

The start-up completes the first phase of the Pyeongtaek project in which industrial gases will be supplied to Samsung Electronics' semiconductor facilities in South Korea. The project is Linde's largest single electronics investment on BOO basis.