‘Big Pharma’ looks beyond developed economies: Major growth will be achievesd in Latin America, Asia and Eastern Europe, new VFA-figures indicate…

And the winners are: Borealis has announced the winners of its 2011 Borealis Student Innovation Awards. On January 19, 2012 Alfred Stern, Borealis Senior Vice President Innovation & Technology, presented Rana Qudaih and Dr. Said Mehdiabadi with their awards, certificates and monetary prizes at the Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, Austria.

The mega project, Hydrogen to Humber Saltend (H2H Saltend), is expected to produce hydrogen from natural gas and will also utilise the carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology. With this project, the UK aims to develop the world’s first net zero cluster by 2040.

Turning Danube water into pure process water: The reverse osmosis facility at the Slovnaft oil refinery in Slovakia utilises 630 Lewabrane RO B400 HR membrane elements for water treatment. Read how this plant performs.

Anellotech’s unique plastic recycling technology ‘Plas-Tcat’ has the potential to convert single-use plastics directly into basic chemicals. The technology has been funded by R Plus Japan which has been recently established by 12 cross-industry partners within the Japanese plastics supply chain.

According to the latest forecasts in Cartridge Filters: World Market published by the McIlvaine Company, the market for cartridges in the food and beverage industry is expected to rise to US $ 800 million in 2020 in actual dollars taking into account projected inflation.

Jiangsu Sailboat Petrochemical Company has accepted a new methanol-to-olefins (MTO) unit provided by Honeywell UOP — the plant is operating and has met all guarantees. With a production capacity of 833,000 metric tons per year, the unit is the largest single-train MTO unit in the world.

BP and Socar Turkey Enerji have entered into a licensing agreement for BP’s latest generation purified terephthalic acid (PTA) technology.

Trinseo marked the opening of its new pilot plant and solution-styrene-butadiene rubber (S-SBR) capacity expansion at Schkopau, Germany. The production expansion adds additional 50 KT of S-SBR capacity to the site and increases the company’s global S-SBR production by 33 %.

In a significant step forward to bring continuous processing technology to a broader pharmaceutical customer segment, Gea has repositioned its Consigma portfolio to ensure that new drugs can be brought to market as quickly and cost-effectively as possible.