Roger Highton, MTL Product Line Manager at Eaton, reviews the challenges faced by modern processing plants and how a pioneering approach to marshalling can deliver big benefits.

Digital twins ensure competitiveness. This is the experience of numerous users in the process industry who are working with a solution developed by Siemens and Bentley Systems. Bart Moors from Siemens and Alistair Stubbs from Bentley Systems describe what makes this platform unique and, furthermore, how they can help customers to advance their digital maturity.

The consortium has entered into a joint development and cooperation agreement to establish a commercial plant which will produce olefins and aromatics from plastic waste. Synova and Technip Energies’ combined technology will be used for the plant which will be integrated with Sabic’s steam cracker.

Machine learning can create the basis for higher plant availability, says Richard Irwin, Senior Product Marketer for Asset Wise at Bentley. But the implementation of such systems must be well-prepared. Only then can real added value be created.

Larsen & Toubro (L&T) has recently commissioned a new green hydrogen plant at its AM Naik Heavy Engineering Complex in Hazira, Gujarat. Expected to produce 45 kg of green hydrogen daily, the facility’s first phase comprising 380 kW alkaline electrolyzer has been installed, while the PEM electrolyzer along with solar plant capacity augmentation will be installed in the future.

Bill Anderson has been selected to become the next CEO of Bayer from June 1, 2023. He will succeed the current CEO of Bayer Werner Baumann who retires at the end of May.

Bayer will be developing a new R&D facility at its Monheim site in Germany to strengthen its Crop Protection business. With this, the firm aims to support regenerative agriculture by developing and bringing to market new Crop Protection solutions.

If you are keen on upgrading your capsule filling machine, read this space. With the global capsule filling machines market predicted to reach 440 million dollars by 2025, many new interesting features including dosing precision, in-line control of critical quality and handling of difficult products have been enhanced in these machines.

BASF has recently introduced two new hydrogenation catalysts to its E 15x series – the sulfur-resistant E 15x S catalyst and the novel low-density E 15x L catalyst family. The E 15x S family optimizes the processing of contaminated feedstocks while the E 15x L catalyst family minimizes precious metal loading.

The Smart Factory has received an important boost at Merck. Soon, the company will have a live system based on MTP (Module Type Package) automation in production for the very first time. In this way, the specialty chemicals group aims to become a leader in modular production systems. Marc Dittmann, Process Development, Senior Engineer Electronics Integrated Supply Chain at Merck KGaA, explains his company’s work on the Enpro project.