At the Hannover Messe 2019 trade fair, seven leading suppliers from mechanical engineering, industrial automation and software announced the foundation of the Open Industry 4.0 Alliance. With this cooperation, the companies want to overcome proprietary solutions and give a decisive…
Air Liquide Engineering & Construction (Frankfurt, Germany; www.engineering-airliquide.com) entered into a partnership with Samsung Engineering, for the front-end engineering and design (FEED) study of a methanol production plant for Sarawak Petchem, a state-owned oil and gas firm established and owned…
Saudi Arabia’s Saline Water Conversion Corp. (SWCC) and Hyrec Technologies Ltd. (Urla/Izmir, Turkey; www.hyrec.co) signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to deploy Hyrec’s Osmotically Assisted Reverse Osmosis (OARO) technology for zero-liquid-discharge desalination in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The MOU…
For the first time in a lithium extraction project, Australia leaves all process steps from ore mining and separation to refining in the country. With its comprehensive technology portfolio, GEA Group AG (Düsseldorf, Germany; www.gea.com) is supporting its customer Albemarle,…
After the power-to-gas plant in Falkenhagen, Brandenburg, was expanded by a methanation stage in May 2018, synthetic natural gas (methane) has recently been fed into the natural gas grid. This allowed the partners of the international research project STORE&GO to…
Wood plc (Aberdeen, Scotland; www.woodplc.com) has been awarded a new contract by Sinochem Quanzhou Petrochemical for its 1MTA ethylene and refinery expansion project being built in Quanzhou, in the Fujian province of south east China. The contract grows Wood’s relationship…
Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com) is raising its European capacity of hydroquinone by 20%, enhancing the security of supply on three continents and to meet increasing demand for diphenol inhibitors used as additives by the monomer industry. This capacity expansion…
At €18.3 billion, incoming orders booked in Germany by members of the VDMA Large Industrial Plant Manufacturers ́ Group (AGAB; Frankfurt am Main, Germany; www.vdma.org) in 2018 were 3% up on the previous year (2017: €17.8 billion). In a volatile…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) today officially opened a pioneering research center at the heart of the Verbund site in Ludwigshafen, close to the famous Ammonia Lab. This new pilot plant facility for catalyst and process development will be operated…
Wacker Chemie AG (Munich, Germany; www.wacker.com) is launching its first U.S. based ACEO Open Print Lab. The new facility, located at Wacker’s Silicone R&D facility in Ann Arbor, Mich., is equipped with 3-D printers able to process a broad range…