GEA Group AG (Düsseldorf, Germany; www.gea.com) has been awarded a follow-up contract by Utkal Alumina to build a third line of multi-stage falling-film evaporators at Uktal’s alumina refinery in Orissa, India. GEA already delivered the first two evaporator lines with…
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to have an unprecedented impact around the world and needed medical, health and hygiene products are in short supply. After assessing the company’s capability to manufacture hand sanitizer at its facilities around the world, Dow (Midland,…
Aveva (London; www.aveva.com) announced that it has acquired production accounting software from South Korean based company MESEnter to extend Aveva’s value chain optimization solution. MESEnter’s software offering, previously branded MES ENTER ErrorSolver and now rebranded Aveva Production Accounting, has been…
Ube Industries, Ltd. (Tokyo, Japan; www.ube-ind.co.jp) announced that it will establish a joint venture company by joint incorporation-type company split with Mitsubishi Chemical Corp. (MCC; Tokyo; www.m-chemical.co.jp) to succeed the electrolyte business for lithium-ion rechargeable battery and other applications of…
Dow (Midland, Mich.; www.dow.com) recently held a signing ceremony for its Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for collaboration with the Zhangjiagang Free Trade Zone in Jiangsu province, China. By facilitating expansion at Dow’s signature manufacturing site in Zhangjiagang with potential investments…
Nouryon (Amsterdam, the Netherlands; www.nouryon.com) is expanding its partnership with Sumitomo Chemical Corp. (Tokyo, Japan; www.sumitomo-chem.co.jp) to include a new plant that Sumitomo is building at its site in Oita, Japan. The new plant will supply a key raw material…
John Sinks has been appointed as CEO of Magnum Systems (Lanexa, Kan.; www.magnumsystems.com), a North American equipment manufacture of bulk solids pneumatic conveying and packaging automation systems. John has been in the industrial business sector for his entire career, with…
The right mix of data collection, analysis, visualization and alerts can make the very daunting task of maintaining hundreds of pieces of equipment a simpler and more effective process Chemical manufacturing is a labor- and capital-intensive process that is both…
Yokogawa Electric Corp. (Tokyo; www.yokogawa.com) announced that it completed the acquisition of all shares in Denmark-based Grazper Technologies ApS (Grazper), as mutually agreed. Grazper has developed advanced artificial intelligence (AI) technologies for analyzing images, and Yokogawa aims to leverage these…
The Power-to-Fuel project, led by Liquid Wind (Gothenburg, Sweden; www.liquidwind.se), will establish commercial-scale renewable fuel facilities. The Consortium (consisting of Axpo, COWI, Carbon Clean Solutions, Haldor Topsoe, Nel Hydrogen and Siemens) will combine their expertise and technology to produce liquid,…