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Advanced Chemical Processing: Optimizing Mixing Technologies for Modern Manufacturing

In today's chemical manufacturing landscape, mixing operations represent a critical cornerstone of process efficiency and product quality. The selection and implementation of appropriate mixing technologies can dramatically impact production capabilities, consistency, and bottom-line results. This white paper examines the complex…

Winter-Proof Your Process: The Hydro-Thermal Heating Advantage

When temperatures drop, industrial water heating becomes a challenge. Maintaining precise outlet temperatures is critical in processing, and Hydro-Thermal’s Direct Steam Injection technology ensures instant, on-demand heating. This allows faster startups and reduces downtime—even in extreme cold. Unlike heat exchangers,…

Steel Belt Units for Medical Membranes

Medical membranes play a key role in certain aspects of healthcare and, with their range of applications now encompassing Covid-19 diagnostic tests, their importance is greater than ever. Most membranes used for diagnostics or liquid treatment are produced by means…

Moisture Measurement in Solid Materials

Determining moisture levels in solid materials is important for product quality, handling properties and other considerations. Provided here is an overview of direct and indirect methods for measuring moisture in solids Water is ubiquitous and is unusually reactive because of…

Granulating High Viscous Melts in the Food Industry

Ulrich Nanz, Sales and Marketing Director at industrial process solutions company IPCO, describes the particular issues involved in granulating high viscous melts used by the food industry and explains how Rotoform technology has been tailored to overcome these challenges. Food…

2020 Chemistry Nobel Prize awarded for genome editing tool

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (Stockholm, Sweden; www.kva.se) today announced that the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020 has been awarded to Emmanuelle Charpentier of the Max Planck Unit for the Science of Pathogens (www.emanuelle-charpentier-lab.org) in Berlin, Germany, and…

Recently Published Books for the CPI: July 2020

The following recently published books may be of interest to chemical process industries (CPI) professionals: Smart Manufacturing: Applications and Case Studies. Edited by Masoud Soroush, Michael Baldea and Thomas Edgar, Elsevier Press, 2020, 525 pages, $200.00. Analytical Design of PID…

Pfizer will acquire Array BioPharma

Pfizer Inc. (New York; www.pfizer.com) and Array BioPharma Inc. (Boulder, CO; www.arraybiopharma.com)  have entered into a definitive merger agreement under which Pfizer will acquire Array, a commercial stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery, development and commercialization of targeted small…

ACHEMA 2015: Primary packaging – enhanced safety features for sensitive drugs

Growth in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry continues at a dynamic pace. A large number of new diagnostic and therapeutic formulations are exiting from the development pipeline. 49 drugs which were placed on the German market in 2014 are based…

Efficient structures – rapid development: Automated formulation development saves time and reduces cost

Efficient formulation development leads to up to 60 % time and cost savings Modular or integrated solutions are available Qualified service partners provide own expertise Efficient systems for automated formulation development save valuable research time, and they can also reduce…