By allowing maintenance professionals to visualize vibration on entire pump systems, video vibration analysis and motion magnification can help to rapidly diagnose vibration issues Video vibration analysis, and motion magnification in particular, is democratizing complex system-level vibration testing by making…
Plant Watch Solvay resumes soda-ash expansion in Wyoming November 11, 2022 — Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com) plans to resume the construction of its soda-ash capacity expansion in Green River, Wyo. The investment totals around $200 million, and the expansion…
Ecolink (photo) is an online portal for remote monitoring and control of this company’s industrial odor-neutralization systems. With this advancement, users can now manage their equipment from anywhere with any device capable of hosting a web browser, such as a…
HN Series Hydro Cyclones (photo) are designed to separate sand and other solids from water using centrifugal force. HN Series Hydro Cyclones are suitable for use in pre-filtration applications in membrane water-treatment systems. The HN Series is offered in three…
LanzaTech, Inc. (Skokie, Ill.) and Sumitomo Riko Company Ltd. have entered into a joint-development agreement to reuse rubber, resin and urethane waste for the production of a key chemical intermediate, isoprene. Isoprene is produced by plants, and along with its…
Sponsored by Well over eight billion tons of plastic have been produced worldwide in the last 70 years, most of it since the turn of the millennium. Careless use of plastic has escalated into a global environmental problem. Unfortunately, the…
LG Chem (Seoul, South Korea) will construct an innovative carbon mitigation facility that will produce raw materials for plastics using carbon dioxide to build its foundation to achieve 2050 Net Zero. LG Chem will construct a DRM (Dry Reforming of…
Covestro AG (Leverkusen, Germany) recently started up the production of Naphthylen-Diisocyanate (NDI) for the Vulkollan raw material at a newly built plant in its Map Ta Phut site in Thailand. The groundbreaking of the plant happened almost exactly two years…
Invista (Wichita, Kan.) announced that INVISTA Nylon Chemicals (China) Co. held the inauguration ceremony for its new adiponitrile (ADN) plant at the Shanghai Chemical Industry Park (SCIP). Being a critical part of INVISTA’s integrated nylon 6,6 value chain, the plant,…
Axens (Rueil-Malmaison, France) announced the signature of a Joint Commercial Cooperation Agreement (JCCA) with Chiyoda Corp. (Yokohama, Japan). The purpose of this cooperation is to facilitate hydrogen supply chain projects via methylcyclohexane (MCH) (1) as Liquid Organic Hydrogen Carrier (LOHC), and promote…