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A space-saving innovation for control boxes and cabinets

With this company’s new cover-installation concept for Ex control boxes and cabinets, users can install components directly onto the backside of the enclosure cover (photo), rather than on mounting rails deep in the control stations. Enclosures that are equipped in…

Remote, IoT-enabled monitoring of AODD pumps

SafeGuard (photo) is an IoT-enabled (internet of things) pump-monitoring system that remotely tracks, records and alerts users to key performance indicators — such as leak detection, stroke rate and total stroke count — of air-operated double-diaphragm (AODD) pumps during operation.…

A device for smart time-control applications

The new multifunctional MACX-TR timer relays (photo) make simple time-control applications smart. The combination of push-buttons and innovative OLED display allows easy operation directly at the device. As an option, NFC communication and the smartphone application (app) provide further setting…

Yokogawa establishes global bioeconomy business in Switzerland

Yokogawa Electric Corp. (Tokyo) has established Yokogawa Innovation Switzerland GmbH to build a strong base for its bioeconomy business through the provision of quick and proactive market research and development activities, and the introduction of cutting-edge biotechnologies. Business operations of…

Busch Vacuum provides compressor solution for wastewater-treatment optimization

Busch Vacuum Pumps and Systems announced that it has provided Mink claw compressor technology to help optimize the separation efficiency of sand as well as grease and oils for a sand trap at a wastewater treatment facility in Poppenweiler, a…

SUEZ to provide waste-management services for 20 Arkema sites in France

Building on their 12-year partnership, Arkema S.A. (Colombes, France) and SUEZ (Paris, France), are renewing their contract for the next three years, for a total of €38 million revenue. SUEZ will manage and recover around 60,000 tons of waste per…

Mitsubishi Chemical acquires two carbon-fiber recycling companies in Germany

Mitsubishi Chemical Corp. (MCC; Tokyo) recently decided to acquire two German carbon-fiber recycling companies, CFK Valley Stade Recycling GmbH & Co. KG (CFK) and carboNXT GmbH (carboNXT), through its subsidiary Mitsubishi Chemical Advanced Materials AG (MCAM; Zurich, Switzerland), as a…

Expectations are shifting: How measurement solutions can help overcome chemical industry challenges

EBOOK — Expectations are shifting: How measurement solutions can help overcome chemical industry challenges Environmental and safety regulations are tightening, yet you must grow revenue. Despite aging technology, you are expected to be more productive. Some of your most experienced…

SABIC to operate chemical plant on 100% renewable power

SABIC’s polycarbonate facility in Cartagena, Spain, is set to become the world’s first large-scale chemical production site to be run entirely on renewable power, following the signing of a major agreement with Iberdrola, a world-scale electric utility company. Iberdrola will…

U.S. chemical production fell in June, ACC says

According to the American Chemistry Council (ACC; Washington, D.C.; www.americanchemistry.com), the U.S. Chemical Production Regional Index (U.S. CPRI), fell by 1.1 percent in June on a three-month moving average (3MMA) basis following a 2.0 percent decline in May and a…