The need to serve growing global populations while meeting stringent environmental requirements is more pressing than ever before. To meet these conflicting challenges, most of the world’s leading agrochemical and fertilizer producers rely on ANDRITZ to ensure reliable uptime and…
Enhanced automation solutions with IIoT technology like the proven Metris addIQ control systems from ANDRITZ have been tailored and installed for municipalities and industrial companies in all kinds of solid/liquid separation applications for some time now, and with great success.…
Linde (Guildford, U.K.; www.linde.com) announced that it has started up a new gas production facility supplying methane, hydrogen and carbon dioxide to Evonik Industries' second world-scale methionine complex on Jurong Island in Singapore. The new plant complements an existing facility…
When Lubrizol needed a safe, cost-efficient alternative to a titanium grade 2 case experiencing corrosion, ANDRITZ stepped in with a special FRP centrifuge casing tested at a shooting range. Develop a safe, cost-efficient alternative to titanium grade 2 case…
In the chemicals industry, there is no room for compromises. Not just in terms of safety and product purity, but also when it comes to non-stop performance. And as technologies and global supply chains become more complex, ANDRITZ has proven…
Today, Röhm GmbH (Darmstadt, Germany; www.roehm.com) successfully completed the carve-out from Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com). Evonik Industries’ Methacrylate Verbund is thus transferred to its new owner, Advent International GmbH (Frankfurt am Main, Germany; www.adventinternational.com), as an independent company.…
Conventional plastics are difficult to recycle because end-of-life processing generally is either energy-intensive or alters the physical properties of the materials. A team of researchers from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley, Calif.; www.lbl.gov) and the University of California at…
Hypersaline industrial wastewater brines are difficult to treat. Current approaches for removing salt from such brines — such as evaporative distillation and reverse-osmosis (RO) — are problematic because evaporation is highly energy-intensive and RO cannot handle salt levels present in…
Plant Watch Oxea to build new carboxylic acids plant in Germany July 6, 2019 —Oxea (Monheim am Rhein, Germany; www.oxea-chemicals.com) is building a new world-scale production plant for carboxylic acids in Oberhausen, Germany. When brought onstream by the end of…
The latest valves are designed to last in challenging chemical applications, increasing uptime and safety As operational efficiency and safety continue to be top priorities in the chemical process industries (CPI), processors are demanding increased reliability from their equipment, and…