Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) is setting aside € 100 million for the topic of digitalization and is also entering into a strategic partnership with IBM and the University of Duisburg-Essen, aimed at forging ahead with the digital change…
PT Chandra Asri Petrochemical Tbk (CAP; Jakarta, Indonesia; www.chandra-asri.com) has awarded a material supply agreement to CB&I (The Woodlands, Tex.; www.cbi.com) for the revamp of existing furnace facilities at CAP’s naphtha cracker plant. Both companies signed basic and detailed engineering…
Realistic test conditions form a basic prerequisite for the successful development of Industry 4.0 applications for the process industry. Yet, developers frequently do not have access to this crucial process data. This situation is to be redressed with a new…
SUEZ (Paris, France; www.suez-environnement.fr) has launched Organix, the first digital marketplace for organic waste. This platform can connect producers of organic waste (food industry manufacturers, cooperatives and so on) and methanation unit operators, who transform them into energy. They can…
Abengoa (Seville, Spain; www.abengoa.com) has signed contracts to develop a desalination and irrigation project in the Agadir region of Morocco. The project, valued €309 million, involves the construction of a desalination plant with a 275,000-m3 total production capacity of desalinated…
After a construction period of a year and a half, Covestro AG (Leverkusen, Germany; www.covestro.com) is prepared to commence operations in a new production facility for high-quality, multilayered flat films at the Dormagen site. The total investment of around €20…
Following the acquisition of U.S. firm Chemtura in April 2017, specialty chemicals company Lanxess AG (Cologne, Germany; www.lanxess.com) has revised its organizational structure. The two business lines Rubber Additives Business (RAB) and Colorant Additives Business (CAB) now both belong to…
AkzoNobel (Amsterdam, the Netherlands; www.akzonobel.com) has announced the acquisition of U.K.-based Flexcrete Technologies Ltd. and an agreement to acquire French manufacturer Disa Technology (Disatech). The deals will further strengthen AkzoNobel’s global leadership position in supplying innovative industrial coatings and aerospace…
Reiner Block (52) is the new CEO of TÜV SÜD AG’s (Munich, Germany; www.tuev-sued.de) Industry Service Division, in which the international provider of quality, safety and sustainability solutions has pooled its engineering services designed to ensure the safe and reliable…
The following is a list of selected recently published books that may have interest to professionals in the chemical process industries (CPI). Standards and Typical Specifications for Tray-Type Dearators, 10th ed., by the Heat Exchange Institute (HEI), www.heatexchange.org, 2017, $150.…