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Help feeding nations with chemical filtering technologies
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…
Not at the forefront of Industry 4.0?
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 starts up gas-production plant at Evonik’s methionine complex in Singapore
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…
100 hours less downtime annually with a bulletproof centrifuge
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…
Confident that you still rely on the very best solution for production of your chemicals?
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…
Roehm to continue as an independent company
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.…
‘Green’ chemistry winners
The challenge to create more sustainable and environmentally friendly processes and products is one that many individuals and companies are taking on, and progress continues to be made. Goals such as reduction in raw material use, water conservation, renewable energy…
A powerful tool to analyze MOFs
An international team, including staff from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (Kaist; Daejeon, South Korea; www.kaist.ac.kr), led by Kaist’s professor Jeung Ku Kang, has developed a technology to analyze the gas adsorption behavior of molecules of each…
Chementator Briefs
Solar desalination Researchers at Rice University (Houston, Tex.; www.rice.edu) working on nanophotonics-enabled solar membrane distillation (NESMD) have found that concentrating sunlight on small areas of the desalination membrane leads to a non-linear improvement in performance in vapor pressure, which forces…
Microbial electrolysis produces hydrogen from organic waste
A modular, fuel-cell-like assembly featuring specially developed microbial communities is capable of producing pure hydrogen from a wide range of organic wastes. Developed by startup company Electro-Active Technologies (Oak Ridge, Tenn.; https://electroactive.tech), the microbial electrolysis system is now in the…