Mobile Navigation

Latest News

These metal filter cloths have precise pore sizes

As is the case for all MiniMesh S metal filter cloths, the pore size of MiniMesh RPD HiFlo-S metal filter cloth can be calculated precisely in advance and adapted to the respective requirements. These precision pores can achieve extremely high…

Manage supply-chain solutions with this software portfolio

Symphonite is a comprehensive portfolio of supply-chain and production-management software services designed to boost reliability, responsiveness, agility and efficiency for a range of manufacturing industries. Symphonite is broadly grouped into two areas: Supply Chain solutions and Production Management solutions. New…

Remove debris from fluids with these upstream gasket strainers

This company’s line of strainer gaskets remove particulate matter and debris from process fluids. They are suitable for standard flanged connections and can be inserted upstream from sensitive and costly processing equipment. The gaskets may be deployed as a single…

Member Exclusive

Piping Codes: What the CPI Engineer Should Know

An overview of the codes and standards that are most pertinent to chemical processing facilities Moving a process fluid from one stage of its processing cycle to the next requires the transfer of fluids between pressure vessels, through pressure piping…

Evonik breaks ground in Austria for membrane-module production plant

Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) held a groundbreaking ceremony today for the expansion of its Austrian site in Schörfling, where the group will build another operations complex for producing gas separation membrane modules of its Sepuran brand. In addition…

Ube expands production capacity for Li-ion battery separators

Ube Industries, Ltd. (Ube; Tokyo, Japan; www.ube-ind.co.jp) has decided to expand its production capacity for lithium-ion battery separators at the Sakai Factory in Sakai City, Osaka Prefecture, in order to meet growing demand for lithium-ion batteries used in automobiles. The…

Global Bioenergies and Clariant begin producing bio-based isobutene

Global Bioenergies and Clariant are proud to announce the first isobutene production from a wheat straw hydrolysate, in the industrial pilot of Pomacle Bazancourt. This success is the result of a collaboration initiated more than 18 months ago, and has…

Novamont opens commercial-scale facility for bio-based BDO

Novamont (Novara, Italy; www.novamont.com), the Italy-based world leader in bioplastics, with 1,000 patents in biopolymers and biochemicals, announced they have opened the world’s first commercial-scale facility for the bio-based production of a major intermediate chemical, in Bottrighe (Adria), North East…

Jacobs wins contract for Vastly Manufacturing plant in Virginia

Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Pasadena, Calif.; www.jacobs.com) was awarded a contract from Vastly (formerly Tranlin, Inc.) to lead permit acquisition and provide design services for its new $2-billion manufacturing plant in Chesterfield, Virginia. The plant represents Vastly’s first investment in…

BASF opens polyvinylpyrrolidone production site in Shanghai

BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) celebrated the opening of a new complex for the manufacturing of polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP) located at the BASF site in Shanghai, China. The new plant will produce PVP K30 powder, a polymer used as a base for…