Latest News: Products
Accelerating Speed to Market and Sustainability Outcomes Using Digital Twins
An AI-driven digital twin has fundamentally altered the way new products are developed in the automotive sector Your product might be a game changer. But if it takes two years longer than your competitors to bring it to market, that’s…
Focus On: Level Measurement and Control
Solids level probes designed for durability and reliability The VRX series (photo) is engineered to provide dependable point-level detection for powders and bulk solids, even under demanding industrial conditions. A highly visible, onboard status-indicator light changes from green to red…
Show Preview: K 2025
Over 3,200 exhibitors from around the globe will be showing their products and services during K 2025 (Düsseldorf, Germany; October 8–15; www.k-online.com), the world’s largest tradefair for plastics and rubber. This year’s event will feature the K 2025 Start-up Zone…
Focus On: Pumps
A dispenser for abrasive and viscous fluids NEMO dispensers (photo) are designed for precise dosing and metering of abrasive and viscous fluids. With the ability to handle a wide range of viscosities, shear-sensitive materials and entrained solids, NEMO dispensers deliver…
Show Preview: Powtech Technopharm
The Powtech Technopharm exhibition (Sept. 23–25; Nuremberg, Germany) highlights all types of technologies for processing powders, solids and liquids. This year’s event boasts an exhibit hall and technical forums, all supporting interdisciplinary dialogues and hands-on technology demonstrations. The following are…
Focus on: Pipes, Tubes and Fittings
Reducing wear on pneumatic conveying lines This company’s Smart Elbow® serves to deflect high-speed solid material in pneumatic conveying lines, thus minimizing abrasion and wear on the surface of the pipe. The design is an alternative to a traditional sweep…
Focus on: Mobile Devices and Apps
Interoperability initiative for edge computing devices This company is the newest member of the Linux Foundation’s Margo Initiative (margo.org), a collaborative open-standards project designed to make edge applications, devices and orchestration software work together seamlessly across multi-vendor industrial automation environments.…
Refining Intelligence: Transforming Operations with AI
When challenged by fragmented knowledge and time-intensive manual analysis, artificial intelligence helped to accelerate decision-making during operational events Artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer a futuristic concept in the chemical process industries (CPI) — it is a present-day driver of…
Product Focus: Seals and gaskets
This pump packing has a modular design The AMPS (Advanced Modular Packing System; photo) is a pump packing system designed to offer superior sealing efficiency and significantly reduce leakage and downtime while extending equipment life. It has a focus on…
These new sealless pumps are corrosion and chemical resistant
This company has launched two new sealless pumps in its Ultrachem product line — the UCR and UCP Series centrifugal magnetic-drive pumps. The UCR Series (photo) is engineered for reliability in the most extreme chemical processing applications. Featuring pure ethylene…