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Plant Watch: April 2025
Plant Watch Saint-Gobain Ceramics to construct catalyst carriers plant in New York March 11, 2025 — Saint-Gobain S.A. (Courbevoie, France; www.saint-gobain.com), through its subsidiary Saint-Gobain NorPro, intends to build a new manufacturing facility in Wheatfield, N.Y. With an investment of…
Facts At Your Fingertips: Corrosion Monitoring Using Weight-Loss Analysis
Effective measurement of corrosion on process equipment and plant structures offers several benefits to plant operators. These include providing early warnings about damaging process conditions that could lead to corrosion-induced failures, establishing correlations between changes in process parameters and their…
The industry’s most comprehensive biodegradability assessments — even for large polymers
For product developers, understanding a substance’s biodegradability is essential in many applications to ensure compliance with toxicity and environmental regulations. Aropha, Inc. (Cleveland, Ohio; www.aropha.com) has developed a platform for biodegradability testing that reaches far beyond the typical breadth of…
Temperature Measurement Optimizes Processes
Enhanced measurement capabilities offer more reliable control to boost quality, reduce waste and ensure safety As optimization, sustainability and safety initiatives continue to be a driving force in the chemical process industries (CPI), accurate, responsive and reliable temperature measurements are…
Promote Productivity with Proactive Pump Monitoring
By leveraging advanced analytics platforms, chemical processors are revealing pump trends and insights that help increase operational efficiency In the information age, centralized monitoring technologies offer countless benefits for the chemical process industries (CPI). Using data generated by sensors installed…
This drag conveyor is designed for quick and easy CIP
The new CablePro tubular drag conveyor (photo) is designed with components that offer chemical compatibility, including corrosion-resistant coatings and polished stainless-steel tubing. It is equipped with self-lubricating disks, which are injection-molded directly onto a pre-stretched, oil-lubricated stainless-steel braided cable with…
Focus On: Personal Protective Equipment
Coveralls for chemical and fire protection This company’s recently launched Tychem® 6000 SFR is a lightweight, hooded garment (photo) designed to help protect people working in challenging environments against multiple chemical and flash-fire hazards. Tychem garments may be suitable for…
Nanofibers dramatically increase catalytic activity for ultra-low-iridium electrolysis
Decreasing the dependence on expensive platinum-group metals like iridium is vital for the expansion of “green” hydrogen production via proton-exchange membrane (PEM) water electrolysis. Efforts to develop lower-iridium catalytic components for electrolysis have typically focused on mixing iridium into a…
Varo Energy to acquire Swedish energy firm Preem
VARO Energy (Zug, Switzerland) has reached agreement to acquire Preem Holding AB and Preem AB (Stockholm, Sweden), Sweden’s largest fuel company, through the purchase of 100% of the share capital of the parent company, Corral Petroleum Holdings AB (CPH), in…
TotalEnergies, Equinor and Shell launch the 2nd phase of Northern Lights CCS project
TotalEnergies SE (Paris) and its partners, Equinor and Shell, announced the Final Investment Decision (FID) of the second phase of the Northern Lights carbon capture and storage (CCS) development, which will increase the project transport and storage capacity from 1.5…