LEWA - Metering Pumps, Process Diaphragm Pumps and Engineered Packages

Verderflex - Peristaltic Hose and Tube Pumps

GekaKonus - Plants, Components and Apparatus for Hot-Gas and Heat-Energy Generation and Recovery

Timm Elektronik - Control, Measurement and Data Processing Systems for the Petroleum and Chemical Industries

Elring Klinger - Customized High-Performance PTFE Plastic Components

MVR Evaporators Reduce Plant Operation Costs
Various evaporation techniques are used to concentrate fluids in wide ranging industries, including dairy, food, pharmaceutical and chemical.

Safety and Environmental Protection for Modern Spray Drying Plants
There are a number of major safety issues to be addressed in modern spray drying plants and each plant needs to be specifically designed for its particular purpose and conditions.

Web Shop Permits the Individual Configuration of Small Pumps
Placing orders in the evening or on the weekend is the order of the day for small companies. Unfortunately, so is waiting for an offer to be quoted and lengthy price negotiations.

Lewa-Nikkiso Expands its Presence in Life Sciences
At the end of March, Lewa-Nikkiso America, Inc. acquired Integrated Process Technologies, Inc. (IPT), a Massachusetts-based company specialising in the engineering, design and manufacture of high purity process systems.

Leonberg Pump Manufacturer Extending its Partner Product Portfolio
From now on, Lewa will market the progressing cavity and screw spindle pumps of Knoll Maschinenbau GmbH.

The SPX World of Industrial Drying Technologies
Through its Anhydro and e&e brands, SPX offers a range of drying technologies that meet the needs of wide ranging applications and...

Micromeritics' New 3Flex - Versatile High-Throughput Surface Area, Mesopore and Micropore Surface Characterization
The 3FlexTM Surface Characterization Analyzer is a fully automated, three-station instrument capable of high-throughput surface area and pore size...

New Verderflex Dura 45 Peristaltic Hose Pump
The Verderflex Dura 45 is the pathfinder in a new generation of medium flow, industrial hose...

Process Heating Systems: Gas and Oil Fired
Thermal fluid heating ('hot oil') systems provide high efficiency and low pressure operations for temperatures as high as 700 degrees...

Policy and Strategy
Assets in industrial environments generate or manufacture products for (internal and / or external) customers. The asset activity cycle describes the lifecycle of an asset, from concept to...

Energy and Efficiency: A Green Future for Chemicals
Manufacturers agree that improving energy efficiency is the best way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But for such a hugely energy intensive sector, boosting efficiency could also create very beneficial consequences for the company bottom line. Muriel Axford reports.

Mainstream chemicals: Enhancing oil recovery
Chemicals are now being relied upon to recover oil reserves as demand for the black stuff grows. Sarah Blackman finds out first-hand how surfactant-based technology is being used to retrieve trapped oil from hard to reach places inside a reservoir and how this process compares to other methods.

Green chemistry and the future of biofuels
As the importance of biofuels increase, scientists are working to refine the chemical methods of their production. Chris Lo explores some of the most promising recent innovations that are improving the chances of biofuels tapping into the mainstream.

Intelligent chemistry for mining: BASF invests in R&D
As new finds decline, the mining industry is looking to chemical companies to maximise the value of low-grade deposits. Julian Turner talks to David Timms, BASF's business director for performance chemicals Australia & New Zealand, and Dr John Farrow of the Australian Mineral Research Centre, about pushing the boundaries of intelligent chemistry for mining.

Stirring up the biofuel mix
The world's thirst for biofuel is growing but there is a clear conflict of interests when it comes to land use. With rising food prices as much of a global issue as climate change and energy security, Dr Gareth Evans finds out why recent chemical advances to help improve biofuel production could not be timelier.

Joule's SunSprings Biofuel Demonstration Plant, New Mexico
Joule Unlimited, a company based in Massachusetts, US, commissioned its first SunSprings Demonstration Plant located at Hobbs in Lea County, New Mexico, in September 2012.

Zhejiang Hengyi Petrochemicals' Refinery and Aromatics Cracker Complex
Zhejiang Hengyi Petrochemicals (Zhejiang Hengyi) will construct an integrated refinery and aromatics complex at Pulau Muara Besar, Brunei.

DuPont Tate & Lyle's Biochemical Plant, Tennessee
DuPont Tate & Lyle Bio Products, a joint venture (JV) formed between Tate & Lyle and DuPont in 2004, constructed a biochemical plant at Tate & Lyle's site in Loudon for manufacturing 1,3-propanediol (Bio PDO). The plant was commissioned in November 2006.

Songwon OPS (One Pack Systems) Plant, Texas
Songwon, the South Korean additives manufacturing company, is set to commission a new manufacturing plant for the production of OPS (One Pack Systems) in April 2013. The new plant is being constructed at Houston in Texas.

Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales Bolivianos's (YPFB) Fertiliser Plant
Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales Bolivianos (YPFB), the Bolivian state-owned oil company, will open a fertiliser plant at Carrasco in Cochabamba in 2015.