Process Technology

The Hydro PRS plant in Teesside is scheduled to go into commercial operation in 2024

Mura Technology celebrated the commissioning of the world's first Hydro-PRS plant in the UK with a pre-opening at the end of October 2023. Hydro-PRS stands for Hydrothermal Plastic Recycling Solution and is a chemical recycling process. Plastic waste is not incinerated, but simply converted back into crude oil in 30...

Expanded ethylene oxide and derivatives complex at BASF site in Antwerp

In line with its customer-oriented corporate strategy, BASF has expanded its capacities for ethylene oxide and ethylene oxide derivatives at the Belgian Verbund site in Antwerp. The investment increases BASF's production capacity for the corresponding products by about 400,000 metric tons per year. The investment of...

Clariant successfully inaugurates Daya Bay Exolit OP flame retardant plant

Clariant has officially inaugurated its new and state-of-the-art halogen-free flame retardants production facility in Daya Bay, Huizhou, in China. The investment of CHF 60 million in the plant's first production line gives local customers access to novel and sustainable Exolit OP flame retardants. It also brings strong...

Board member Peter Wilkes congratulates the new management team, Photo: Biesterfeld Group

Biesterfeld Spezialchemie, a business unit of the Biesterfeld Group, is bundling its business in the three overarching clusters "Industrial", "Consumer" and "Healthcare" with immediate effect. With the new structure and a newly created management level of Global Business Directors, the Group, which is one of the...

Groundbreaking ceremony for Covestro TPU plant in Zhuhai in Southern China

Covestro broke ground on its new Thermoplastic Polyurethanes (TPU) production site in Zhuhai, China. The investment had been announced in February. The new site will be built in three phases and is expected to achieve up to a maximum annual production capacity of 120,000 tons of TPU after the final phase of expansion....

Peter Browning (left), Solvay, and Weiming Zhang, Shengjian

Solvay and Shanghai Shengjian Environment Technology have signed a strategic partnership framework agreement to strengthen their business relations and expand into new markets. Based on over ten years of mutual success in important segments of the semiconductor, FPD, solar power and other growth industries, the...

The Purity Scanner Advanced from Sikora is used for inspection and sorting of plastic material

At Fakuma from October 17 to 21, 2023 in Friedrichshafen, Sikora will be presenting solutions for quality control in the pipe and hose and plastics industries. The trade show appearance is fully in line with the motto "Ideas, Passion, Future", which the company has developed on the occasion of its 50th anniversary. The...

BASF has started construction of a syngas plant at its Verbund site in Zhanjiang, China, which is scheduled to come on stream in 2025

BASF has broken ground for a syngas plant at its Verbund site in Zhanjiang, China. The new world-scale production plant, which is fully integrated into the Verbund site, is scheduled to come on stream in 2025. The chemicals group will use new process concepts in the syngas plant to reduce CO2 emissions compared with...

Built into the Cremer production line, the GLS metal detector from Sesotec helps to efficiently meet standards and requirements for safe and sustainable food processing

Cremer Sustainable Foods PTE is a new plant-based food production facility in Singapore and a joint venture between Cremer Nutrition (Germany) and Temasek (Singapore). With approval from the European Commission in December 2021, Cremer and Temasek's Asia Sustainable Foods platform have laid the foundation for Cremer...

The jury gave the accolade to the Shoulderflex bottle weighing a mere 5.9 grams

5.9 grams - The extremely low weight of the Shoulderflex bottle was the deciding factor for this year’s jury of the German Packaging Prize in the “Sustainability” category. That is because the Shoulderflex makes a crucial contribution towards reducing the carbon footprint of water bottlers by yielding material savings...