
Process Technology

With a change in top management, Viscotec is writing a new chapter in its highly successful company history. The long-standing Commercial Managing Director, Georg Senftl, will retire at the end of 2021. He will be succeeded on 1st July by 32-year-old Franz Kamhuber, who is currently responsible for global sales as Sales Director. For the next six months, Franz Kamhuber and Georg Senftl will...

Sesotec is a leading provider of intelligent technologies and services for foreign object detection, material sorting and analysis. The Lower Bavarian company is pleased to announce the latest addition to its management team. Since April 1, 2021, Dietmar Dieing has been leading Sesotec’s Plastics Industry division as its new Vice President of Sales. The 45-year-old Dieing is a technical business...

Primary packaging for solid and liquid drugs, as well as many other products, will benefit from the latest addition to the Thermolast M series. But Kraiburg TPE is also keeping abreast with the times organizationally: the service package that comes with the product ensures customers are always perfectly prepared for future rules and regulations.

Based on its recent analysis of the global liquid analyzer market, the market research and consulting firm Frost & Sullivan honored Endress+Hauser as the 2020 Global Company of the Year. The Group impressed the jury with its robust product line, customer-oriented approach and industry-leading knowledge of liquid analysis.

Mondi has successfully completed the implementation of a new state-of-the-art paper sack converting machine at its Nyíregyháza site in Hungary. The machine - a Windmöller & Hölscher AD 8320 / AM 8115 - allows the plant to produce a new line of sophisticated paper sacks for food packaging. The site will be capable of producing more than 130 million sacks annually. The Mondi Nyíregyháza plant, which...

With immediate effect, the valve specialist Gemü offers solutions for manufacturing diaphragm globe valves with PD design (Plug Diaphragm) as multi-port valve blocks made from stainless steel in a reliable process. The focus is on the requirements for "hygienic design" and cost effective process-optimized manufacture. It is possible with immediate effect to configure multi-port valves with...

In line with Coveris’ global strategy to be an industry sustainable leader, the company’s plants across Europe and Middle East are working continuously to reduce their environmental footprint. The latest example comes from Egypt where the plant is switching its electricity supply from diesel to hydropower eliminating CO2 emissions by more than 90% in 2020.

Trinamix, a wholly-owned subsidiary of BASF SE, announced the launch of a mobile near infrared (NIR) spectroscopy solution. Spectroscopy is a well-proven analysis method that trinamiX now makes affordable and accessible beyond factory and laboratory applications. Trinamix offers all the needed competences in a single, handheld device: mobile and robust hardware, precise data and material analytics...

Messe Düsseldorf is postponing the leading international trade fair Interpack. It will now take place from 25 February to 3 March 2021. In doing so, Messe Düsseldorf is following the recommendation of the crisis management team of the German Federal Government to take into account the principles of the Robert Koch Institute when assessing the risk of major events. Based on this recommendation and...

Viroclinics Biosciences, a leading virology contract research organization, announced that it has acquired DDL Diagnostic Laboratory, a leading diagnostic solutions provider. The transaction enhances the combined group's leading global position in anti-viral and vaccine testing and will serve to accelerate their ambitious growth strategy. Viroclinics was founded in 2001 and specializes in the...