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Two French companies have teamed up to improve the microbiological control of a heat process for flours through the use of surrogate bacteria.

• Flours

Bacon’s cancer-promoting properties can be avoided by replacing nitrates commonly used in the curing process with polyphenols found in green tea, according to a report by Queen’s University Belfast researchers.

• Tea
• Cancer

Honeywell has announced the launch of its first industrial cyber security centre of excellence (COE) at its Middle East headquarters in Dubai. The centre offers a safe off-process environment to test and demonstrate process control network ...

• Honeywell
• Dubai

Indena, an Italian company specialised in the isolation, development and bulk-manufacturing of APIs from natural sources, recently opened a new kilolab dedicated to HPAPIs (natural, semisynthetic and total synthetic) in Settala (Italy). ...

• Indena
• Kilolab
• API

American chemicals firm, Hexion, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with China’s Kangde Composites Co. Ltd. (KDC) to collaborate in the development of high volume carbon fibre production methods for use in the automotive and other markets.

• Collaboration
• Hexion
• Kangde

American conglomerate, 3M, recently opened a new innovation centre in Washington, D.C. to showcase how 3M science is solving some of today’s biggest challenges. The company said the centre will highlight solutions for specific customer needs and enable...

• 3M
• US

Ecolab, the US-based provider of water, hygiene, and energy technologies and services, has sold its phosphonate component business in China that was acquired as part of its 2015 Jianghai acquisition to Italmatch Chemicals S.p.A.

• Ecolab
• Phosphonate
• Italmatch

French industrial gases supplier, Air Liquide, and 10 large Japanese companies, representing several industries and finance, have announced the creation of the “Japan H2 Mobility” consortium for the purpose of accelerating the deployment in Japan of...

• Japan
• Hydrogen
• Carbon Free

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• Echemi
• Daily

Rockwell Automation Inc has updated its HMI software to equip industrial workers with better information to run and maintain their systems. New features in the FactoryTalk View software version 10.0 include greater access to information, new mobile device

• Rockwell

Oil giant Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) has announced plans to move further downstream by building the world’s largest integrated refining and chemical site in Ruwais, United Arab Emirates.

• Oil
• ADNOC

The demerger scheme for Ratnagiri Gas and Power Pvt. Ltd. and Konkan LNG Pvt. Ltd. has been approved by the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT).

• India
• LNG

The Linde Group has signed a sale and purchase agreement with Gazprom Export LLC, for the offtake of helium from Gazprom’s new Amur helium plant. Gazprom Export LLC is a 100 percent subsidiary of OAO Gazprom.

• Linde
• Helium

ONGC Videsh Ltd. (OVL), a wholly-owned subsidiary of ONGC, has announced that the Government of Mozambique has accorded approval for the Development Plan for the Golfinho-Atum natural gas field in the Area 1 block located in the Rovuma Offshore Basin ...

• OVL
• India

The government will reportedly consult Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) and Oil India Ltd. (OIL) before taking away their discovered small fields for next round of auction to private players, in a bid to avoid row between state firms’ executives and...

• India
• ONGC
• OIL

Matix Fertilisers and Chemicals is reportedly set to start production of its stalled fertiliser plant by April. Promoted by the Kanodias of Datamatics group, the 1.3-million-tonne urea plant near Panagarh in West Bengal – the only one in the East ...

• Fertilisers
• India

Under the direct benefit transfer (DBT), the fertiliser subsidy will be released to the fertiliser companies, instead of beneficiaries, after the sale is made by the retailers to the beneficiaries, Mr. Rao Inderjit Singh, Chemicals & Fertilizers Minis

• India
• Fertiliser

Prices of 851 essential drug formulations were cut, mostly in the 5-40% range, in the past 2 years, the government informed recently.

• India
• Price

As a part of this jv, the venture called AB VET, will be funded by Bal Pharma to develop Akaal Pharma’s intellectual property (IP) in th...

• Akaal
• Bal

The new strategic plan adopts a multi-pronged approach which aims to detect all TB patients with an emphasis on reaching TB patients see...

• Tuberculosis
• Inida