Karl Williams outlines how a novel lifecycle approach to security management is setting a new process industry standard.

Hartmut Wallraf, Chief Technology Officer with Invensys Process Systems Europe, Middle East and Africa, looks at wireless technology and what the future holds for it. The chemical process industry faces the challenge of supplying a fast growing and ever more demanding global population with the products we need. According to its website, Otto Simon is a young, dynamic company whose aim is to offer excellentlong-term service to its customers. Upbeat outlook as Achema showcases process industry The world’s population has tripled in the last century, but its use of water has increased by a factor of six. This means that while our planet today has the same amount of water as it did a million years ago, there are now six billion people competing for that asset. From October 2007 all existing UK processing plants and power stations will have to comply with the EU’s IPPC directive 96/61/EU, which aims to improve the management of industrial processes and ensure a higher level of protection for the environment.  An important part of this legislation is reducing fugitive emissions, which will have significant consequences for all processes in any factory. As the European Commission plans to overhaul EU legislation on air quality, further tightening emissions ceilings, a new pan-European quality standard on emissions testing is encouraging many industries to review current systems and invest to remain compliant in the future. The European market for rheology modifiers in paints is gaining momentum with the gradual recovery of the European economy that began in late 2003 and continued through 2004, ending three years of economic stagnation that preceded. Servomex operations are divided up into three regions: Europe, Africa and the Middle East (EAME); the Americas; and Asia-Pacific. If not quite exasperated, Thorsten Arnhold is at least rueful about what the latest EU Atex directives have meant to his company. Stopping unscheduled downtime is one of the core objectives of organisations that own and operate process manufacturing facilities, utilities and other major assets and infrastructure. The new managing director of the Automation and Drives business of Siemens, Juergen Koehler, has assumed responsibility for one of the world's leading supplier in automation, industrial control and electrical distribution equipment. As best available technology in solvent recovery, cryogenic systems are not only capable of ensuring near zero emissions, across a range of processes and solvents, they can also help plants to enhance their sustainability and minimise some of the costs associated with waste disposal.