Answering to the challenges imposed by industrial growth, the distillation, which is the most mature among separations regarding the applications and technology development, still manages to improve and from time to time a technology breakthrough occurs which moves this proven technology to a higher level of sophistication. The purpose of this presentation is to address the recent distillation equipment developments, particularly those BASF, Montz, and TU Delft were involved with. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.