Lyondell Basell has commissioned the world’s largest propylene oxide (PO) and tertiary butyl alcohol (TBA) facility in Texas, USA. With a capacity of 470 thousand metric tons of PO and one million metric tons of TBA annually, the unit aims at optimizing production.

Gerhard Schubert will be presenting a wide range of packaging solutions at the upcoming trade fair of interpack 2023. Some of its most recent innovations include cobots for the rapid feeding of different packaging components on a line, an extremely compact filling machine for cosmetic products and an entirely new, efficient, resource-saving feeding system for carton blanks.

PROCESS Worldwide brings to you the ‘Top 10 plant engineering projects of February 2023’ from all over the world. Right from Europe’s most sustainable cracker securing a funding of 3.5 billion euros to Exxonmobil investing 2-billion-dollars for expanding its Baytown chemical plant in the US, find out all the projects making headlines here.

Bilfinger has been selected by The Lapwing Estate to develop a pilot plant. The new unit will be a part of the ‘reverse coal process’ developed by The Lapwing Estate. The process aims to convert CO2 emissions back into solid carbon while producing food with measurable positive environmental and social impact.

Exxonmobil has commenced operations at a large-scale advanced recycling facility in Baytown, Texas, USA. The unit has the capacity to process more than 80 million pounds of plastic waste annually and will make use of proprietary technology to break down hard-to recycle plastics in order to produce new plastic products.

KBR in partnership with Swedish Biofuels has introduced a sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) technology which can process ethanol as well as convert carbon dioxide and synthesis gas to produce SAF.

The Serum Institute of India (SII) has been producing more than 20 different types of vaccines and supplying it to numerous countries across the globe since ages but it was the biopharma company’s Covid-19 vaccine that made headlines amidst the Coronavirus pandemic. With state-of-the-art technologies and equipment, the production facilities at the firm’s Pune site in India meet the highest standards of various regulatory agencies. PROCESS Worldwide offers an insight into the world’s biggest vaccine factory.

GEA will be showcasing a wide range of solutions at the Interpack show in Germany. Some of the innovations to be exhibited at the fair include the Optirobot 6000 and the firm’s new solution – the Optibuffer.

Chemical, pharmaceutical and food producers, colleges and universities all over the world use them: Wet-milling technology has been revolutionized by WAB with the development of its horizontal agitator bead mills. At this year’s Achema, the resourceful Swiss company was presenting the latest generation of its Dyno-Mill UBM (Universal Bead Mill).

KBR’s technology has been selected for Enaex’s Hyex green ammonia project in Chile. The project is expected to produce green ammonia by making use of renewable energy from photovoltaic power plants.