The new compressed biogas plant will be set up at Badaun in Uttar Pradesh, India and will use Praj’s Rengas technology to produce compressed biogas (CBG) from rice straw. The project is expected to process 35000 MT of rice straw as feedstock in order to generate 5250 MT of CBG every year.

Inox Air Products has won a contract from Arcelor Mittal Nippon Steel India to build its 5th cryogenic Air Separation Unit at the Hazira plant in Gujarat, India. The 41-million-dollar project is expected to produce 700 TPD of gaseous oxygen and 300 TPD of gaseous nitrogen along with other liquid industrial gases.

With the newly started up air separation units, Linde will supply gaseous oxygen and nitrogen to Wanhua Chemical's integrated chemical site and production center in Yantai, China.

The new unit is Air Products’ maiden cryogenic nitrogen plant in the Bayan Lepas Free Industrial Zone, Northern Malaysia. With this project, the company aims to cater to the booming demand from the electrical and electronics and other manufacturing industries in the region.

In the background of the recent winter storm Uri that hit the USA, IHS Markit is providing an update on the US oil and gas production as well as the refining and petrochemicals sector in the region.

The Chinese company Yangtze River Pharmaceutical (Group) Co. became one of the 12 organizations to win the EFQM Global Award this year. It is also the first pharmaceutical company in the world to receive the award after the implementation of the new EFQM model in 2019.

With a strong focus on customers and disciplined cost management, Nouryon has reported an increase in profit for the full year 2020. For the full-year 2020, revenue decreased by 4 % due to lower prices and volumes, while adjusted Ebitda increased by 3 % to 1,387 million dollars.

Under the terms of the agreement, Linde will build, own and operate the new liquid hydrogen infrastructure in South Korea. This also includes the construction of a liquid hydrogen facility which will have a capacity of over 30 tons per day.

On Wednesday, a fire occurred in the North plant section of BASF's Ludwigshafen site. This resulted in a leak of methyldiethanolamine and oxogas.

The process and packaging technology provider, Syntegon Technology, recently installed the first fully validated visual inspection system utilizing Artificial Intelligence (AI) in an automated inspection machine.