Siemens has entered into an agreement to acquire Altair Engineering, a global leader in computational science and artificial intelligence software. With this move, the company intends to strengthen its position as a leading technology firm.

Lummus Technology has partnered with Advanced Ionics for accelerating the commercialization of Advanced Ionics’ hydrogen electrolyzer technology. The move will help support the decarbonization efforts in the refining, gas processing and petrochemical industries.

Nayara Energy has chosen Grace’s Unipol PP process technology for its new 450 kilotons per annum polypropylene plant in Gujarat, India. With this, the company aims to produce an entire range of PP grades suitable for resins in pharmaceutical, health and hygiene industry applications.

Organized by Informa Markets, CPHI & PMEC India is currently being held at the India Expo Centre, Greater Noida, Delhi-NCR in India. The three-day trade show which began from November 26 serves as a dynamic hub for innovation and collaboration and has also brought together over 2,000 exhibitors and 50,000 visitors from more than 150 countries.

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Heidelberg Materials has awarded Fluor with a Feed contract for its Gezero project which aims to integrate an industrial-scale carbon capture and storage solution into its cement production facility in Geseke, Germany.

Qair has plans to develop an e-methanol production project Methavert at the Haropa Port site, in Le Havre, France. The facility is expected to initially produce 200,000 tonnes of e-methanol to support the decarbonization of maritime transport and other high-emission and hard-to-abate industries.

Repsol will supply three truck-loads, totalling 60 tons of bio-LNG to Brittany Ferries LNG-fuelled vessels. The deal is claimed to be the first supply of its kind in Spain.

Adnoc has entered into a 15-year, 1 million tonnes per annum sales and purchase agreement with Sefe Marketing and Trading Singapore, a subsidiary of Germany’s Sefe Securing Energy for Europe. With this, Adnoc has secured its first long-term sales and purchase agreement for the Ruwais liquefied natural gas project in Abu Dhabi.

With the growing demand for high-quality 2-Ehacid in the region, BASF Petronas Chemicals has successfully inaugurated the second 2-ethylhexanoic acid production line at its integrated site in Kuantan, Malaysia.