With an aim to meet the growing demand, Kemira has announced that it is expanding its coagulant capacity in Fredrikstad, Norway. The scope of the investment includes the installation of a new reactor and increased storage capacity of aluminium hydroxide.

Eni has plans to develop the biorefinery in Livorno, Italy as soon as the Ministry of the Environment and Energy Security, in consultation with local authorities, issues the Single Authorization and the related building permit. The project is expected to have a production capacity of 500,000 tonnes per year.

Holcim recently held a groundbreaking ceremony for its Go4zero plant which is engineered to produce 2 million tons of net-zero cement per annum by 2029 in Obourg, Belgium. The planned investment for the project is more than 500 million euros.

Adnoc has achieved a 25 % increase in production capacity at its offshore Satah Al Razboot (Sarb) field, which is located to the Northwest of Abu Dhabi, with the help of advanced digital technologies.

Under a MOU signed between Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and Taiwan Fertilizer Co., both the companies will work together to conduct a joint pre-feasibility study that will explore the establishment of an ammonia value chain in Taiwan.

Adnoc has entered into a long-term Heads of Agreement with Osaka Gas under which it will deliver up to 0.8 million metric tonnes per annum of liquefied natural gas. The LNG will primarily be sourced from Adnoc’s lower-carbon Ruwais LNG project in Abu Dhabi, UAE.

Grupo Fertiberia chose Thyssenkrupp Uhde to reduce the carbon footprint of its existing ammonia plant in Puertollano, Spain. With this move, Thyssenkrupp Uhde aims to partially convert production from grey to green ammonia by injecting green hydrogen.

These are the birth pangs of a new economy: the increasing demand for chemical products is bringing growth to the industry, which at the same time has to cope with the necessary transformation towards climate neutrality. For chemical plant construction, both of these factors mean a lot of work in the coming years - in addition to enormous challenges, huge opportunities await.

Clariant’s deoxygenation catalyst from the Envicat Green series will be used to remove trace oxygen from green hydrogen produced at the facility, before conversion into green ammonia.

Suez and Hte have entered into a R&D service agreement through which both the firms will focus on the screening of various catalytic materials to convert biomass-derived feedstocks into sustainable gases.