Rhône Energies has entered into a sales agreement with Esso for acquiring its Fos-sur-Mer refinery as well as its Toulouse and Villette-de-Vienne terminals in France. With this acquisition, Rhône Energies intends to capitalize on the refinery’s existing skilled teams and strong manufacturing performance.

Cepsa Química has developed the first renewable energy traceability system for the manufacture of chemical products. This has also been validated by Aenor, the Spanish Association for Standardization and Certification.

Evonik’s Eudragit polymers have been used as coatings to create more effective drugs for 70 years. Over the decades, the portfolio of methacrylate polymers has established itself as the industry standard with more than 23,000 patents and 10,000 scientific publications mentioning the Eudragit brand.

CF Industries has announced a carbon capture and sequestration project at its Yazoo City, Mississippi, Complex in the USA. The company has collaborated with Exxonmobil for the transport and sequestration in permanent geologic storage of the CO2.

Avina Clean Hydrogen has selected KBR’s sustainable aviation fuel technology Puresaf for its US facility which aims to produce 120 million gallons of sustainable aviation fuel per year. KBR will also provide front-end engineering design for the facility.

Researchers from BASF, the Austrian Research Centre of Industrial Biotechnology and the University of Graz in Austria have jointly developed a fundamentally new computer-assisted model which can improve enzyme performance as well as enable new biocatalytic production processes to be scaled up quickly.

Merck has plans to sell its surface solutions business unit to Global New Material International Holdings for 665 million euros. With this move, Merck will use the net proceeds from the divestment to further strengthen its strategic core businesses.

Green hydrogen is viewed as an important element that can help industries to move closer to their energy transition goals and at the same time decarbonize their operations as well. Although green H2 offers many benefits but storage and transport still remain a challenge. Experts have suggested storing green hydrogen in the form of ammonia to overcome this challenge but is it truly an ideal solution? Read on to know more…

The new report published by the Nova Institute highlights that it is crucial to replace fossil-based naphtha with alternative naphtha in refineries and crackers with an aim to defossilize the chemical industry.

Metso has plans to acquire Jindex, an Australian company specializing in valves and process flow control. With this move, the company aims to strengthen its slurry handling offering.