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.

The Maag Group along with Witte will present their first joint product development at Achema 2024 – the new Chem-X gear pump. The pump features an advanced gear tooth design which has been optimized for minimal hydraulic pulsation and maximum volumetric efficiency.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Evonik has plans to sell off its printable battery technology – Taettooz to Innovation Lab with an aim to commercialize the technology which can be used in the medical field for more convenient monitoring of vital functions.

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.