OMV Petrom has plans to develop two green hydrogen production plants at the Petrobrazi refinery in Romania. With a total capacity of 55 MW, the plants will be established with a total investment amount of approximately 140 million euros.

With the expansion of the Rhenodiv production plant in Jhagadia, Gujarat, Lanxess’ Rhein Chemie business unit has significantly increased its production capabilities. The move will help the firm to meet the growing demand of the Indian Sub-continent and the Asian tire and rubber goods markets.

The world-scale carbon dioxide liquefaction plant will be built on-site next to Yara’s existing ammonia plant in Sluiskil, the Netherlands. The project is a key part of Yara’s clean ammonia initiative, in which 800,000 tons of CO2 will be captured, liquefied, loaded onto special ships every year and then subsequently locked away permanently below the seabed off the coast of western Norway.

It dyes jeans blue, is found in PUR foam and rocket fuel and is extracted from naphtha on a scale of millions of tons: Aniline. The versatile basic chemical is set to turn green thanks to bioprocess engineering - a project in Leverkusen shows how straw can be turned into plastic

Under a ‘Heads of Agreement’ signed between the two parties, LG Chem and CJ Cheiljedang will work together to establish a joint venture which will focus on the production and sales of bio-nylon.

Qatar Energy and Chevron Phillips Chemical recently held a groundbreaking ceremony to develop a 6 billion-dollar integrated polymers complex in Ras Laffan Industrial City, Qatar. The project is expected to include the largest ethane cracker in the Middle East and one of the largest in the world.

Emerson has been selected by Lyondell Basell to modernize automation technology at its Wesseling site in Germany which is the firm’s largest manufacturing facility in Europe. With this move, the company aims to enhance the operations of its ethylene cracker and butadiene production plant.

The same developments happening in the rest of the world are also reshaping laboratories: the increasing use of technology, digital tools and, of course, robots and artificial intelligence (AI). All these trends often go hand in hand with a greater awareness of environmental issues. In this trend report, we present a summary of the fruits these developments are already bearing and will bear in the future.

A European developer has awarded Aker Carbon Capture with a study to assess the feasibility of integrating carbon capture at numerous biomass and waste-to-energy facilities in Northern Europe.

The world's first PET biorecycling plant will be built in Longlaville, France and is expected to have a processing capacity of 50,000 tons of post-consumer PET waste per year. Carbios' technology will be used for the enzymatic depolymerization of PET waste while De Smet will be in charge of project management and detailed engineering for the project.