Exxonmobil’s two new chemical production units at its Baytown, Texas manufacturing facility in the USA are expected to produce 400,000 metric tons per year of polymer modifiers and 350,000 tons per year of linear alpha olefins respectively.

Shinsol Advanced Chemicals, a joint venture between Solvay and Shinkong Synthetic Fibers Corporation, has launched a new electronic grade hydrogen peroxide plant in Taiwan. With this project, the joint venture aims to meet the growing demand for semiconductors in the country.

H2 Energy Esbjerg has awarded ABB with a contract to provide electrical engineering support for its green hydrogen production facility in Denmark. The new 1 GW facility is expected to produce 90,000 tons of green hydrogen per year.

Maag Group will be displaying a range of integrated solutions for the processing of polymers in the recycling process at the upcoming Plast show in Italy. Some of its product highlights include the Eco 500 high-performance melt filter from Ettlinger and the underwater pelletizing system Pearlo 350 EAC.

Lower carbon, bio-based and circular propylene glycol solutions have been launched by Dow in Europe. The move is in line with the growing demand for renewable materials which aims at reducing carbon and enabling circularity.

Eastman Chemical Company has plans to divest its Texas City Operations to Ineos Acetyls for 490 million dollars. Under the terms of the agreement, Eastman will retain ownership of its plasticizer business at the site.

Arkema has plans to incorporate a new purification technology at its Carling production site in France by 2026 with an aim to decarbonize its acrylics production and enhance the site’s operational efficiency.

BHS-Sonthofen has plans to showcase a new laboratory indexing filter, a compact version of the proven indexing belt filter along with the horizontal dryer of type HTC-T 140, which is used in many different production processes in the chemical industry.

Industries looking to adopt advanced digital technologies for their production plants will find augmented reality to be a real gamechanger. Plant maintenance with the help of remote offsite-experts as well as training activities for newly joined engineers or technical maintenance staff can be carried out without any difficulty with the help of this technology. The biggest plus points of using augmented reality: Reduced costs, reduced plant downtime, access to remote offsite-experts in real time and saving valuable time.

Total Energies has plans to construct a new mechanical recycling unit for plastic waste at its Grandpuits site in France. The new facility is expected to produce 30,000 tons a year of high value-added compounds and will contain up to 50 % recycled plastic material.