Stamicarbon has entered into a license agreement to develop a basic engineering design package for a 450 MTPD green ammonia plant in the USA. Based on the Stami Green Ammonia technology, the plant will produce green ammonia which can be used as feedstock for nitrogen-based fertilizers.

Wood has secured a contract for front-end engineering and design as well as EPCM solutions for Europe’s largest high-purity manganese processing facility in Czech Republic. The project is part of the Chvaletice Manganese Project.

Under a letter of Intent signed between both the parties, BASF will supply Neopentyl Glycol from its Zhanjiang Verbund site in China to KHUA which has plans to develop a 100 kilotons per annum production plant for high-end powder coatings resins in Donghai Island.

Russell Finex recommended its Russell Compact Sieve to a major pharmaceutical company that wanted to expand one if its manufacturing plants. The existing unit manufactured general oral solids and the firm now wanted to include the production of injectables and oncology oral solids in it. For this, it required a high-capacity vibrating screen to ensure that the highest quality of the final product was met.

Gerhard Schubert will be presenting a wide range of packaging solutions at the upcoming trade fair of interpack 2023. Some of its most recent innovations include cobots for the rapid feeding of different packaging components on a line, an extremely compact filling machine for cosmetic products and an entirely new, efficient, resource-saving feeding system for carton blanks.

Exxonmobil has commenced operations at a large-scale advanced recycling facility in Baytown, Texas, USA. The unit has the capacity to process more than 80 million pounds of plastic waste annually and will make use of proprietary technology to break down hard-to recycle plastics in order to produce new plastic products.

Under the terms of the agreement, Nova Chemicals and Plastic Energy will conduct a feasibility study to develop an advanced recycling facility in Ontario, Canada. If approved, the facility is expected to be the largest of its kind in Canada with a potential initial capacity of 66 kt per annum.

Merck has plans to expand the production capacity of reagents at its Nantong site in China. The move will help the firm’s customers to gain access to highly-purified reagents in order to carry out quality control and testing.

Technical studies for Brooge Energy’s green ammonia project in the UAE has been completed by thyssenkrupp Uhde. The project will be making use of thyssenkrupp nucera’s alkaline water electrolysis and thyssenkrupp Uhde ammonia synthesis technologies.

BASF and Yara have plans to conduct a joint study in order to assess the development of a world-scale low-carbon blue ammonia production facility in the U.S. Gulf Coast region. If approved, the project is expected to have a total annual capacity of 1.2 to 1.4 million tons.