Under the terms of the agreement, Exxonmobil’s MTBE Decomposition Technology will be included in Axens’ portfolio for producing high purity isobutylene. Axens will also be responsible to market, license and provide engineering work and technical support for the design, construction and start-up of new MTBE Decomposition facilities.

HF Sinclair has chosen Topsoe’s Hydroflex technology for producing renewable fuels at three of its facilities in the USA. Sustainable diesel produced from these plants will be used to cater to the transportation market in the country.

Leybold has introduced the Multi-VAControl, an intelligent process controller which has the ability to control, monitor and synchronize pumps in central vacuum systems as well as in Roots pump systems. The solution also provides data for quality management.

Lyondell Basell and AFA Nord have plans to establish a joint venture company LMF Nord under which a mechanical recycling plant will be built in Northern Germany. The facility will process linear low-density polyethylene and low-density polyethylene waste into quality recycled plastic materials which can be used for flexible packaging.

Food packaging is one area where plastic is used in abundance as it keeps food fresh for a longer period of time, is cost effective and flexible in nature. With the plastic menace looming over us, it’s time to switch to more eco-friendly materials which deliver more sustainable food packaging options but what does this mean for packaging machine manufacturers in the food sector? Read on to find out…

PROCESS Worldwide brings to you the ‘Top 10 plant engineering projects of April 2023’ from all over the world. Right from UAE’s first large-scale methanol production facility to Emerson automating one of the world’s largest ethane crackers, find out all the projects making headlines here.

Clariant’s new Amomax-Casale ammonia synthesis catalyst offers exceptional activity, stability, as well as energy efficiency and has been used at three ammonia production facilities – Nutrien in Trinidad and Tobago, Mosaic in the USA, and Yara Sluiskil in the Netherlands.

Sasa Polyester Sanayi has selected Honeywell’s Oleflex technology to build the world’s largest propane dehydrogenation unit in Yumurtalık, Turkey. On completion, the facility is expected to produce 1-million-tons of propylene annually.

Koch Fertilizer has decided to revamp its Fort Dodge facility in the USA in order to increase its ammonia production capacity by 85,000 tons per year. Thyssenkrupp Uhde and Johnson Matthey have been selected by the company to achieve this goal.

The Hope project aims to build an offshore hydrogen production plant with a capacity to produce up to four tons a day of green hydrogen. Plug Power will be designing and delivering a 10 MW PEM electrolyzer system for this project which has received a 21.8-million-dollar grant from the European Commission.