Solvay has secured 100 % ownership in its rare earths joint venture firm by acquiring the remaining shares from Santoku Corporation. The move is expected to strengthen the company’s global ambitions of leveraging its industrial and technical capabilities in Rare Earths chemistry for mobility, connectivity and electrification.

Asahi Kasei has partnered with Kurashiki City to evaluate and demonstrate the performance of a biogas purification system at a sewage treatment plant in Kurashiki, Okayama, Japan. The system is expected to refine high-purity methane gas by removing CO2 from biogas utilizing Asahi Kasei’s newly developed adsorbent, which selectively adsorbs CO2.

PT Kilang Pertamina International has plans to use Grace’s Unipol PP technology for its Trans-Pacific Petrochemical Indotama Olefin Complex Development Project in Indonesia. With this project, the firm intends to increase its refinery and polyolefin capacity.

Shell and Petronas have undertaken a final investment decision to develop the Rosmari-Marjoram gas project in Malaysia. The project is expected to produce 800 million standard cubic feet of gas per day (MMscf/d) and production is expected to begin in 2026.

Valmet has invested around 18 million euros for enhancing its press felt production units in Finland. With this move, the firm has purchased new machinery and equipment for its facility.

Koch Fertilizer will carry out an optimization project at its nitrogen facility located in Dodge City, Kansas, USA in order to increase UAN production at the site by 35,000 tons annually.

Inosim has introduced Version 13 of its Process Simulation Software which offers Inosim Bicon. This enables one to better analyze the complex, dynamic behavior of the production plant and its interdependent processes. The latest version also comes with the Inosim Foresight system which forecasts the future state of a plant, based on high-precision digital twins.

Mc Dermott has secured a Pre-Feed contract from Woodside Energy for the H2Perth project in Western Australia. Under the terms of the contract, the company will provide the services for a large-scale production facility for renewable and lower-carbon hydrogen and ammonia.

The cost of natural gas for industrial heating processes, electric power and HVAC is rising while emissions controls also grow more stringent. Engineers must adapt and learn how to better control the calorific value of their gas feeds to optimize industrial heating processes. Controlling your burn reduces consumption, costs and emissions.

Toyo India has been awarded an Engineering, Procurement, Construction and Commissioning (EPCC) contract for a 2.50 MMTPA Vacuum Distillation Unit at Indian Oil Corporation’s (IOCL) Gujarat refinery in India.