Clariant has signed definitive agreements to divest its 50 percent stake in the joint venture which owns Scientific Design Company to its long-term joint venture partner, Sabic.

Maire Tecnimont has signed an EPC agreement with Rosneft for developing the Vacuum Gas Oil (VGO) Hydrocracking Complex at the Ryazan Refining Company’s production site in Russia. On completion, the complex is expected to have a capacity of 40,000 barrels per day.

LanzaJet will be developing the world’s first alcohol-to-jet sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) production plant in Soperton, Georgia, USA and has recently secured investments from the Microsoft Climate Innovation Fund. The Freedom Pines Fuels plant is expected to produce 10 million gallons of SAF and renewable diesel annually from sustainable ethanol in 2023.

With this investment, Cemex plans to increase its hydrogen injection capacity across its cement operations while reducing the consumption of fossil fuels leading to the decarbonization of its processes. Hiiroc has introduced a technology that makes use of thermal plasma electrolysis to convert biomethane, flare gas, or natural gas into clean hydrogen at a lower cost than other existing solutions.

Lummus Technology has won a contract from Lukoil for a new integrated methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE) and alkylation plant at the company’s refinery in Perm, Russia. Under the terms of the contact, Lummus will license its methyl tertiary butyl ether and alkylation technologies for the project.

BASF has plans to develop a new hexamethylene diamine (HMD) plant in Chalampé, France which will help to expand the company’s HMD production capacity to 260,000 metric tons every year. The firm is also planning to expand its polyamide 6.6 business in Freiburg, Germany.

Thyssenkrupp Uhde Thailand has secured an engineering services and proprietary equipment supply contract for an Esterification plant from a major oleo and specialty chemicals producer in Asia. thyssenkrupp Uhde’s advanced batch reactor technology will be used for the project.

Exxon Mobil and Sabic announced the successful start-up of Gulf Coast Growth Ventures world-scale manufacturing facility in San Patricio County, Texas.

Sinopec has recently completed the construction of China’s maiden megaton carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) project – the Qilu-Shengli Oilfield CCUS. With this, the company plans to reduce carbon emissions by 1 million tons annually.

The increasing number of mRNA therapies and vaccines is fuelling demand for plasmid DNA. To meet this demand, Wacker Biotech has developed a proprietary technology platform for plasmid production, which is used at the newly acquired biotech site in San Diego and offered under the name Plasmitec.