Koch Modular designed and manufactured 17 core process modules for Origin Materials’ first manufacturing plant (Origin 1) in Canada. Origin focuses on converting biomass to sustainable materials such as chloromethylfurfural (CMF) and it will make use of Koch Modular’s system to convert CMF into PET. The modules were installed at the plant six months ahead of schedule and will be completed by the end of next year.

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Venture Global has plans to invest more than 10 billion dollars for establishing a new LNG export facility (CP2) in the State of Louisiana, USA. This will be the fourth plant set up by the company in the state and it also plans to develop a CP express pipeline which will provide natural gas to the CP2 LNG facility.

Indian Oil Corporation’s 10 TPD bio-ethanol project will be based on the company’s own technology developed by its R&D team and Nuberg EPC will be responsible for the establishment of the bio-ethanol plant project in Panipat, Haryana. The project will produce ethanol for fuel blending, a move that is in line with the Government of India’s Ethanol Blending Fuel vision.

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Messer has launched a new on-site nitrogen unit for Energoaqua in Czech Republic. With this move, the company was able to eliminate CO2 emissions from tank trucks which were earlier used to deliver nitrogen gas to Energoaqua, thus leading Energoaqua to produce its nitrogen independently and with high supply reliability.

The American Chemistry Council (ACC) has recently stated that the U.S. chemical production expanded this year due to the post-lockdown spending surge which significantly increased the demand for chemicals. In this background, the U.S. chemical industry has a positive outlook going into 2022.

The Vogel Pharmaceutical Engineering International Forum (VPEIF) 2021 was successfully held on October 20-21 in Taizhou, China Medical City, China. Focusing on the latest trends in global pharmaceutical engineering, R&D, production, and quality management, the show comprised of one main session and five parallel sessions which were led by industrial experts and enterprises in the region.

Oriental Energy has licensed Grace’s Unipol PP process technology for its Maoming plant in China and Grace has also started up two 400 kiloton per annum (KTA) Unipol PP process technology lines in Ningbo, China for Oriental Energy to produce homopolymer, random and impact copolymers.

Under an Agreement of Intent, Maire Tecnimont and Rosneft have agreed to build a new VGO (Vacuum Gas Oil) hydrocracking complex at Ryazan's refinery in Russia. The project is expected to convert heavy petroleum products into Class 5 light commercial petroleum product, thus increasing Ryazan’s refining margins.