Arxada has plans to make the hefty investment in its Kouřim-based industrial biotechnological plant in Czech Republic. With this move, the company will be able to provide important infrastructure debottlenecking in line with expanded technological options as well as be able to increase its formulation capacity in order to cater to its growing customer base.

Mitsui Chemicals and Microwave Chemical have launched a new initiative which focuses on commercializing a chemical recycling technique that uses the PlaWave microwave-based plastic degradation technology to directly break down hard to recycle plastics into raw monomers, thus, eliminating an intermediate step.

The CABB Group has established a unified organization ‘One CABB’ to accelerate growth as well as to serve its customers better. The company is also looking at a potential Initial public offering (IPO) to achieve its goal of strengthening its position as one of the premier contract development and manufacturing companies for crop science and life sciences. With the change in corporate structure, the Group’s business units Custom Manufacturing and Acetyls will be combined into one company structure.

Tranter’s NovusBloc welded plate heat exchangers have been selected for the expansion of a North American refinery. The plate heat exchangers are of different sizes and are made of 254SMO and 316L SS materials as well as a single Superchanger gasketed plate heat exchanger. The heat exchangers will be installed at the main production process to reduce CO2 emissions and is capable of handling flammable liquids and/or high temperature fluids.

BP’s ‘HyGreen Teesside’ project will produce 60 MWe of green hydrogen by 2025 with a potential to increase the production to 500Mwe ‎by 2030. With this project and in addition to the other existing project by the company i.e. the blue hydrogen project (H2Teesside), UK’s Teesside region is all set to become the country’s leading hydrogen hub to decarbonize industry ‎and heavy transport.

Pharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim opened a new tablet production facility in Ingelheim. Starting immediately, the Solids Launch Factory will manufacture all the company’s new drugs introduced in tablet form (solids). Digital tools are a crucial pillar of the new plant.

Tatneft will make use of Versalis’ technologies to develop new rubber plants at its Togliatti industrial site in Russia. On completion, the plants are expected to produce 70 thousand tons of nitrile butadiene rubber and 30 thousand tons of carboxylate styrene butadiene rubber latexes.

Under a Letter of Intent signed between Lummus Technology and Phigenesis, the Lummus new hope plastics pyrolysis technology will be used by Phigenesis in its new chemical recycling facility which is expected to have a capacity of 150,000 tons per annum. With the help of this technology, Phigenesis will recycle waste plastics to manufacture petrochemical feedstock materials. The project will significantly increase the current chemical recycling capacity in Europe.

Bilfinger Digital Next makes use of Ubirch’s blockchain-based solution in its data-driven optimization models for increasing the credibility and reliability of exchanged data which enables to increase plant efficiency.

Coromandel International has plans to set a new 1650 TPD sulphuric acid plant at its fertilizer complex in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India. The project is expected to improve the self-sufficiency as well as availability of phosphatic fertilizer in the country and will be built with the best global technology standards to control emissions.