With an annual production capacity of 30,000 tons, the new ABS compound facility will be developed at LG Chem’s Ohio Tech Center site in the USA and is expected to meet the growing demand for high value-add ABS in the region. The company also intends to invest 100 million dollars for establishing its American and European Tech Center by 2023.

Mexico Pacific Ltd (MPL) has plans to use ConocoPhillips’ greenhouse gas emission reduction technologies to reduce emissions at its MPL LNG Project in Mexico. ConocoPhillips will be designing LNG trains for the project based on the OCP Pro technology and will also provide carbon-advantaged gas feedstock to help MPL develop a strategy for supplying carbon neutral LNG in the future.

KBR’s dual-pressure nitric acid technology has been selected by the Hanwha Corp. for its new 1,200 metric tons per day unit located at Yeosu in South Korea. The technology is expected to offer Capex and Opex benefits including efficient energy recovery.

Uponor Infra and Borealis have teamed up to create Ultra Rib 2 Blue, a high-performance plastic sewer pipe made from 50 % renewable raw material which will help to reduce the carbon footprint by up to 70 %. The product is based on Borealis’ Bornewables portfolio in which circular polyolefin products are manufactured with renewable feedstocks.

With an investment of 4-million-dollars, Teijin has plans to boost its highly heat-resistant carbon fiber prepreg production for aerospace applications in the USA by 2.5 times. The move is expected to meet the global market demands of high-performance materials used in the production of advanced aerospace solutions and industrial applications.

With an expected processing capacity of about 55,000 tons of mixed plastic waste annually, the new chemical recycling facility will be the first industrial chemical recycling site at the North Sea Port in Vlissingen, The Netherlands. The plant will be developed under a joint venture by Neste and Ravago and will be based on Alterra Energy’s thermochemical liquefaction technology. With this project, the companies aim to demonstrate and advance the commercialization of chemical recycling.

Cadent’s HyNet North West project which includes a new hydrogen pipeline network has awarded Wood consenting, environmental assessment as well as front-end engineering design (FEED) contracts for the project. The project is expected to produce, store, distribute hydrogen, and capture as well as store carbon from the industry in the North West of England and North Wales.

The Marchesini Group has acquired the Italian firm Dott. Bonapace which specializes in developing laboratory machines for R&D as well as small industrial production of consumables. With this takeover, the Group has entered into its first venture into the laboratory machinery market.

Chevron has updated its climate change resilience report in which it reveals that it has adopted a 2050 net zero aspiration for equity upstream Scope 1 and 2 emissions. The report also provides details on the firm’s new 2028 greenhouse gas (GHG) emission intensity target for Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions.

Elkem has plans to expand capacity at its Roussillon silicone upstream plant in France thus bringing the unit’s total capacity to 100,000 metric tons annually. The company will upgrade and debottleneck its plant to achieve this objective. The expansion is being carried out due to the growing demand for specialty silicones in EMEA and the Americas.