The Ethylene Oxide and Propylene Oxide (EO/PO) pipelines will distribute feedstock to various business tenants in PlasChem Park, an industrial park in Jubail, Saudi Arabia to produce diversified specialty chemical products.

Haldor Topsoe’s demo plant will utilize its electrified steam methane reforming technology (eSMR) for producing sustainable methanol from biogas at a competitive cost as compared to other non-fossil fuels. Located at Aarhus University’s research facility in Foulum, Denmark, the unit is expected to have an annual capacity of 10,000l of CO2-neutral methanol from biogas.

Huntsman’s Performance Products division will be expanding its polyurethane catalysts and specialty amines production facility in Petfurdo, Hungary. The move is expected to increase the company’s global capacity and to provide innovative technologies for the polyurethane, coatings, metalworking and electronics industries.

With an estimated project cost of 950 million dollars, Renewable Energy Group has plans to upgrade its existing Geismar renewable diesel project in Louisiana, USA as well as expand the project in order to produce 340 million gallons of renewable diesel per year.

With an aim to build on its existing research co-operations with leading universities in China, Clariant has sponsored the National Catalysis Achievement Award till 2025 at the National Congress on Catalysis of China. This year, the award for outstanding R&D achievement in the catalysis field in China was received by Youchang Xie, Professor of Physical Chemistry at Beijing’s Peking University.

Under the terms of the agreement, Dow will design and engineer a new 10,000 ton per year market development unit at its Terneuzen site in the Netherlands. The development unit will make use of Haldor Topsoe’s PureStep technology to purify pyrolysis oil feedstock from waste plastics and advance the technology for industrial-scale purification of circular feedstocks to develop circular plastics.

Repsol has entered into an investment contract with the Portuguese Government for expanding its Sines Industrial Complex on the Portuguese coast. Claimed to be the largest industrial investment in the country in the past 10 years, the complex will also include the construction of a linear polyethylene unit and a polypropylene unit, each with an annual capacity of 300,000 tons.

Mehrer Compression introduces its TVx-Compressor Series to the North American markets. With this move, the company has made its series ready for the ASME world market.

Evonik’s new plant in Southeast Asia will be used for the production of methylate in the region. The move is in line with the company’s strategy to further strengthen its global alkoxides business especially in the Asian market inorder to become one of the world’s largest manufacturers of alkoxides.

Exxon Mobil has plans to establish the mega facility in Baytown, Texas, USA and will commence operations by 2022. With its proprietary advanced recycling technology, the company plans to scale up operations at the unit in order to supply certified circular polymers by the end of the year.