To reduce the time involved in setting up equipment and production lines, Ganter has incorporated a new coupling in its product portfolio. With the GN 1050 quick release coupling, components can be quickly and securely connected to a machine or device with just a click.

Calumet Specialty Products Partners has decided to revamp its existing hydrocracker unit at the Montana refinery in USA and will utilize Haldor Topsoe’s Hydroflex solution to produce 12,000 barrels per day of renewable diesel. The project is expected to produce renewable diesel in the spring of 2022.

Carbon Recycling International (CRI) has collaborated with Jiangsu Sailboat Petrochemicals to establish the Jiangsu Sailboat green methanol plant in China. Based on CRI’s ETL technology, the new unit is expected to recycle 150,000 metric tons of CO2 and 20,000 metric tons of H2 per year in order to produce 100,000 tons of methanol annually.

Nouryon has begun production at its new manufacturing facility in China to support the increasing Asian demand of polymers used in the packaging, paint and coatings and construction end-markets. The plant has an annual capacity of 35,000 tons and will produce two key intermediates – tert-Butyl hydroperoxide and tert-Butyl alcohol.

Pfeiffer Vacuum has introduced the new OmniControl universal control unit for pumps and measurement instruments. With this solution, one is able to easily control vacuum systems.

Ineos intends to develop electrolysis projects across Europe in order to produce green hydrogen. The first facilities are expected to come up in Norway, Germany, and Belgium while investments are also being planned in the UK and France. The hefty investment is claimed to be Europe’s largest in electrolysis projects.

PROCESS Worldwide brings to you the ‘Top 10 plant engineering projects of September 2021’ from all over the world. Right from building the world’s largest epichlorohydrin unit to investing 360 million dollars for establishing an API manufacturing unit, find out all the projects making headlines here.

BASF has introduced new catalysts for producing isopropyl alcohol efficiently. Apart from this, it has also launched a new catalyst for n-butane based maleic anhydride production which increases the efficiency in the biodegradable PBAT value chain, and lastly sustainable lightweight Selective Hydrogenation Catalysts have been developed for steam crackers and refineries.

Under a MOU signed between Haldor Topsoe and Shchekinoazot, both the companies will work together to reduce the carbon footprint of Shchekinoazot’s existing and future plants in the Tula region, Russia.

On October 1st, industrial gases specialist Messer took over operation of a nitrogen production facility at the Nowega site in Rehden, Germany. Nowega is one of the gas transmission system operators in Germany. The on-site facility allows continuous production of up to 13,000 normal cubic meters of nitrogen per hour at a discharge pressure of 70 bar. Nowega uses the nitrogen to ensure the supply of L-gas quality natural gas in its network area even in periods of peak demand.