Eastman has partnered with Hydrogenious LOHC to make the storage and transportation of hydrogen more secure, easier and affordable. The LOHC specialty product which ensures safe and easy logistics and storage of hydrogen is produced at Eastman's site in Marl, Germany.

A massive explosion occurred at the waste disposal centre of the chemical park operator Currenta in Leverkusen on 27 July. Black clouds of smoke could be seen over the city. At least two people were killed in the subsequent fire of a solvent tank.

Alfa Laval’s new DuraCirc circumferential piston pump offers high efficiency, reliable operation and meets the EHEDG guidelines for hygienic processes across the dairy, food, beverage, confectionery, and home-personal care industries.

Under a MOU signed between the Port of Corpus Christi and Howard Midstream Energy Partners, both the companies will work together to convert Howard’s Javelina refinery services facility located in the Port of Corpus Christi, USA into a carbon-neutral hydrogen production facility. The project is claimed to be the region’s first carbon-neutral (blue) hydrogen production facility.

GAIL will utilize Grace’s Unipol PP process technology for its 60 KTA polypropylene plant situated at its existing petrochemical complex in Pata, India. The technology contract also includes a catalyst supply agreement which will be used by GAIL to produce a variety of copolymer resins.

With an aim to strengthen industrial cooperation between the UAE and Japan and support the development of new UAE-Japan blue ammonia supply chains, Adnoc-Fertiglobe has delivered its third shipment to Japan this year.

Toray has established a new plant at its facilities at Prai Industrial Park, Penang in Malaysia. With this move, the company aims to boost the production and distribution capacities of its Toyolac Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene (ABS) resin transparent grade.

Gevo’s NW Iowa RNG (renewable natural gas) project is under construction and is expected to produce 355,000 MMBtu of RNG per year. Under the agreement with BP, the renewable natural gas will be sold into the California market in the US.

Bilfinger has been awarded a 20-million-dollar contract by Boehringer Ingelheim to design, prefabricate, construct, install and commission process equipment for the upstream and downstream processing of the vaccine production at its facility in Lyon-Jonage, France.

Toyo along with a consortium of Japanese companies have selected Velocys’ Fischer Tropsch technology for an e-fuels project. The companies have been commissioned by the Government of Japan to jointly commence a demonstration project which aims at commercialization of a sustainable aviation fuels supply chain based on carbon recycling and regional revitalization through CO2 recycling.