Under the new business strategy, Sabic will focus on petrochemicals and the Aramco Trading Company will focus on fuel products. Aramco acquired a 70 % stake in Sabic in June 2020 and now aims to make Sabic its chemicals arm.

The new screw vacuum pumps Dryvac DV 500 and DV 800 will be presented by Leybold in the spring of 2021. These vacuum pumps compress completely dry, i.e. without operating lubricant in the compression chamber and are therefore ideally suited as backing pumps in food packaging or in pumping sets in heat treatment or coating systems, as they have significant advantages over oil-lubricated piston or rotary vane vacuum pumps.

Covenant Energy has chosen Haldor Topsoe’s Hydroflex and H2bridge technologies for its renewable diesel facility in Canada. With the help of the technologies, Covenant Energy aims to produce the cleanest renewable diesel across the globe.

Ulsan PP has announced the start-up of its polypropylene production facility in Ulsan, South Korea. Claimed to be one of Asia’s largest polypropylene plant, the unit makes use of Lyondell Basell’s Spheripol PP process technology.

By 2019, China’s chemical production outstripped Europe and North America combined! The Middle Kingdom is dominating the Worldwide Chemical Segment already. What are the projections?

Toyo Engineering India has secured an EPCC contract from Performance Chemiserve for an ammonia plant project along with associated offsite and utility facilities in Navi Mumbai, India. The plant is expected to be complete by 2023.

PROCESS Worldwide brings to you the top 5 plant engineering projects of last week from all over the world. Right from constructing one of the largest electrolyzer plants in the world to building a world-scale blue ammonia facility, find out all the projects making headlines here.

The Maire Tecnimont Group and Leonardo have signed an agreement to develop next-generation greenfield and brownfield plants in Italy as well as around the world. The alliance will focus on three key areas – cyber security, digitalization, and decarbonization.

The year 2020 has confronted Feige Filling, one of the market leaders for filling equipment, with very special challenges: Within a very tight time frame and under pandemic conditions, seven fully- automatic fillers had to be planned and manufactured for a Chinese customer.

Nature Works has plans to establish a new fully integrated Ingeo PLA production facility in Thailand. Expected to have a capacity of 75,000 tons annually, the plant is scheduled to be completed by 2024.