With an aim to further support its extreme cryogenics business, Air Liquide has taken over a majority stake in Cryoconcept, a firm specialising in dilution refrigeration. With this move, the company will be able to offer its customers with a complete range of products and services across the entire cold chain.

LG Chem claims that the new biodegradable material is the only biodegradable material with 100 % bio contents and is also the only material which offers mechanical properties equivalent to polypropylene.

In order to extract hydrogen from natural gas networks, Linde and Evonik offer a joint technology solution. The fully integrated, holistic solution combines different technologies for gas separation.

Showa’s new facility will be built in Guatemala and is expected to more than double the company’s existing glove production capacity as well as create approximately 300 new jobs in the country.

Siemens Energy and Linde Engineering have entered into a strategic partnership under which both the companies will make use of their portfolios to produce and optimise technologies as well as equipment to improve the sustainability footprint of petrochemical units.

The American start-up company Adaptive 3D develops premium polymer resins for additive manufacturing. Arkema’s investment in the firm will complement the company’s expertise in UV liquid resin material design and its commitment to accelerate 3D printing manufacturing technology development.

The Austrian engineering company Pörner signed a contract with Socar (State Oil Company of Azerbaijan Republic) for the design and supply of a Biturox plant for the Heydar Aliyev Refinery in Baku.

Under a Letter of Intent recently signed between BP and Ørsted, both the companies will work together for the ‘Lingen Green Hydrogen’ project in which they will jointly develop a 50 MW electrolyser. The mega electrolyser project is expected to produce one tonne an hour of green ‎hydrogen.

Imperial’s new cogeneration unit located at the Strathcona refinery near Edmonton, Alberta in Canada is expected to reduce provincial greenhouse gas emissions by 112,000 tonnes annually. The project is scheduled to meet 80 % of the refinery’s electricity requirements.

Maire Tecnimont Group’s Nextchem and Indian Oil have recently entered into a MOU under which the oil major will utilise Nextchem technologies for the development of industrial projects in order to boost the circular economy in India.