With an aim to achieve a low- and zero-emission future, Orlen Unipetrol has restructured its business and intends to sell its industrial complex in Kolín as part of the process. The company is currently looking for interested investors and development companies who would like to purchase the site.

Schubert has introduced the compact lightline machine series which includes cartoners, case packers, picker lines and flow-wrapping machines. The series is ideal for mastering standardized packaging tasks with a high degree of efficiency.

Crippling energy and carbon costs along with a lack of tariff protection has led Ineos to announce the closure of two of its production units in Rheinberg, Germany. The company will also focus on preserving its remaining PVC operations in Rheinberg to support around 300 skilled jobs.

With everything changing around us right from the way we secure our knowledge, to communicating with people to the way the workforce across industries is being made to upgrade their existing skill sets to take on more productive tasks, one thing is certain: Change is constant. Smart technologies like Augmented Reality have not only entered the workforce but are transforming the workforce like never before.

Evonik’s expansion at its existing production site in Nanjing, China is expected to strengthen the company’s presence in China. The double-digit million-euro investment will support the introduction of new specialty amines to commercial scale.

Lummus and Resynergi have achieved a significant milestone with the commercialization of Resynergi’s Continuous Microwave Assisted Pyrolysis (CMAP) Modules. The technology has the ability to convert plastic waste into circular pyrolysis products significantly faster and more efficiently than traditional pyrolysis methods.

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries has been awarded an EPC contract for a Cyclo Olefin Polymer production plant by Zeon Corporation in Shunan City, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan.

Symrise has recently launched a new pentylene glycol production unit at its facility in Granada, Spain. With this project, the company offers European customers with a shorter supply chain for this solution.

Eni Storage Systems, a joint venture by Eni and Fib, has commenced the engineering phase for the development of an industrial project which will focus on the production of stationary lithium batteries in the Brindisi industrial area in Italy.

MOL Group has successfully completed its first circular feedstock test at its petrochemicals site in Tiszaújváros, Hungary. With this move, the company aims to convert circular feedstock, namely post-consumer plastic waste-based feedstock into high-quality polyethylene and polypropylene.