Air Liquide has plans to develop a new large-scale Air Separation Unit in Naoshima Island, Japan. The project is expected to meet the growing demand for copper as well as support the production expansion of Mitsubishi Materials.

After successfully completing a joint feasibility study, Lanzajet and KMG have decided to go ahead with the Front-End Engineering and Design for Kazakhstan’s first sustainable aviation fuel project.

Resman Energy Technology, a global leader in wireless reservoir surveillance solutions, will be acquired by global technology company SLB. With this acquisition, SLB aims to enhance its portfolio with world-class production and reservoir tracer technologies.

The global chemical industry is entering a period of profound uncertainty as higher tariffs and escalating trade tensions threaten to dismantle decades of globalization.

Arkema has launched its new battery dry coating laboratory in Normandy, France. The new laboratory at Arkema’s Cerdato Research Center is dedicated to exploring and advancing the dry coating process for battery electrodes.

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries has announced that it has achieved the target performance of over 99.5 vol % ethanol purity, which meets domestic fuel standards, at a pilot plant for membrane dehydration systems installed at MHI's Nagasaki Carbon Neutral Park within the Nagasaki District Research & Innovation Center in Japan.

The partnership between Arkema and Catalyxx aims to accelerate the production of low-carbon, bio-based acrylic resins by making use of proprietary technology. Catalyxx intends to develop an innovative industrial facility to produce bio-alcohols while Arkema is assessing the use of these bio-alcohols as feedstocks for the commercial-scale production of bio-based acrylic resins with lower carbon footprint.

KBR’s Pure M green methanol technology has been chosen by Fikrat Al-Tadweer for a biomethanol plant in Saudi Arabia. The project is expected to transform landfill-gas into clean fuels.

The Antwerp platform is an important industrial site for Total Energies and the company plans to reconfigure its petrochemicals operations to strengthen its competitiveness and to meet market challenges.

Numerous four-legged robot dogs are inspecting different spaces across the industrial plant; facility personnel are wearing head-mounted displays which helps them to get access to detailed information about an equipment or process in real time and diverse physical assets of a system or production process at the plant can be replicated into a virtual system, get ready for the plant of the future!