PROCESS Worldwide brings to you the ‘Top 10 plant engineering projects of July 2024’ from all over the world. Right from EET launching Europe’s first hydrogen-ready combined heat and power plant to Air Liquide’s innovative technology chosen for a world-scale CCS project, find out all the projects making headlines here.

BASF has introduced its biomass balanced ecoflex, a polybutylene adipate terephthalate that is frequently used in the compounding of biopolymers. The new ecoflex F Blend C1200 BMB has a 60 % lower Product Carbon Footprint than the standard ecoflex grade.

Lallemand's subsidiaries, Danstar Ferment and Lallemand Specialties have acquired BASF’s bioenergy enzymes business which is based in San Diego, California, USA. With this move, BASF will continue to focus on its enzyme activities in the animal feed and detergents markets.

BASF has successfully inaugurated its second polymer dispersions production line at the Daya Bay site in Huizhou, China. The move is expected to meet the growing demand of high-quality dispersions in the country.

Under the new role, Christine Grosse Lembeck will be responsible for further growing BASF’s comprehensive solutions along the battery recycling value chain for battery producers, battery cell manufacturers and OEMs.

BASF uses certified biowaste raw materials to replace fossil resources at the beginning of the production process. Also, the firm makes use of electricity from renewable sources for the manufacturing of the ammonia and urea products, further reducing their production-related emissions.

BASF has plans to expand its advanced additives plant at its Nanjing site in China. The expansion will include a production line, for high-performance Controlled Free Radical Polymerization dispersants, with state-of-the-art production processes.

Under an agreement between BASF and International Process Plants (IPP), IPP will market ammonia, methanol and melamine plants which are located at BASF’s Verbund site in Ludwigshafen, Germany.

BASF has plans to expand its e-coat manufacturing facility in Mangalore, India. With this project, the company aims to manufacture the latest generation of e-coat products which offer lower consumption, increased efficiency, and higher reactivity for electric vehicles.

With chemical and chemical processing industries aiming to forge ahead in their automation and digitalization drive to develop their respective ‘Factory of the future’ or ‘Smart factory’, one thing is certain – it can’t be done without the use of robots at least for the time being. The concept of robots is not new but they have been transformed time and again to meet the challenges of today’s industrial plants especially with regard to plant inspection as well as maintenance and it won’t be wrong to term this phase as the ‘return and rise of robots.’