Chevron has plans to invest more than 10 billion dollars by 2028 to achieve its 2030 growth targets for new energy businesses such as renewable fuels, hydrogen, and carbon capture. This includes 2 billion dollars to lower the company’s carbon intensity operations.

The successful reference book for cost engineers is now available in English language. It provides an overview of the structure of cost estimates for the planning of brownfield and greenfield plants.

Brabender Technologie has introduced its latest feeder controllers – the Congrav CM-E 3.0 and Congrav CB-E 3.0. The new controllers can be integrated in Internet of Things and Industry 4.0 environments.

Wood has plans to build a new Methyl Methacrylate (MMA) production plant for Röhm on the site of OQ Chemicals in Bay City, Texas, USA. Work on this project is expected to be fully integrated with technology solutions provided by Aveva.

Kebotix’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) capabilities will aim to improve Johnson Matthey’s (JM) digital transformation in the chemical industry and combined they intend to discover innovative methods to increase the efficiency of experiments leading to the optimization of catalytic converter coating formulations.

Located in Japan, the new pilot facility for chemically recycling acrylic resin will commence pilot tests in the fall of next year and begin providing samples in 2023. Sumitomo Chemical also plans to develop a recycling system for PMMA (poly-methyl-methacrylate) which aims at early commercialization of chemically recycled PMMA.

KBR has plans to acquire Frazer-Nash Consultancy, a leading provider of systems engineering, assurance and technology advisory services, from Babcock International Group. The move is in line with KBR’s goal of delivering innovative, digitally-enabled solutions to governments and customers across the globe.

In the background of growing demand, Lanxess will expand its production capacity for light-color sulfur carriers at its Mannheim site in Germany. The additional capacity is expected to strengthen the firm’s market position in extreme pressure additives for the lubricants industry.

Orlen Unipetrol has revealed its development strategy until 2030 which includes the modernization of its chemical facility in Záluží near Litvínov, Czech Republic. In this project, the current boiler plant for the steam cracker’s operations is replaced with a brand-new gas boiler plant and the latest equipment for emission reduction installed at the unit has helped to lower dust emissions by 50 % and NOx emissions by 70 %.

In its most recent quarterly report, Cefic has revealed that the EU27 chemical output has returned to the pre-pandemic level but large differences still remain across countries. The key findings of the report have been highlighted here.