Merck has plans to acquire the chemical business of Mecaro which produces heater blocks and chemical precursors for semiconductors. With this move, the firm aims to expand a key segment of its Semiconductor Solutions portfolio.

Siemens made its presence felt at the Achema 2022 trade fair through the show’s Green Innovation Zone and Digital Hub. The company focussed on the topics of chemical recycling and hydrogen at the event.

Encina has made a revolutionary move by producing high purity aromatics entirely from end-of-life mixed plastics. The company aims to manufacture ISCC+ circular chemicals by making use of 450,000 tons of mixed plastic streams from landfills.

Baker Hughes has launched a new oilfield services chemicals manufacturing facility in Singapore which will manufacture, store and distribute chemical solutions for upstream, midstream, downstream and adjacent industries. The automated unit is in line with the firm’s goals of reducing carbon and supports Singapore’s national sustainability movement ‘Green Plan 2030’.

The American Chemistry Council (ACC) recently stated that the U.S. Chemical Production Regional Index rose by 0.2 % in July following a 0.1 % decline in June and a 0.4 % gain in May.

PROCESS Worldwide brings to you the ‘Top 10 plant engineering projects of September 2022’ from all over the world. Right from the world’s first demo plant for electrically heated steam cracker furnaces taking off to Dow and Mura developing Europe’s largest advanced recycling plant in Germany, find out all the projects making headlines here.

Under an agreement signed between both the parties, BASF will purchase Arcus Greencycling Technologies’ pyrolysis oil which has been created from mixed plastic waste. The chemical firm intends to use the oil as a raw material in its production plants for manufacturing high-quality polyamides.

Lyondell Basell and Kirkbi have invested in APK to become minority shareholders of the firm. APK has developed a unique solvent-based recycling technology which separates different polymers of multi-layer packaging materials and produces recycled materials which can be used for new packaging materials.

BASF, Sabic and Linde have begun construction work on the world’s first demo plant for large-scale electrically heated steam cracker furnaces in Ludwigshafen, Germany. With this project, the consortium aims to reduce CO2 emissions in the chemical industry by at least 90 % as compared to other technologies of today.

Perstorp is working on an innovative project which will assist the company to make use of wastewater from a nearby municipal treatment plant for its production operations in Stenungsund, Sweden. The project is expected to save 1.1 billion liters of fresh water annually.