Toray has developed a new recycling process for glass-fiber-reinforced polyphenylene sulfide resin waste from injection molding processes. PPS created with this recycling process has the potential to deliver a 45 % lower carbon footprint that the original PPS.

The publication of the ‘EU Chemical Industry Transition Pathway’ by the European Commission has given a concrete direction to the European chemical industry to work in. The move will assist the industry to digitalize its processes, become climate neutral, circular, and also transition to sustainable chemicals by 2050.

PROCESS Worldwide brings to you the ‘Top 10 plant engineering projects of May 2023’ from all over the world. Right from Topsoe developing the world’s first industrial scale SOEC electrolyzer facility to Mc Dermott securing a PMC contract for India's first mega-scale MAH plant, find out all the projects making headlines here.

Under a shareholders’ agreement signed between Ta’ziz and Proman, both the parties aim to establish UAE’s first world-scale methanol production facility at the Ta’ziz Industrial Chemicals Zone in Al Ruways Industrial City, Abu Dhabi. The project is expected to have an annual production capacity of up to 1.8 million tons.

Exxonmobil has recently made the announcement regarding the hefty investment for expanding its Baytown chemical plant in Texas, USA. The project is expected to maximize the value of increased Permian Basin production.

Metso has plans to launch an advanced sustainable battery black mass recycling process to support the circular economy as well as to reduce the carbon footprint of the battery supply chain.

The joint project ‘Pülpegas’ will be developing an innovative industrial biogas plant with a capacity of up to 60GWh/year at the Zeitz Chemical and Industrial Park in Germany. Funded by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, the project will demonstrate wheat pulp mono-fermentation on an industrial scale.

Oil/gas production, refinery and chemical engineers will find the ST100A Series Thermal Flow Meters from Fluid Components International (FCI) can virtually pay for themselves in CO2 capture, storage, and utilization applications that now qualify for carbon tax credits while at the same time reducing their owners corporate greenhouse gas footprint.

PROCESS Worldwide brings to you the ‘Top 10 plant engineering projects of February 2023’ from all over the world. Right from Europe’s most sustainable cracker securing a funding of 3.5 billion euros to Exxonmobil investing 2-billion-dollars for expanding its Baytown chemical plant in the US, find out all the projects making headlines here.

Maire Tecnimont’s subsidiary Nextchem has entered into an agreement with Biorenova to acquire, scale up and industrialize the proprietary Catc technology which is a continuous chemical recycling process to recover ultra-high purity monomers from sorted plastic waste especially polymethylmethacrylate.