Yara has signed a contract with Linde Engineering for the construction and delivery of a green hydrogen demonstration plant at Yara’s ammonia production facility at Herøya Industripark in Porsgrunn, Norway.

Mitsui Chemicals and Microwave Chemical have launched a new initiative which focuses on commercializing a chemical recycling technique that uses the PlaWave microwave-based plastic degradation technology to directly break down hard to recycle plastics into raw monomers, thus, eliminating an intermediate step.

A global survey conducted by Yokogawa has unveiled that industrial autonomy will have a significant impact on environmental sustainability in the background of the increasing number of industrial autonomy projects across the globe.

The American Chemistry Council (ACC) has recently stated that the U.S. chemical production expanded this year due to the post-lockdown spending surge which significantly increased the demand for chemicals. In this background, the U.S. chemical industry has a positive outlook going into 2022.

Carbon-based organic micropollutants in water can be removed by treatment with high-intensity pulses of light in a procedure developed and demonstrated by researchers at Kaust University.

South Korean engineering and construction company DL E&C has secured a contract for designing the plants of the mega-scale Russian Baltic Complex Project and will also procure equipment for the same. The plants which are a part of the complex will be capable of producing 3 million tons of polyethylene, 120,000 tons of butane, and 50,000 tons of hexane every year.

The German chemical industry association 'Verband der Chemischen Industrie e.V.' (VCI) has reported that production in the German chemical pharmaceutical industry rose by 4.5 % compared to the previous year, and turnover increased by 15.5 % to approximately 247 billion dollars (220 billion euros) due to the significant increase in producer prices (+ 8.5 %). The VCI also predicts that production is expected to increase by 2 % and the turnover by 5 % to 260 billion dollars (231 billion euros) in 2022.

Ineos Olefins Belgium’s Project One aims to construct Europe’s most sustainable ethane cracker project in Antwerp, Belgium. The project is expected to have the lowest carbon footprint in the region and will comply with some of the strictest environmental regulations in the world.

The chemical recycling demo plant will be based on OMV’s proprietary ReOil technology and will be built at the Schwechat refinery in Austria. The demo plant with a design capacity of 16,000 t/year will help to scale up the ReOil technology which helps to convert plastics into synthetic feedstock for the petrochemical industry.

The Amur Gas Chemical Complex has recently secured the funding for its project completion. Now, the worldscale project will be completed on schedule and will provide the additional supply of polyethylene and polypropylene to markets around the world.