Lanxess’ Lewatit MDS TP 208 monodisperse ion exchanger is currently being used for efficient brine treatment at Coogee Chemicals’ chloralkali facility in Australia. The ion exchanger helps to remove impurities, cut down on wastewater, chemicals and also reduces costs due to its longer service life.

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.

Asahi Kasei announces that on October 21, 2021, Tongsuh Petrochemical, a wholly owned subsidiary in South Korea, acquired the widely recognized international certification ISCC Plus for its acrylonitrile (AN) as a sustainable product, and production of AN using biomass propylene is scheduled to begin in February 2022.

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.

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.

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 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.

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 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.