Arxada has plans to make the hefty investment in its Kouřim-based industrial biotechnological plant in Czech Republic. With this move, the company will be able to provide important infrastructure debottlenecking in line with expanded technological options as well as be able to increase its formulation capacity in order to cater to its growing customer base.

Under a MOU signed between Shell and RWE Generation, both the companies will work together to advance projects that focus on production, use and distribution of green hydrogen. Apart from this, they will also look at other sustainable options such as CCS and blue hydrogen to decarbonise RWE’s gas and biomass-fired power plants in northwest Europe.

The CABB Group has established a unified organization ‘One CABB’ to accelerate growth as well as to serve its customers better. The company is also looking at a potential Initial public offering (IPO) to achieve its goal of strengthening its position as one of the premier contract development and manufacturing companies for crop science and life sciences. With the change in corporate structure, the Group’s business units Custom Manufacturing and Acetyls will be combined into one company structure.

After more than eleven years as CEO of Borealis, Mark Garrett has decided to leave the company to pursue a new career path. Executive Vice President Alfred Stern, currently responsible for the Polyolefin Business and Innovation, has been appointed as CEO effective July 2, 2018.

Albemarle has signed two investment agreements with the Yangtze River International Chemical Industrial Park in the Jiangsu province and the Pengshan Economic Development Park in the Sichuan province respectively in China. In the background of these contracts, the company aims to establish a lithium conversion plant at each of these sites which are expected to produce 50,000 metric tons lithium hydroxide per annum initially.

Global chemical companies including Clariant have collaborated with the World Economic Forum to develop a pre-competitive platform which intends to support low-carbon joint projects and accelerate the use of net-zero technologies. The unique collaboration is expected to assist the Low Carbon Emitting Technologies initiative (LCET) to jointly address mission-critical technology challenges.

Under a strategic partnership signed between Adnoc and Borealis, both the companies have entered into a 6.2-billion-dollar investment agreement to expand its existing Borouge facility by building a fourth Borouge facility (Borouge 4) at the polyolefin manufacturing complex in Ruwais, UAE. The new unit is expected to produce 1.4 million tons of polyethylene per annum, thus taking the company’s annual polyolefin production to 6.4 million tons and making Borouge the world’s largest single-site polyolefin facility.

In line with the global trend of water-based and environmentally friendly products, Lanxess has launched its new production line for water-based compounds in Nantong, China. With this, the company will be able to supply modern and green compounds under the brand name ‘Pellart’ to its customers in Asia.

Saudi Arabia has announced that it intends to become carbon neutral by 2060 and in this background Sabic, the country’s major petrochemicals company has developed a carbon neutrality strategy under which it plans to support its global projects by supplying innovative technologies to achieve this goal.

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