Exxon Mobil has plans to establish the mega facility in Baytown, Texas, USA and will commence operations by 2022. With its proprietary advanced recycling technology, the company plans to scale up operations at the unit in order to supply certified circular polymers by the end of the year.

The capacity of Mitsubishi Chemical's polyester film production in Wiesbaden, Germany, is to be expanded. The company invests approximately 110 million euros in a new production line.

Biofuels producer, Renewable Energy Group, joined Iowa State University (ISU) at the Bio Century Research Farm (BCRF) for a ribbon cutting ceremony to celebrate the start of a new hydrotreater pilot plant. This project is the result of a three-year collaboration between REG and the ISU Bioeconomy Institute.

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China’s Wanhua Chemical Group has selected DWE, a subsidiary of Man Energy Solutions to deliver three salt-operated reactors for its new maleic-anhydride plant which produces PBAT (PolyButylene Adipate Terephthalate), a core material used for the production of biodegradable plastics.

The Ethylene Oxide and Propylene Oxide (EO/PO) pipelines will distribute feedstock to various business tenants in PlasChem Park, an industrial park in Jubail, Saudi Arabia to produce diversified specialty chemical products.

The Arbaflame project, backed by EU funding, aims to produce biomass pellets which can be used as a 100 % sustainable alternative to coal in power plants to produce carbon-neutral power. Sulzer Chemtech’s separation equipment has been selected to carry out the pellet production process.

Johnson Matthey and NextChem’s MyRechemical have plans to commercially develop the ‘waste-to-methanol’ technology across the globe. The methanol derived from the technology can be used for producing low-carbon fuels as well as be used as a raw material in the chemical and plastic industries.

Invista Nylon Chemicals has plans to double its current nylon 6,6 polymer production at the Shanghai Chemical Industry Park in China in order to meet the rising domestic demand. With this move, the plant’s capacity will reach 400,000 tons/year.

BASF has introduced new catalysts for producing isopropyl alcohol efficiently. Apart from this, it has also launched a new catalyst for n-butane based maleic anhydride production which increases the efficiency in the biodegradable PBAT value chain, and lastly sustainable lightweight Selective Hydrogenation Catalysts have been developed for steam crackers and refineries.