Korea Petrochemical Ind. Co. (KPIC) has plans to use Lummus Technology’s butadiene extraction technology at its Onsan chemical plant in Ulsan, Korea. On completion, the facility will produce 146,000 MTA of butadiene and generate feed for an existing olefins conversion unit.

The unique design of Promix Solutions’ P1 cooling mixer prevents product degradation deriving from long residence times and avoids deposits or temperature peaks in the temperature control process.

The Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (Adnoc) will be building a world-scale ‘blue’ ammonia production facility at the Ta’ziz industrial ecosystem and chemicals hub in Ruwais, Abu Dhabi, UAE. With an expected capacity of 1,000 kilo tons per annum, the plant will enable the company to explore opportunities in hydrogen and hydrogen carrier fuels.

Seven Fraunhofer Institutes are working together for the lighthouse project ‘Waste4Future’ wherein they intend to develop new solutions for plastics recycling. With this project, the institutes want to establish a chemical industry that requires less fossil raw materials and produces less emissions.

The Singapore Economic Development Board (Singapore EDB) has stated in its recent release the country’s business sentiments for April – September 2021. It further mentions that the biomedical manufacturing cluster expects a positive business environment for the above-mentioned period while the chemicals cluster expects output to increase in the next quarter.

Evonik has partnered with Stanford University to develop a mRNA drug transport technology which aims to deliver mRNA to different tissues and organs in the human body.

Orlen Unipetrol has recently commissioned a pyrolytic testing unit for processing waste-plastics at its chemical plant in Litvínov, Czech Republic. With this move, the company intends to expand the conventional fuel and plastic production from fossil fuels with new sources that will lead to the decarbonization of the country.

Ulsan PP has announced the start-up of its polypropylene production facility in Ulsan, South Korea. Claimed to be one of Asia’s largest polypropylene plant, the unit makes use of Lyondell Basell’s Spheripol PP process technology.

Chevron Phillips Chemical’s new world-scale unit has broken ground in Old Ocean, Texas, USA. The 266 KTA plant will make use of the company’s proprietary on-purpose 1-hexene technology to produce exceptional purity comonomer grade 1-hexene from ethylene in order to expand its alpha olefins business.

The Maag Group will be showcasing its solutions at the virtual Achema Pulse event scheduled to be held on June 15 and 16, 2021.