With an aim to accelerate its electrolysis business, Haldor Topsoe has established a new organization which will focus exclusively on green hydrogen. Chokri Mousaoui has been appointed as Executive Vice President and head of the organization.

Eastman has plans to increase its capacity by 30 % by 2021 and 50 % plus by 2022 in order to produce Naia cellulosic yarn at its Barcelona site in Spain. The move has been undertaken due to the increasing demand for sustainable fibers.

PROCESS Worldwide brings to you the top 5 plant engineering projects of last week from all over the world. Right from constructing one of the largest electrolyzer plants in the world to building a world-scale blue ammonia facility, find out all the projects making headlines here.

Envirogear has announced that its G Series Internal Gear Pumps are now available with jacketing. Specifically designed to enhance the G Series Pump’s temperature control and stability, these new jacketed pumps are perfectly suited to handle a variety of challenging applications such as carbolic acid, liquid sulfur, roofing manufacturing, general chemicals, bitumen, paint, chocolate, molasses, waxes and heavy fuel oil.

The Maire Tecnimont Group and Leonardo have signed an agreement to develop next-generation greenfield and brownfield plants in Italy as well as around the world. The alliance will focus on three key areas – cyber security, digitalization, and decarbonization.

Eastman introduces Fluid Genius, a revolutionary new patent-pending product that equips engineers and operations managers with predictive insights to optimize heat transfer fluid performance.

Chevron Phillips Chemical announced plans to expand its alpha olefins business with a second world-scale unit to produce on-purpose 1-hexene. Expected capacity for the new unit is 266 KTA with targeted startup in 2023 and its location will be Old Ocean, Texas, near the company’s Sweeny facility. At its peak, the project anticipates supporting more than 600 construction jobs and 50-plus full-time positions.

Shell has plans to sell its interest in Deer Park Refining Ltd Partnership, a 50:50 joint venture firm between Shell and Pemex, to Pemex for 596 million dollars. Once the deal is finalized, Pemex will solely own the company.

Under an agreement signed between Origin Materials and Mitsubishi Gas Chemical, Origin Materials will sell Mitsubishi Gas Chemical’s carbon-negative materials. Together both the companies will also aim to develop and industrialize new as well as advanced carbon-negative chemicals based on Origin Materials’ technology platform.

The Velovac-FIBC vacuum system, which can cleanly and safely bag the finest powders into big bags (FIBCs), is the first of its kind worldwide. Equally innovative is the development process that gave rise to this new product. An interdisciplinary team from Greif-Velox optimized the design of the classic Velovac system – from operation to digital system integration to transport, everything is ideally designed for the use of big bags.