Located at Shell’s Energy and Chemicals Park Rheinland, near Cologne in Germany, the mega project is part of the Refhyne European consortium which will utilize the PEM technology to produce green hydrogen.

With an aim to meet the growing demand of water treatment solutions in China and the Asia-Pacific region, Kemira has decided to expand its production capacity of water treatment chemicals in Yanzhou, China.

The ‘Best Plant Engineering’ projects from all around the globe have been showcased here. Right from developing the first full-scale zero carbon-emissions steel plant in the world to building the world’s largest polyethylene integration project, find out all the projects making headlines here.

Wacker has awarded the company’s ‘Alexander Wacker Innovation Award 2021’ to its in-house German-Chinese team for developing a novel process for producing vinyl acetate-ethylene (VAE) polymer dispersions. The winners were rewarded with almost 12,000 dollars.

Industrial Company Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction announced that it had succeeded in developing the technology for recovering lithium carbonate by recycling waste batteries.

The American Chemistry Council (ACC) in its Mid-Year 2021 Chemical Industry Situation and Outlook has stated that vital U.S. chemical industry metrics will be higher this year due to the recovery of key end-use markets and export customers from Covid-19.

New executives take the helm at Exxon Mobil, Eastman, Huntsman, Nova Chemicals, and other major players in the process industry. PROCESS worldwide summarizes the latest management news for you.

VortextRepsol has awarded Tecnimont with an EPC lump sum turn-key contract for the development of two advanced polymer units at the Sines Industrial Complex in Portugal. The new units are expected to have a capacity of 300,000 tons per year each and will be completed by 2025.

S&B Engineers and Constructors (S&B) has secured an engineering and construction contract from Chevron Phillips Chemical for its world-scale 1-hexene unit in Texas, USA. The new unit is expected to produce up to 266,000 metric tons per year of 1-hexene.

Under a long-term agreement signed between Braven and Chevron Phillips Chemical (CPChem), Braven will supply its pyrolysis-derived feedstock Braven Pychem to the chemical major. The move will establish a circular economy for the manufacturing of new plastics.