How can gas mixtures from industrial production be put to good use to produce valuable materials and save crude oil at the same time? The research consortium of the project Carbon4pur has found answers to this question and has presented the final results after three and a half years of research work.

Johnson Matthey (JM) has been selected to provide its methanol technology to the Haru Oni project, the world’s maiden methanol unit in Patagonia, Chile. The pilot phase of the project is expected to produce around 900,000 liters per year of e-methanol as early as 2022.

BASF and OMV have worked together on an innovative and sustainable technology for producing high-purity isobutene. The novel technology has now been installed at OMV´s new ISO C4 plant in Burghausen, Germany.

Vinnolit has plans to introduce a base chemical with reduced CO2 footprint in 2021. The green caustic soda will assist industry players to reduce their own carbon footprint and develop more climate-friendly products.

European Chemical Industry Council’s (Cefic) latest data has revealed that the industry will recover in 2021 and 2022 however, long-term economic outlook still remains uncertain due to the global pandemic of Covid-19.

Rotork has announced that almost 150 intelligent electric actuators on Rotork’s Pakscan control network have been ordered for the Quimica Puente Mayorga chemical processing plant in Cádiz, Spain.

The Chinese company Guangzhou Tinci Materials Technology (Tinci) has selected Lanxess to produce electrolyte formulations for its lithium-ion batteries. Production will be carried out at Lanxess’ high-tech plant in Leverkusen, Germany.

Sumitomo Chemical has signed a contract with Kazan Organichesky Sintez (KOS) to license its high-pressure production process for low-density polyethylene and ethylene-vinyl acetate to KOS’ new plant in Kazan, Tartarstan.

The 35th International Trade Fair for Fine and Specialty Chemicals, Chemspec, is to be held live and digitally as a hybrid event from September 29 to 30, 2021.

The board members of the ‘9th Conference on CO2-based Fuels and Chemicals’ have shortlisted six technologies for the show’s innovation award ‘Best CO2 Utilisation 2021’. Three winners will be announced at the virtual conference which will be held from March 23-24, 2021.