On July 5, a major fire broke at the Ming Dih Chemical factory which produces plastic foam and plastic pellets in Thailand. The fire has been extinguished however; the cause of the fire is still unknown.

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.

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.

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.

BASF and Mitsui Chemicals have launched a collaborative study to promote a circular economy for plastics in Japan. Mitsui Chemicals has plans to become carbon-neutral by 2050 and thus, aims at developing recycling technologies.

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

Electronics manufacturing is in the throes of a quiet transformation built around specialty 3D printers and advanced materials working together to create fully functional electronic parts.

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.

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.