The companies Evonik, Adare, Solvay, PPG, Icheme, Syngenta and Romaco have made new appointments to senior positions. PROCESS summarizes the latest management decisions for you.

The year 2020 has confronted Feige Filling, one of the market leaders for filling equipment, with very special challenges: Within a very tight time frame and under pandemic conditions, seven fully- automatic fillers had to be planned and manufactured for a Chinese customer.

With the help of special bacteria and an innovative process concept, BASF and Lanzatech have been able to produce n-octanol at laboratory scale from carbon monoxide and hydrogen. The combination of Lanzatech’s gas fermentation technology into BASF’s Verbund will help the firms to move into the direction of a carbon-neutral circular economy.

According to a recent American Chemistry Council (ACC) report U.S. chemical industry investment linked to shale gas has reached $164 billion.

A study by Cowi and the nova-Institute has been completed for the European Commission. Supported by the University of Utrecht, the study aims at exploring the role and potential of renewable carbon in the economy towards mitigating climate change.

Neste has awarded Technip Energies with two contracts which revolve around the development of its renewables production platform in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. The first contract includes EPCM for the modification of Neste's existing renewables production refinery in order to produce SAF while the second one includes FEED for Neste's potential renewable products refinery.

PROCESS Worldwide brings to you the top 5 plant engineering projects of last week from all over the world. Right from the construction of world scale plants to facility expansion projects, find out all the projects making headlines here.

Metering and process diaphragm pumps manufacturer Lewa has signed a purchase contract with Seko Middle East FZE, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Seko S.p.A., to take effect on December 1, 2016. The object of the agreement was the takeover of the entire plant, including all assets and the chemical injection package (CIP) business for the oil and gas sector, the (petro-)chemical industry and the power plant sector. The acquisition is part of the Lewa Group’s strategy of specializing in pumps and integrated systems solutions.

Metso Outotec is introducing its wide range of reliable and efficient filtration solutions for the industrial segment, covering, for example, chemical processing, industrial minerals, rubber and plastic, food and pharmaceutical, as well as different types of bioprocess industries.

Repsol has partnered with Enerkem and Agbar under the Ecoplanta project to establish a waste to chemicals plant capable of processing around 400,000 tons of non-recyclable municipal solid waste from its surrounding regions and producing 220,000 tons of methanol.