Under a MOU signed between Total Energies and Veolia, both the companies have decided to further their cooperation in energy transition and the circular economy. Veolia is expected to contribute its expertise in water resource management and the resource recovery of new waste streams while Total Energies will offer its expertise in the measurement and reduction of methane emissions and the production and supply of low-carbon energies.

Air Products has recently announced that its new air separation facility in Cleveland, Ohio is onstream and has also started supplying to its customers. The company is also reinvesting at the same location to extend the life of an existing air separation unit and liquefier plant.

OMV has secured a grant from the EU Innovation Fund for the first time for its planned industrial Reoil plant. The facility is expected to process up to 200,000 metric tons of used plastics and will make use of OMV’s proprietary Reoil chemical recycling technology to convert the recycled material into sustainable base chemicals.

Covestro has plans to take over two Vencorex entities with HDI derivates production sites, one in the US and another one in Thailand for expanding its aliphatics production portfolio in the region.

Autonomous robots are the new smart technologies in the market and the who’s who of the industry are already planning to explore these solutions for their industrial facilities. Plant inspections can now be carried out multiple times in a day with high accuracy and precision.

From June 2025, OQ Chemicals has plans to begin heptanoic acid production in Oberhausen, Germany. With this, the company aims to strengthen its carboxylic acid portfolio and enhance supply chain security for its customers.

Highly active ingredients (APIs/HAPIs) characterise modern drug production – and place high demands on containment. This article explains how OEL limits and OEB classes influence and control containment technologies and what technical solutions exist for closed transfer systems. Focus: active-passive valves for vacuum dryers that meet OEB 4/5 standards.

With everything changing around us right from the way we secure our knowledge, to communicating with people to the way the workforce across industries is being made to upgrade their existing skill sets to take on more productive tasks, one thing is certain: Change is constant. Smart technologies like Augmented Reality have not only entered the workforce but are transforming the workforce like never before.

Thyssenkrupp Uhde’s Envinox technology has been delivered to Covestro’s Baytown site in Texas, USA. The technology is expected to play a vital role in Covestro’s Nitric Acid Unit Climate Initiative which will equate to an annual abatement of approximately 154,000 metric tons of CO2e.

Symrise has recently launched a new pentylene glycol production unit at its facility in Granada, Spain. With this project, the company offers European customers with a shorter supply chain for this solution.