The large-scale manufacturing facility is expected to have an electrolyzer production capacity of 500 MW per year which can be expandable to 5 GW. Work on the unit will begin in 2022 and will be operational by 2023.

Nova has completely revised and introduced an extended third version of its nova’s technology and trend report ‘Carbon Dioxide (CO2) as Chemical Feedstock for Polymers – Technologies, Polymers, Developers and Producers’. The report states that CO2 is used as chemical feedstock for polymers and nearly 1 million tons production capacity has already been installed.

OMV intends to develop a ‘Glycerin2Propanol’ pilot plant at its Schwechat Refinery in Austria which will produce second-generation biofuels. The company will use a patented process for the production phase and the unit is expected to be operational in 2023.

Speciality chemical company Clariant has signed a license agreement with Harbin Hulan Sino-Dan Jianye Bio-Energy, a Chinese green energy company for its sunliquid cellulosic ethanol technology.

Fact.MR, a market research and consulting firm has predicted that the demand for synthetic industrial rubber will outweigh the natural type by 2:1. The firm has also revealed in its report that the industrial rubber market is expected to reach a valuation of nearly 110 billion dollars in 2030.

Located in Anyang, China, the new CO2-to-methanol plant will recycle 160,000 tons of CO2 per year. Foundation work for the project is currently ongoing and methanol production will commence this year.

The new Regenerative Thermal Oxidizer (RTO) will be installed at Borealis’ polyolefins plant in Porvoo, Finland by 2023. With this move, the company aims to lower CO2 emissions, energy consumption, and flaring at its facilities.

Although the Corona crisis is making itself felt in the order books of many EPC companies, confidence is now called for. This is the attitude of Jörg Engelmann, Managing Director of Chemnitz Chemical Plant Construction (CAC), based in Germany. In an interview with the German-language PROCESS, the plant manufacturer sees the company well equipped for the future despite the challenging situation thanks to sustainable technologies, lean processes and good ideas. With their power-to-X processes, resident companies certainly have an ace up their sleeve.

Ajax Equipment has supplied two large stainless steel vertical screw blenders to a major chemical producer in South Korea for producing polymer powder. Each blender is capable of handling batches of up to 8T of polymer powder and additives.

Titan Enterprises reports that its High Pressure Oval Gear (OG4) flowmeters provide an ideal solution for applications, within the oil and gas industry, that require a highly accurate and chemically resistant flow measurement device, such as metering high pressure additive injection.