Chevron Phillips Chemical (CP Chem) has become the first company in the US to produce circular polyethylene from recycled mixed-waste plastics on a commercial scale. Utilising advanced recycling technology, the firm has plans to develop its new circular polyethylene range and market it upon certification.

Under the terms of the contract, Lummus Technology will be responsible for designing as well as supplying four proprietary Short Residence Time VI and VII type cracking furnaces to the gas chemical complex in Uzbekistan.

Under a Letter of Intent recently signed between BP and Ørsted, both the companies will work together for the ‘Lingen Green Hydrogen’ project in which they will jointly develop a 50 MW electrolyser. The mega electrolyser project is expected to produce one tonne an hour of green ‎hydrogen.

Faster, more flexible and customer oriented – this is how the Japanese process automation company Yokogawa wants to position itself in the market in the future. The new business slogan ‘Co-innovating tomorrow’ describes the change – it is supposed to show new products and services.

The German Chemical Industry Association (VCI) has compared the ambitious project to a 'moon landing mission' in which the Apollo programme is completely missing. Thus, indicating that the European Parliament, Commission and Council must set the targets based on ground realities.

Already in the middle of this year, BASF in Shanghai more than doubled its compounding capacities for polyamide and polybutylene terephthalate (PBT) and started operations in Korea a plant for compounding the two materials in October. Now BASF will expand its compounding capacities for engineering plastics in Schwarzheide/Germany.

With the acquisition of Bunge Loders Croklaan's Rotterdam plant, Neste has plans to increase its raw material pre-treatment capacity for the production of renewable products. The move is in line with the company’s global growth strategy for renewables.

Blackmer has announced the availability of its new Magnes Series Sliding Vane Magnetic Drive Pumps. The Series pumps are positive displacement rotary vane pumps that use a magnetic drive without dynamic seals, providing a leak-free pumping solution for difficult-to-seal, expensive, valuable, dangerous and hazardous liquids.

OQ Chemicals has completed the expansion project at its Oberhausen site in Germany which has led to the significant increase in isononanoic acid. The move is in line with the firm’s long-term capacity strategy for carboxylic acids.

Lux Research’s new report titled ‘The Chemicals and Materials Company of 2040’ states that over the next 20 years, the chemicals and materials industries will change drastically due to climate change and the digital transformation. The sectors will also be forced to adopt new skills and develop new goals to stay competitive in the market.