The company’s Convection Reformer technology will be used for producing hydrogen at Novatek’s refinery in Ust-Luga, Russia. The specialised innovation requires a small footprint and can be installed quickly at the site.

More than 51 million tons of pipes by 2021: A new study takes a closer look at the development of the European pipes and pipelines market. Discover, which markets lead the field and which will be falling behind. But also which materials will be used for which perhaps and in which amounts. From steel to plastic, from transcontinental pipelines to small process tubes...

A paradigm change in solids production is underway in the chemical and pharmaceutical industries. The trend to increased specialization and higher-potency active ingredients creates the need for hermetically sealed process flows. To an increasing extent, the production process will have to be designed as a containment system.

ZPC plans to build a new Polycarbonate-line at its petrochemical and refinery site on Dayushan Island, PR China. The company has recently licensed EPC’s Variplant technology for the new 260,000-tons/year-production line.

Perstorp announced the sale of Bio Products, a producer of biodiesel and glycerine in Scandinavia, to a Swedish investor together with a member of the subsidiary’s management team. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

In order to balance out spikes in power grids resulting from non-uniform regenerative energy conversion from wind or sun, surplus power can be used for the decentralized production of chemicals. German research center Fraunhofer IGB has developed an electrolytic cell in which hydrogen peroxide can be produced on site with electric energy from just water and air – along with oxidative wastewater treatment.

Invista Technologies and Ariha Chemicals have agreed upon licensing of Invista’s R²R Technology. “Ariha is excited to be embarking on this new venture that could benefit its environmental and variable cost performance by using the R²R Technology from Invista.”

Air Products plans to build a world-scale liquid hydrogen plant with a capacity of approximately 30 tons per day at its La Porte, Texas industrial gas facility.

The worldwide petrochemical industry will experience significant growths within the next five years, recent figures indicate – Yet, this growth is not equally distributed: While markets in China, the US or Iran are thriving…

Invista plans to add 40,000 tons of nylon 6,6 polymer capacity at its current 150,000-ton polymer plant at the Shanghai Chemical Industry Park (SCIP). Construction is targeted for mid-2019 and production would begin in 2020.