At the opening ceremony of Achema, German Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, Dr. Robert Habeck, along with other leaders from the financial sector, the chemical industry and suppliers offered insights about how the process industry is positioning itself within new global framework conditions and wrapped up the session by suggesting that international cooperation is the need of the hour in order to overcome the many challenges faced by the process industry.

Chevron has relocated its headquarters from San Ramon, California, to Houston, Texas in the USA. The firm has also announced changes in its senior leadership.

Covestro will supply methylene diphenyl diisocyanate that is based on ISCC Plus certified mass balanced bio-circular raw materials and features up to a 99 % lower product carbon footprint than fossil-based MDI to Carlisle.

Clariant’s deoxygenation catalyst from the Envicat Green series will be used to remove trace oxygen from green hydrogen produced at the facility, before conversion into green ammonia.

BASF has switched its production to bio-based Ethyl Acrylate starting Q4 2024. Bio-based EA has a certified 14C-traceable content of 40 % and offers a product carbon footprint reduction of 30 % compared to fossil-based EA.

The planning of process plants for the production of chemical and petrochemi-cal products is often complex. Precise and comprehensive scheduling is the only way to ensure that the plants are completed on time and within budget.

Clariant and OMV have entered into a letter of intent to accelerate the transition towards renewable carbon in the European ethylene supply chain. With this move, Clariant aims to expand its bio-based ethylene oxide derivatives portfolio with renewable low-carbon footprint ethylene from OMV.

Researchers from BASF, the Austrian Research Centre of Industrial Biotechnology and the University of Graz in Austria have jointly developed a fundamentally new computer-assisted model which can improve enzyme performance as well as enable new biocatalytic production processes to be scaled up quickly.

E3 Lithium has plans to develop a fully integrated Lithium Brine Demonstration Facility in Canada. The project will aim to produce battery grade lithium carbonate from brines located within the Leduc reservoir in Alberta.

Merck has recently closed the transaction to acquire Mirus Bio for approximately 600 million dollars. With this deal, Merck intends to boost its viral vector bioprocessing offering.