Worley has been selected by Rock Tech Lithium as its EPCM partner for developing Europe's First Lithium Converter in Guben, Germany. On completion, the project is expected to have a capacity of 24,000 tons of lithium hydroxide per year.

The first Lummus Advanced Waste Plastic Recycling plant will be located at Tiszaújváro, Hungary and is expected to have a processing capacity of 40,000 tons of mixed waste plastics per annum. The unit will also produce circular petrochemical building blocks which will be processed by MOL in their petrochemical facility.

Mitsui Chemicals has plans to increase meta-Xylylene Diisocyanate production capacity at its plant located within Omuta Works in Japan. The move will increase the site’s total production capacity by 20 %.

Shell Singapore has plans to sell its Energy and Chemicals Park in Singapore to CAPGC, a joint venture company between Chandra Asri Capital and Glencore Asian Holdings. The transaction is expected to complete by the end of 2024, subject to regulatory approval.

PROCESS Worldwide brings to you the ‘Top 10 plant engineering projects of June 2024’ from all over the world. Right from Cepsa beginning construction of Spain’s first isopropyl alcohol plant to H2Site developing an ammonia cracker to produce fuel cell-grade hydrogen, find out all the projects making headlines here.

These are the birth pangs of a new economy: the increasing demand for chemical products is bringing growth to the industry, which at the same time has to cope with the necessary transformation towards climate neutrality. For chemical plant construction, both of these factors mean a lot of work in the coming years - in addition to enormous challenges, huge opportunities await.

Christoph Kowitz who currently heads Wacker’s Corporate Research Department has been appointed as the President and CEO of Wacker Chemical Corporation in the USA. He will succeed David Wilhoit who is retiring from the firm.

Air Liquide's innovative CO₂ liquefaction technology called Cryocap LQ has been selected for developing Stockholm Exergi’s Bio-Energy Carbon Capture & Storage project in Stockholm, Sweden. Air Liquide’s Cryocap LQ CO2 liquefaction unit is claimed to be one of the largest in the world with a capacity of 3,500 tonnes per day.

It is a mammoth undertaking: Most nations want to become climate-neutral by 2050 – and with them the companies in the chemical industry. Because on the one hand it produces energy-intensively, and on the other it cannot do without carbon, the chemical industry is having a particularly hard time decarbonizing. But this only spurs the industry's researchers and engineers on even more.

Air Products has plans to develop two new air separation units (ASUs) at its existing Conyers, Georgia and Reidsville, North Carolina locations in the USA. Both the new ASUs will replace older units and provide additional capacity at the above-mentioned locations.