OQ Chemicals has reached a key milestone in its ‘Propel’ project with the mechanical completion of its infrastructure. The project will support the operation of Röhm’s new world-scale Methyl Methacrylate plant in Bay City site, USA.

Under an agreement signed with Heidelberg Materials, Linde will be responsible for developing and operating a large-scale carbon capture and liquefaction facility in Germany. With this project, both the parties aim to reduce carbon emissions at Heidelberg’s Lengfurt plant.

Under an agreement signed between Cyclic Materials and Solvay, Cyclic Materials will supply recycled mixed rare earth oxide from its new Hub100 facility in Ontario, Canada to Solvay’s plant in La Rochelle, France for further separation and purification.

Eaton is presenting diverse new filtration solutions for the industrial processing, life sciences, and hydraulic filtration segments at the leading international trade show Achema which is currently being held in Frankfurt, Germany.

Lanzatech and Lanzajet have launched Circulair, a revolutionary solution to convert waste, carbon, and renewable power into sustainable aviation fuel. With this solution, the partners aim to accelerate the decarbonization of the aviation industry globally.

As we move towards a climate-neutral future, great hopes are being pinned on hydrogen as a key element of the energy transition. The energy-rich molecule can be used for storage and can act as an ideal versatile chemical energy carrier. But how might the hydrogen economy of the future look like? What volumes are required and what infrastructure is suitable? This trend report provides answers to these questions.

Transform Materials has partnered with Johnson Matthey to develop a solution that emits fewer carbon emissions when compared to traditional coal-based processes to produce vinyl chloride monomer for PVC production.

Cepsa has plans to invest 75-million-euros to develop Spain’s first isopropyl alcohol plant which will be used to produce hydroalcoholic gels. The plant will make use of green hydrogen and will replace fossil-based raw materials in the production of isopropyl alcohol with sustainable alternatives.

What do the trend topics of circular economy, battery production and plant proteins have in common? They challenge the creativity of process engineers, and they follow the global megatrends of resource scarcity, mobility, nutrition and climate protection. Where the focus in the past decade was on new chemical processes and digital technologies, now it is the turn of mechanical process engineering.

India’s largest Chlor-Alkali project is commissioned by Mundra Petrochemical, a subsidiary of Adani Enterprises. With a capacity of 2200 TPD and utilizing a 100 % NaOH process, the project is expected to play a vital role in the production of feedstocks for Mundra Petrochemical’s refineries and chemical plants.