Kraton has successfully upgraded its crude tall oil biorefinery towers in its Panama City, Florida manufacturing facility. The company has invested 35-million-dollars for the project and with this upgradation will continue to deliver sustainable bio-based products and solutions to its customers.

Air Liquide has plans to modernize its existing assets—two Air Separation Units as well as one Partial Oxidation plant in Stade, Germany—with an aim to increase the site’s operational efficiency and reduce CO2 emissions.

Expensive, unsuitable and not marketable: Hydrogen is scrutinized. The promised miracle substance of defossilization is said to be a waste of energy and not half as environmentally friendly as hoped. What's the truth about hydrogen myths? Time to take a closer look.

In a significant step towards achieving Carbon Neutrality by 2050, PTT Global Chemical Public and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Asia Pacific have entered into a four-year Memorandum of Understanding to explore cutting-edge technologies for a large-scale petrochemical complex in Thailand.

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and Worley have secured a Feed contract for a CO2 capture plant in the UK. The parties will use the proprietary CO2 capture technology ‘Advanced KM CDR Process’ developed jointly with The Kansai Electric Power Co. for the project.

Speciality chemicals company Clariant is going to shut its Sunliquid bioethanol production plant in Podari, Romania. This decision comes after strategic evaluations revealed that the plant, which started producing bioethanol in 2022, did not meet operational targets and continued to incur losses.

Eastman Chemical Company has sold its Texas City Operations to Ineos Acetyls for 490 million dollars but will retain ownership of its plasticizer business at the site. Eastman will also continue to manufacture acetyls at its Tennessee Operations in Kingsport.

Green hydrogen has been intensively talked about since the past few years but now concrete actions are being taken to accelerate the growth of this key decarbonization solution. Industries which are hard-to-abate are especially keeping a close watch on the development of this clean and green solution.

As the year 2023 is now passé and the New Year has begun with great vigor, we have listed below the ‘Top 10 Articles’ of PROCESS Worldwide in 2023. These write-ups have attracted the most views by our readers, we hope you enjoy reading all of them.

Kemira has plans to expand the capacity of its ferric sulfate water treatment chemicals production line in Goole, UK. The mega investment is expected to meet the growing demand for coagulants.