Evonik has expanded the manufacturing capacity of Tegosoft MM MB in China. The company’s Care Solutions organics plant, as a second site, will now be producing this product which will assist the firm to cater to the strong Asia Pacific market with ease.

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.

BASF has plans to sell its flocculants business for mining applications to Solenis. With this divestment, BASF aims to focus on core strategic areas.

Nextchem will make use of its Conser Man proprietary technology with an aim to boost efficiency of maleic anhydride production at the existing plant in North America.

ABB’s FSS400 Swirl and FSV400 Vortex flowmeters have become the first flowmeters in the market to obtain a Fieldcomm Group Ethernet-APL physical-layer certification. The certification assures product quality for process instrumentation and reliable interoperability throughout industrial communication networks.

Trillium Renewable Chemicals has chosen Ineos Nitriles’ Green Lake facility in Port Lavaca, Texas to develop the world’s first demonstration plant for converting plant-based glycerol into acrylonitrile. Named ‘Project Falcon’, the project is expected to commence operations in early 2025.

PROCESS Worldwide brings to you the ‘Top 10 plant engineering projects of May 2022’ from all over the world. Right from developing a world scale ethylene plant in Europe to building one of the world’s largest PDH units in China, find out all the projects making headlines here.

Cemvita has surpassed its 2029 goal of producing up to 500 barrels per day of sustainable oil from its first commercial plant by quadrupling its planned output. The firm has unlocked new efficient technologies that make this possible.

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.

Under an alliance agreement signed between KBR and Sumitomo Chemical, KBR has been selected as the exclusive licensing partner for Sumitomo Chemical's propylene oxide by cumene technology.