Shinsol Advanced Chemicals, a joint venture between Solvay and Shinkong Synthetic Fibers Corporation, has launched a new electronic grade hydrogen peroxide plant in Taiwan. With this project, the joint venture aims to meet the growing demand for semiconductors in the country.

Vynova Group has plans to develop a new plant complex for the production of sodium and potassium alcoholates at its Lülsdorf site in Germany. For this, the company intends to invest a high double-digit million-euro amount.

Johnson Matthey has demonstrated its new Hyrefine technology for recycling hydrogen fuel cell and electrolyzer materials. The firm claims that this is the first ever demonstration of circularity for the PGMs and valuable ionomer together.

Metso has expanded capabilities for lithium hydroxide and other battery chemicals process testing at its pilot facility in Pori, Finland. The firm has also launched a battery materials precursor pilot plant which is available for customer trials.

Veolia and Posco Holdings have entered into a contract under which Veolia will be contributing its technological and industrial know-how for the production of battery-grade lithium hydroxide. The plant is expected to have a production capacity of 25,000 every year and will supply lithium which will help to produce around 600,000 batteries for electric vehicles.

Exxonmobil’s two new chemical production units at its Baytown, Texas manufacturing facility in the USA are expected to produce 400,000 metric tons per year of polymer modifiers and 350,000 tons per year of linear alpha olefins respectively.

Messer has selected Sulzer’s mass transfer technologies to assist an innovative carbon capture and utilization process at its Landeck plant in Austria. The unit will make use of Sulzer Chemtech’s carbon capture technology to capture more than 50,000 tons of CO2 per year.

Mitsui Chemicals has plans to develop a new elastomers (Tafmer) plant in Singapore in the background of the rising global demand for high-performance elastomers.

BHS-Sonthofen has plans to showcase a new laboratory indexing filter, a compact version of the proven indexing belt filter along with the horizontal dryer of type HTC-T 140, which is used in many different production processes in the chemical industry.

Thermo Fisher Scientific’s new center in Seoul, South Korea will act as a global hub for battery producers through which they can gain access to metrology and quality control technologies.