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.

Solvay has plans to separate the existing company into two different companies – Solvay and Syensqo. For this, the company has already announced its future board of directors.

With a rise in demand for sustainable food packaging, Mitsui Chemicals has plans to increase the production capacity for its environmentally safe Takelac polyurethane dispersions. These PUDs are water-based resins that offer superior heat resistance, high-temperature gas barrier performance and fastness to rubbing.

Haldia Petrochemicals has selected numerous Lummus technologies including its olefins conversion technology for developing India’s first on-purpose propylene plant and the country’s largest cumene and phenol plant. The move is expected to boost the country’s petrochemical market.

The feasibility study has been awarded by Man Energy Solutions and the study is expected to investigate the full integration of Aker Carbon Capture’s standardized and modularized Just Catch 100 unit into a full power-to-fuel solution.

Under a commercial agreement signed between the two firms, Yara International will lower its annual CO2-emissions by 800,000 tons from ammonia production at its Sluiskil site in the Netherlands. The CO2 will then be liquefied and shipped by Northern Lights to permanent storage on the Norwegian continental shelf under the seabed.

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.

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.

Toray and Honda Motor have plans to jointly develop a chemical recycling technology for glass-fiber reinforced nylon 6 parts recovered from end-of-life vehicles. The project aims to establish a circular economy and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

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