Stamicarbon has won licensing and equipment supply contracts from Jiangsu Huachang Chemical Company for a urea melt plant in China. The unit is expected to have a capacity of 1860 MTPD and will make use of Stamicarbon’s ultra-low energy design with a highly efficient pool reactor concept.

Clariant has recently launched Clarity Prime, an advanced digital service for AI-powered optimization of catalyst operation. Indorama has become the firm’s first customer to implement the new Clarity Prime service at its world-scale ammonia plant in Port Harcourt, Nigeria.

MOL Group has updated its long-term strategy and now aims to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050 via a smart transition. The updated strategy focuses on renewable fuels, green hydrogen, biomethane and geothermal energy and the firm will spend more than 4 billion dollars on green investments.

Eastman has plans to develop its second molecular recycling project in the U.S.A. The Longview site in Texas has been selected by the company for developing the project.

Shell has decided to repurpose its Wesseling site at the Energy and Chemicals Park Rheinland in Germany by converting the site’s hydrocracker into a production unit for Group III base oils. These base oils are used for producing high-quality lubricants such as engine and transmission oils.

Under the terms of the contract, Vattenfall has begun supplying Borealis’ operations in Stenungsund with a total of 175 GWh of renewable energy per year from its hydropower plants in Sweden.

Under a partnership frame agreement signed between both the parties, Metso has been selected as EV Metals’ Technical Partner for developing a Lithium Chemicals Plant in the Yanbu Industrial City, Saudi Arabia.

PROCESS Worldwide brings to you the ‘Top 10 plant engineering projects of February 2024’ from all over the world. Right from Chevron Lummus Global commissioning the world’s largest all-hydroprocessing white oil unit to Lanzajet inaugurating the world’s first ethanol to SAF production facility, find out all the projects making headlines here.

Newcleo has collaborated with Maire’s subsidiaries Nextchem Tech and Tecnimont to study the application of Gen-IV nuclear technologies for the production of hydrogen and sustainable chemicals production.

With an annual production capacity of 5,000 tons, Arlanxeo has plans to develop a new hydrogenated nitrile butadiene rubber plant in Changzhou, China. The unit is expected to begin operations in the third quarter of 2025.