The new methyl glycols plant will have an annual capacity of 46,000 metric tons and aims to meet the rapidly growing demand for brake fluids in the region. Operations at the unit are expected to begin by 2025.

PROCESS Worldwide brings to you the ‘Top 10 plant engineering projects of March 2024’ from all over the world. Right from the world’s largest ‘ammonia to hydrogen’ modular cracker demo in operation to Akzonobel investing 30 million plus dollars at its powder coatings sites, find out all the projects making headlines here.

With chemical and chemical processing industries aiming to forge ahead in their automation and digitalization drive to develop their respective ‘Factory of the future’ or ‘Smart factory’, one thing is certain – it can’t be done without the use of robots at least for the time being. The concept of robots is not new but they have been transformed time and again to meet the challenges of today’s industrial plants especially with regard to plant inspection as well as maintenance and it won’t be wrong to term this phase as the ‘return and rise of robots.’

Industrial plants are high risk zones and have to be monitored carefully to avoid any catastrophe. Supervision technologies such as advanced robots and drones play a crucial role here to make the job of monitoring the diverse elements of the facility less stressful, more convenient and less time consuming. Read on to know more about the benefits of these hi-tech technologies in industrial settings.

BASF has plans to divest its shares in the two joint venture companies BASF Markor Chemical Manufacturing (Xinjiang) Co. and Markor Meiou Chemical (Xinjiang) Co. in Korla, China.

Electric vehicles are in great demand across the globe as it does not emit any emissions. The significant growth of this sector has encouraged industry players in the supply chain to develop more advanced, sustainable and high-energy density battery solutions in the form of completely new batteries and innovative battery materials for EVs.

PROCESS Worldwide brings to you the ‘Top 10 plant engineering projects of November 2023’ from all over the world. Right from OMV, Interzero developing Europe’s largest sorting facility for chemical recycling to inaugurating the world’s first pilot plant for green methanol in Germany, find out all the projects making headlines here.

BASF is expected organize and manage the entire recycling process for the lithium-ion batteries used on Iveco Group electric vans, buses and trucks. The move is in line with Iveco Group’s circular economy strategy of increasing the lifetime of its batteries while decreasing its overall environmental impact.

BASF process catalysts has collaborated with Envision Energy to further optimize the process of producing e-methanol from green hydrogen and CO2 via an advanced, dynamic process design. The partners aim to demonstrate the viability of the advanced process design next year.

Under a black mass purchase agreement signed between both the parties, BASF and Stena Recycling will work together to develop improved black mass production processes in order to achieve high recovery rates for metals to support closed loop solutions for the European electric vehicle battery market.