Lummus Technology has collaborated with Dongyang Environment Group with an aim to deploy its advanced plastics recycling technology in South Korea. The technology is capable of converting plastic waste into high-value chemicals and feedstocks.

Covestro has launched its first dedicated mechanical recycling compounding line for polycarbonates at its integrated site in Shanghai, China. The firm has begun operations at the line which is expected to produce over 25,000 tons of premium-quality polycarbonates and blends.

BASF has completed the production scale-up of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) for Svante Technologies, a Canada-based carbon capture and removal solutions provider. The MOFs will be used as solid sorbents for carbon capture projects.

Located in China, Clariant’s new production facility for flame retardants comprises of a first production line for which an amount of 66-million-dollars has been invested. The move is expected to provide local customers with innovative and sustainable Exolit OP flame retardants which will support the growth of engineering plastics applications in E-mobility and electrical & electronic segments.

Plug Power’s electrolyzers are expected to produce 43 tons of green hydrogen daily and will replace gray hydrogen in the oil refining process, thereby eliminating 516 tons per day of CO2.

In the chemical industry, research facilities create the link between laboratory development and industrial-scale production. Flexible plants comprising multiple areas are sites of innovation and testing, acting as stepping stones for subsequent scale-up. When Evonik Industries was looking to modernize such a plant at the Wolfgang Industrial Park in Hanau, Germany, it was the perfect place to use Simatic PCS neo, the completely web-based process control system from Siemens.

Under a MOU signed between LG Chem and GS Caltex, both the firms will work together to accelerate the commercialization of the world's first 3HP eco-friendly bio material.

Takasago Hydrogen Park, the world's first integrated hydrogen validation facility has entered full-scale operation at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries’ Takasago Machinery Works in Japan. The facility has begun producing electrolysis hydrogen at the site.

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BASF has invested a hefty double-digit million-euro amount to develop a new fermentation plant for biological and biotechnology-based crop protection products at its Ludwigshafen site in Germany.