LG Chem has plans to develop South Korea’s first super critical pyrolysis plant as well as an aerogel plant in Chungnam. With this investment, the firm aims to work towards the concept of building a plastic circular economy and developing future green materials.

Wood has collaborated with SGN to speed up plans regarding key hydrogen transmission infrastructure in Scotland and southern England. The move aims at supporting UK’s goal of achieving net zero emissions by 2050.

Siemens is driving digital transformation: a new business unit pools key software areas contributing to digitalization of the process industry. Bart Moors, Head of the new unit and Head of Portfolio Management Dr. Uschi Mitsching are focusing on comprehensive support for customers and their plants across the entire lifecycle, regardless of where they join the digitalization journey.

Under a joint pre-feasibility study, Greenergy and Hydrogenious LOHC Technologies will work together to develop a green hydrogen supply chain which aims to transport low-cost green hydrogen from Canada to the UK.

İgsaş - İstanbul Gübre Sanayii has selected thyssenkrupp Uhde’s new uhde ammonia converter cartridge and Johnson Matthey’s high-performance catalyst Katalco 74-1 for its existing ammonia plant in Turkey. With this, the company aims to significantly reduce the pressure in the synthesis loop of its ammonia plant while maintaining the nameplate capacity of 1,200 mtpd.

Producers of food and household chemicals have to protect their products on the pallet in a energy and resource efficient way. To achieve this, they must be able to process more films made from recyclates. The new, modularized high-performance packaging system from Beumer proofs, that operators can combine both goals.

PROCESS Worldwide brings to you the ‘Top 10 plant engineering projects of May 2023’ from all over the world. Right from Topsoe developing the world’s first industrial scale SOEC electrolyzer facility to Mc Dermott securing a PMC contract for India's first mega-scale MAH plant, find out all the projects making headlines here.

The European Chemical Industry Council (Cefic) has recently reported that the EU chemical production is expected to decline by about 8 % in 2023 as compared to the previous year.

Fluid Components International’s SIL-2 rated FS10i Flow Switch Series offers precision thermal sensors which proves beneficial for the production of green hydrogen energy. It is also claimed to be the only product in its class to carry a SIL 2 compliance rating with a 90 % Safe Failure Fraction.

Plug Power and Acciona Energía have plans to develop an industrial-scale, green hydrogen plant in Spain. Called ‘Valle H2V Navarra’, the 87-million-euro project will include a 25 MW electrolyzer and is expected to produce 3,880 tons of green hydrogen annually.