The Vogel Biopharmaceutical Technology Forum 2022 (VBTF 2022) was successfully held in Shanghai, China on September 23. Organized by Pharmatec China, Shanghai Medipark and Pharma Champ, the event brought together professionals from the pharmaceutical industry to exchange and share the latest global trends and innovative technologies and solutions in biopharmaceutical R&D, production, engineering, and quality management.

Under a MOU signed between both the parties, Lyondell Basell and Shakti Plastic Industries will develop a fully-automated, mechanical recycling plant in India which is expected to produce 50.000 tonnes of recycled polyethylene and polypropylene annually.

A team of researchers at University of Illinois Chicago has discovered a way to convert 100 % of carbon dioxide captured from industrial exhaust into ethylene, a key building block for plastic products.

The biomass cogeneration facility is claimed to be the first large–scale power generation plant to operate solely with well-pressed or dried fermentation residues. Once operational, the plant will supply at least 70,000 megawatt hours of steam to Sasol annually as well as produce more than 90,000 megawatt hours of sustainable electricity every year.

Successful integration of green hydrogen into production networks – Compact electrolysis plants, powered by green electricity, could help to solve the issue of energy storage, providing power and raw materials available for a wide range of applications. But setting up a container plant is not enough: Sahll the decentralized H2 production become a success, it needs to be suitably integrated and connected. Is the energy transition a matter of plant planning and design?

With an aim to establish a domestic lithium supply chain in North America for the electric vehicle market, Snow Lake Lithium has partnered with LG Energy Solution to build one of Canada’s first lithium hydroxide processing plants in Manitoba.

Electrolysis is said to be particularly good at load control and can therefore respond flexibly to fluctuating energy flows. But it's not quite that simple: a pilot project is being launched in Japan to test flexible hydrogen production.

Lanxess has introduced three new weak acid cation (WAC) resins along with two weak base anion exchange resins in its Lewatit product portfolio. The new WAC resins consist of renewable raw materials.

At this year’s Achema trade show which is claimed to be the world's leading trade show for the process industry, more than 2,200 exhibitors from over 50 countries along with 70,000 plus participants from 127 nations were present at the event which was held from August 22 – 26, 2022 in Frankfurt, Germany.

On its path to becoming a climate-neutral company, OQ Chemicals is switching to electricity from renewable sources at its sites worldwide as part of its ‘reduce’ program.