With a hefty investment of around 201.20 million dollars, Ineos has plans to upgrade its Grangemouth site in Scotland. The firm aims to upgrade key production units, improve energy efficiency, reduce emissions, and enhance the competitiveness of the site.

Carbon Neutral Fuels has chosen Topsoe’s SOEC technology for its e-SAF project – Project Starling in Workington, UK. On completion, the project is expected to produce 25,000 metric tons of e-SAF annually.

Under an agreement signed between Total Energies and Data4, Total Energies will be supplying renewable electricity to Data4’s data centers in Spain for a period of 10 years. The deal will represent a total volume of 610 GWh.

Akzonobel has successfully completed the sale of Akzonobel India to the JSW Group for a whooping amount of 1.4 billion euros. The transaction includes Akzonobel’s liquid paints and coatings business in India while the India Powder Coatings business and the International Research Center remain under full ownership of Akzonobel.

A new study by Renewable Carbon Initiative and the Biobased Industries Consortium has mentioned that biomass can meet 20 % of carbon demand in the chemicals sector by 2050 without compromising food and feed supply.

Beijing Shougang International Engineering Technology pilots BIM workflows to deliver a seawater desalination project for Wanhua Chemical. The engineering company made use of Bentley’s open applications to shorten design by 50 % while supporting intelligent plant operations.

Numerous four-legged robot dogs are inspecting different spaces across the industrial plant; facility personnel are wearing head-mounted displays which helps them to get access to detailed information about an equipment or process in real time and diverse physical assets of a system or production process at the plant can be replicated into a virtual system, get ready for the plant of the future!

Technip Energies has chosen Honeywell for supplying integrated automation and safety technologies for two mega CCS projects in the UK – the Net Zero Teesside Power and Northern Endurance Partnership projects.

The Metsä Group in partnership with Andritz has started up a carbon capture pilot plant at Metsä’s Rauma mill to test the capture of pulp mill flue gases. The company is also exploring the idea of setting up a larger-scale demo plant for carbon capture at the site.

Axens has recently started up a 100 % Sustainable Aviation Fuel facility at its site in Asia. With the capacity to entirely convert renewable feedstock into high value Sustainable Aviation Fuel, the unit is based on Axens’ Vegan technology.