Johnson Matthey recently held a groundbreaking ceremony to commence the construction of a plant in Gliwice, Poland which will supply important catalyst products to the automotive industry. The event was attended by numerous dignitaries.

Cummins’ new Hydrogen Fuel Cell Systems Production Center has started operations in Herten, Germany. With this facility, the company aims to speed up the adoption of hydrogen technologies across Europe.

With the commercial licensure approval, Novartis’ new manufacturing facility in North Carolina, USA will be able to develop and test gene therapy products for current as well as future clinical trials, thus expanding its production capabilities for these solutions.

With the new plant, Sumitomo Chemical plans to strengthen its supply of high-quality active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) and intermediates in the background of rising demand for small molecule drugs.

Perstorp has submitted a 107-million-dollar application to the EU Innovation Fund for Project Air which comprises the development of a sustainable methanol production facility in Stenungssund, Sweden. The project has the potential to reduce global CO2 emissions by 400,000 tons.

With an aim to expand the existing production capacity of its synthetic pharmaceutical CDMO business by 30 %, AGC has plans to invest 100 million dollars to develop a new facility in Spain for its subsidiary AGC Pharma Chemicals Europe. The new facility will focus on highly potent active pharmaceutical ingredients due to its high market demand.

The restructuring of Korea Engineering Plastics, a joint venture of Celanese and Mitsubishi Gas Chemical, has successfully been carried out by the owners. Under the new change, the joint venture company will now only focus on manufacturing and supplying high quality polyoxymethylene products to its shareholders who will then market them around the world.

PROCESS Worldwide brings to you the ‘Top 10 plant engineering projects of February 2022’ from all over the world. Right from China’s first megaton CCUS project to developing Europe’s first lithium refinery, find out all the projects making headlines here.

A new study by Fertilizers Europe and Dechema has revealed that CO2 emissions from ammonia production in Europe could be reduced by almost a fifth in 2030. It also highlights that the adoption of blue hydrogen in the production of ammonia could lead to a reduction of 3,000 kt of CO2 emissions annually from 2030 onwards.

Mitsubishi Power Americas has ordered 40 electrolyzers from HydrogenPro to produce green hydrogen which will be used for power generation, transportation and industrial applications. With this move, the companies aim to deploy utility-scale green hydrogen in the U.S. in order to support the country to achieve its global decarbonization targets.