DSM has introduced Bovaer, a feed additive for cows which reduces enteric methane emission by approximately 30 % for ruminants. With the potential to become a gamechanger for the world’s net zero ambitions, the company has plans to develop a new facility at its existing site in Dalry, Scotland to scale up its Bovaer production in the coming years.

With an aim to meet the growing demand of performance chemical products in China, Exxon Mobil has decided to go ahead and build a multi-billion-dollar chemical complex in the Dayawan Petrochemical Industrial Park in Huizhou, Guangdong Province in China. The complex which is expected to produce performance polymers includes a flexible feed steam cracker, three performance polyethylene lines, and two differentiated performance polypropylene lines.

Linde has started up its new hydrogen facility in Texas, USA to meet the growing demand of hydrogen in the region. The company has also entered into a long-term agreement with Phillips 66 to supply the hydrogen produced at the new plant to Phillips 66’s Sweeny Refinery in Old Ocean, Texas.

Under a strategic partnership signed between Adnoc and Borealis, both the companies have entered into a 6.2-billion-dollar investment agreement to expand its existing Borouge facility by building a fourth Borouge facility (Borouge 4) at the polyolefin manufacturing complex in Ruwais, UAE. The new unit is expected to produce 1.4 million tons of polyethylene per annum, thus taking the company’s annual polyolefin production to 6.4 million tons and making Borouge the world’s largest single-site polyolefin facility.

Under an engineering expertise agreement signed with Shandong Yulong Petrochemical Co., the ECI Group will provide the technology, design, training for the dual-stream plant, and also support its commissioning, start-up, and production. Repsol which is ECI Group’s technology partner will provide technical expertise for the plant which is expected to produce 200,000 tons of ethylene vinyl acetate annually.

Air Liquide has acquired 100 % stake in H2V Normandy (now called Normand’Hy) and with this development the company aims to build a 200 MW PEM electrolyzer in Port-Jérôme, France for the production of renewable hydrogen which will be used for industrial and heavy mobility applications. The firm will connect the electrolyzer to its hydrogen pipeline network in Normandy, which will lead to the development of the world’s first low-carbon hydrogen network.

Technip Energies and Siemens Energy announced an exclusive agreement to jointly develop, commercialize, and license the Rotating Olefins Cracker technology to decarbonize olefin production processes. The ROC technology employs a dynamic reactor system that replaces conventional furnaces used for pyrolysis when manufacturing light olefins — the building blocks for chemical products used in everyday materials, from packaging to polymers.

Carbon Recycling International (CRI) has collaborated with Jiangsu Sailboat Petrochemicals to establish the Jiangsu Sailboat green methanol plant in China. Based on CRI’s ETL technology, the new unit is expected to recycle 150,000 metric tons of CO2 and 20,000 metric tons of H2 per year in order to produce 100,000 tons of methanol annually.

Solvay has announced a proof of concept for PVDC packaging circularity while maintaining the quality of the polymer. With this, the company has the potential to transform the future recycling of PVDC food packaging and is therefore, requesting other firms in the plastics industry to collaborate in this initiative.

Marking a significant progress in deep shale gas exploration at depths of more than 4,000 meters, Sinopec’s ultradeep prospecting well has been tested to produce 412,000 cubic meters of high-quality shale gas daily at a depth of 4,300 meters. The move is expected to increase Sinopec's shale gas production capacity in southeast Sichuan by more than 2 trillion cubic meters.