Uniper has collaborated with the Port of Rotterdam Authority to develop green hydrogen production at Maasvlakte in the Netherlands. The move has been carried out based on the findings of a recent feasibility study and the growing demand for sustainable hydrogen from the Rotterdam petrochemical industry.

Elkem has plans to expand capacity at its Roussillon silicone upstream plant in France thus bringing the unit’s total capacity to 100,000 metric tons annually. The company will upgrade and debottleneck its plant to achieve this objective. The expansion is being carried out due to the growing demand for specialty silicones in EMEA and the Americas.

Mexico Pacific Ltd (MPL) has plans to use ConocoPhillips’ greenhouse gas emission reduction technologies to reduce emissions at its MPL LNG Project in Mexico. ConocoPhillips will be designing LNG trains for the project based on the OCP Pro technology and will also provide carbon-advantaged gas feedstock to help MPL develop a strategy for supplying carbon neutral LNG in the future.

Siemens Energy and Toray will jointly promote the development of the largest multi megawatt class PEM electrolysis in Japan under the Green Innovation Funding Program arranged by the Japanese Government. Toray’s new membrane technology will be used in the process. The companies aim to advance the technologies used in the production of green hydrogen by making use of renewable energy sources.

The University of Bayreuth under its H₂ Giga project focuses on the research, development, and industrial production of high-performance, low-cost electrolyzers to meet Germany's demand for green hydrogen. One of the seven H₂ Giga projects called ‘HTs: HTEL Stacks – Ready for Gigawatt’ has received funding of more than 11,00,000 dollars. Chair of Ceramic Materials Engineering at the University of Bayreuth is responsible for this collaborative project.

Promisces, an European project aims at preventing the circulation of polluting organic compounds in the environment by developing new technological solutions in order to support Europe’s ‘zero pollution’ and ‘circular economy’ strategy. A 14-million-dollar contract has been signed between the project partners and the European Commission, thus making Promisces an active part of the European Green Deal.

Lonza has acquired Codiak BioSciences’ exosome manufacturing plant in Lexington, Massachusetts, USA and under the terms of the contract, Codiak will receive approximately 65 million dollars of in-kind manufacturing services for its clinical-stage programs and retain its pipeline of therapeutic candidates and exosome engineering and drug-loading technologies. Both the companies will also develop a Center of Excellence which will focus on exosome manufacturing and characterization technologies.

A MOU has been signed by the applied research institutes TNO, Dechema and Vito to set up a public-private platform on industrial carbon-neutrality which will assist the transition to industrial carbon-neutrality in the trilateral region (The Netherlands-Germany-Belgium). The platform aims to develop international collaboration between stakeholders from industry, governments, regulators, infrastructure asset owners and operators to achieve the objective.

With an annual production capacity of 450 thousand tons, the new polypropylene production plant will be built within the Ceyhan Industrial Zone in Ceyhan, Turkey. The 1.7-billion-dollar investment is claimed to be one of the private-sector’s largest industrial investments in the country and expected to triple the nation’s annual polypropylene production capacity.

There’s a new innovative and revolutionary microfluidic system which allows the mixing and extracting operations to be carried out using a mini glass chip which was otherwise conventionally performed with large-scale equipment. This microfluidic process boasts of combining numerous microfluidic chips simultaneously, thus, creating a ‘desktop chemical plant.’ Now, NTHU and Daicel have plans to integrate this microfluidic system into the chemical manufacturing industry.