With an aim to strengthen the supply infrastructure for industrial, food-grade, and medical gases for the aquaculture sector and other industries in southwestern Norway, Nippon Gases Norway has plans to build a new air separation plant at the Viganeset industrial area in the Hjelmeland municipality.

The partnership between Arkema and Catalyxx aims to accelerate the production of low-carbon, bio-based acrylic resins by making use of proprietary technology. Catalyxx intends to develop an innovative industrial facility to produce bio-alcohols while Arkema is assessing the use of these bio-alcohols as feedstocks for the commercial-scale production of bio-based acrylic resins with lower carbon footprint.

Founder and chairman of Ineos Sir Jim Ratcliffe says that the moment of reckoning has finally arrived for Europe’s chemical industry. It is at a tipping point and only urgent action can save it, he comments.

Asahi Kasei has divested its lead battery separator business – Daramic to Kingswood Capital Management. The Daramic business transfer closed on December 1, 2025.

Storengy has plans to launch a market survey to identify hydrogen storage needs of market players along the future French transmission backbone. The market survey will be conducted in two phases.

Watlow will be showcasing its latest intelligent control and power management technologies at the upcoming trade event SPS 2025 in Nuremberg, Germany. The company will also demonstrate its Edge Process Management Data platform and Powernode controller at the show.

Akzonobel has plans to upgrade its Waukegan, Illinois, facility in the US by investing a hefty amount of 50 million euros. The site is claimed to be the firm’s biggest aerospace coatings production site.

As the year comes to an end, PROCESS Worldwide brings to you five of the most revolutionary green projects of 2024. Innovative and unique, all the projects are expected to leave a lasting impression within the industry for many years to come. Find out everything about these groundbreaking projects here.

The pilot plant has the capacity to recycle complex waste streams from end-of-life vehicles via chemical recycling in order to produce raw materials for new vehicle components such as foam for steering wheels.

Under a Venture Framework Agreement signed between Exxonmobil, Aramco, and Samref, all the parties will work together to assess an upgrade of the Samref refinery, in Yanbu, Saudi Arabia as well as an expansion of the facility into an integrated petrochemical complex.