BASF and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have collaborated under a public-funded research project to design a formulation and coating model for multilayered battery coatings as multilayered battery anodes exhibit higher energy density and significantly improve production efficiency.

CPhI has highlighted that continuous processing, PAT (Process Analytical Technology), and PAC (Process Analytical Chemistry) are now being combined in the pharma industry order to produce better-quality products at a lower cost. This new manufacturing strategy has gained speed owing to government’s efforts to ‘reshore’ manufacturing. CPhI’s recent annual report has also predicted that China and the USA will lead the pharma market in innovations by 2030 in the backdrop of mass personalized therapeutics, cobots, AI, and automation delivering process improvements.

With an estimated project cost of 950 million dollars, Renewable Energy Group has plans to upgrade its existing Geismar renewable diesel project in Louisiana, USA as well as expand the project in order to produce 340 million gallons of renewable diesel per year.

The ‘marinized’ electrolyzer project will be developed at Grimsby in the UK for renewable hydrogen production. The Oyster Project is funded by the Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking, a public private partnership of the European Commission and will develop and test an electrolyzer system designed to be integrated with offshore wind turbines.

Wood’s scope of work for Humber Zero, one of the leading industrial decarbonization projects in the UK includes the development and integration of designs across the FEED packages including interface management, safety studies, licensor selection and scoping of future services.

Chevron has plans to invest more than 10 billion dollars by 2028 to achieve its 2030 growth targets for new energy businesses such as renewable fuels, hydrogen, and carbon capture. This includes 2 billion dollars to lower the company’s carbon intensity operations.

Dow’s net-zero carbon emissions ethylene and derivatives complex is expected to more than triple the company’s ethylene and polyethylene capacity from its Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta site in Canada. The site's existing assets will be retrofitted to meet the requirements of net-zero carbon emissions (Scope 1 and 2). The project is expected to decarbonize ~20 % of the firm’s global ethylene capacity while growing polyethylene supply by ~15 %.

In line with company’s ‘Solvay One Planet’ strategy, the firm has plans to phase out the use of coal at its soda ash facility in Rheinberg, Germany. For this purpose, the company has commissioned its maiden biomass boiler and intends to develop a second biomass boiler, which will make Rheinberg the first soda ash plant in the world to be powered primarily by renewable energy.

Mehrer Compression introduces its TVx-Compressor Series to the North American markets. With this move, the company has made its series ready for the ASME world market.

With an annual production capacity of 30,000 tons, the new ABS compound facility will be developed at LG Chem’s Ohio Tech Center site in the USA and is expected to meet the growing demand for high value-add ABS in the region. The company also intends to invest 100 million dollars for establishing its American and European Tech Center by 2023.