The Renewable Carbon Initiative has released a report presenting ten policy proposals to accelerate the transition to renewable carbon in feedstocks and materials. With this, the Initiative aims to bridge the gap between innovation and large-scale implementation.

A new safety video has recently been released by the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board. The video focuses on the investigation into the fatal combustible dust explosions and fires at the Didion Milling facility in Cambria, Wisconsin, USA that occurred on May 31, 2017.

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.

Kaust and Aramco have entered into an intellectual property license agreement for commercialization of the Hybrid Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Crawler Technology. The technology boasts of merging aerial and terrestrial robotic capabilities to support inspection, monitoring, and other advanced industrial applications. 

ABB has introduced the GCP100 gas chromatograph which has set a new standard in cybersecurity and real-time analysis of complex gas mixtures in the natural gas, biogas, oil and petrochemical industries.

Numerous four-legged robot dogs are inspecting different spaces across the industrial plant; facility personnel are wearing head-mounted displays which helps them to get access to detailed information about an equipment or process in real time and diverse physical assets of a system or production process at the plant can be replicated into a virtual system, get ready for the plant of the future!

Largest acquisition in the history of the VOGEL Group. Strategic transaction strengthens position in B2B marketing and expands digital service portfolio.

A new report titled ‘Bio-based Building Blocks and Polymers – Global Capacities, Production and Trends 2025–2030’ has been compiled by nova-Institute. The report forecasts that the expansion of the global bio-based polymer market will be led by Europe and North America while Asia remains a major growth region.

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

New Energy Risk (NER) has been chosen by Topsoe as its insurance partner for its SOEC (solid oxide electrolyzer cells) hydrogen electrolyzer products. With this, the company aims to de-risk the development of SOEC as well as the customers’ green hydrogen and Power-to-X projects.