With an aim to contribute to sustainable fertilizer production and under an agreement signed between Stamicarbon and Shchekinoazot, both the companies will jointly explore, develop and incorporate green technologies at Shchekinoazot’s existing and new enterprises in Russia.

BASF has acquired Sinopec Shanghai Petrochemical Company’s assets in Jinshan, China with an aim to boost alkoxylate production in the backdrop of its rising demand in the Asia Pacific market especially China.

Covenant Energy has chosen Haldor Topsoe’s Hydroflex and H2bridge technologies for its renewable diesel facility in Canada. With the help of the technologies, Covenant Energy aims to produce the cleanest renewable diesel across the globe.

Lonza has expanded its collaboration with Moderna for drug substance manufacturing of the Covid-19 Vaccine Moderna. A new drug substance manufacturing line will also be installed at Lonza’s Geleen site in the Netherlands.

On Day 1 of Achema Pulse, a session was held on ‘Modular Production: Transforming the Process Industry with BioPhorum (global) and ICES, AA*STAR (Singapore)’. Gabriel Loh, Team Leader at the Institute of Chemical and Engineering Sciences in Singapore and Clare Simpson, Technology Roadmapping Phorum Lead at Bio Phorum presented their views on the activities in the biopharmaceutical sector by BioPhorum and the research activities in Singapore by A*STAR.

Total Energies and Novatek have signed a MOU for reducing CO₂ emission resulting from the production of LNG. The companies will also work together to develop large-scale carbon capture and storage solutions and explore new opportunities for developing decarbonized hydrogen and ammonia.

Under a MOU signed between Yara International and Jera, both the companies will work together for production, delivery and supply chain development of blue and green ammonia which aims at decarbonizing power production in Japan.

The Plastics Europe association has revealed that European plastics manufacturers are planning a significant increase in chemical recycling investment i.e. from 3.17 billion USD in 2025 to 8.7 billion USD in 2030. With this move, manufacturers will aim to produce 1.2MT in 2025 and 3.4 MT in 2030 of recycled plastics.

Siemens Energy and Messer Group have collaborated to work on industrial green hydrogen projects in the chemical complex of Tarragona, Spain. Messer Ibérica has already delivered three clean hydrogen projects with a total electrolyzer capacity of 70 MW to the Spanish Government.

With an aim to support decarbonization efforts in Eastern United States, Mitsubishi Power and Texas Brine have joined forces to enhance Mitsubishi Power’s Strategic Infrastructure of Long-duration hydrogen storage solutions across North America.