The integrated, international oil, gas and chemicals company, OMV, and Kommunalkredit Austria have announced a joint investment in the construction of Austria’s largest electrolysis plant on the premises of Schwechat Refinery.

Solvay has established the new electronic grade facility at its Bernburg site in Germany for producing high-purity hydrogen peroxide. With its new production line (EG20), the company aims to become one of the leading suppliers to the European semiconductor industry.

Perhaps the boldest chemical engineering project in decades. BASF, Sabic and Linde have plans to establish the project at BASF’s Ludwigshafen site in Germany. The partners will make use of renewable electricity for the project which aims at reducing CO2 emissions by as much as 90 %.

Under a MOU signed between SK Global Chemical and Zhejiang Satellite, both the companies will come together to form a joint company which will be responsible for the production and sales of ethylene acrylic acid. SK Global Chemical and Zhejiang Satellite are also planning to build an eco-friendly, high value-added packaging material plant in Lianyungang, China.

The volumes of data currently being generated and processed in industrial production systems are increasing tremendously. At the same time, the Profibus&Profinet International (PI) range of technologies is growing. Moreover, new applications from the area of Industry 4.0, such as advanced asset management, condition monitoring or AI-based devices, are increasingly being added to existing technologies.

Future Market Insights recently launched a report on Polysulfide Market. The study concludes that growth in the coming years is expected to be driven by rising polysulfide consumption in downstream markets.

Total and the Shenergy Group have entered into an agreement to supply up to 1.4 million tons per annum of LNG from Total, along with the establishment of a joint venture to further market LNG in China.

Gazprom, Rusgazdobycha and Nipigaz have undertaken the move in order to optimize the project costs. The complex is a vital project for the gas processing and chemical cluster that is being developed in the region.

Mc Dermott’s CB&I Storage Solutions business has bagged the contract from New Jersey Natural Gas for a power-to-gas facility in Howell, New Jersey, USA. The new unit will produce green hydrogen from solar energy and will feed it into a natural gas distribution network for diverse applications.

Brent Kedzierski, Head of Learning Strategy and Innovation at Shell and Ian Willetts, Vice President for Process & Simulation, Aveva share their perspectives on how more personalized solutions will enable workers to take charge of their work thus resulting in enhanced performance.