Under a contract signed between Verbund and Lanxess, Verbund will supply a total of around 200,000 MWh of green electricity to Lanxess from its existing hydroelectric power plants on the Inn River in Bavaria, Germany.

Asahi Kasei has collaborated with Nippon Steel and Nippon Steel Trading to convert pure titanium scrap generated during the manufacturing of electrolysis cells into a raw material for pure titanium.

The Ta’ziz Methanol Company, a joint venture between Ta’ziz and Proman, has secured financing of 2 billion dollars for developing UAE’s first world scale methanol plant in Al Ruwais Industrial City, Abu Dhabi.

With an aim to advance circular aromatics from plastic waste, Biobtx has selected Bluealp as the technology partner for its project in Delfzijl, the Netherlands. The Biobtx project is expected to convert hard-to-recycle mixed plastic waste into high-value circular aromatics.

Dupont Cyrel Flexographic Solutions has opened its new customer technology center at the Dupont Experimental Station in Wilmington, USA. The company also officially launched its latest innovative solution – Dupont Cyrel Renew at the inauguration ceremony.

Tosoh Corporation has recently announced that it has developed a hydrocarbon‑based polymer electrolyte for polymer electrolyte membrane water electrolysis systems. The new electrolyte offers superior proton conductivity, higher gas barrier properties and lower hydrated state swelling as compared to conventional fluorinated polymer electrolyte materials.

Andritz has recently inaugurated a new Electrolyzer Gigafactory in Erfurt, Germany. The Thuringia's Prime Minister Mario Voigt was also present at the event. The new facility will cater to the growing green-hydrogen market in Europe.

Pharmaceutical manufacturing is entering a digital era. From AI and digital twins to supercomputers and quantum computing, these technologies are transforming drug discovery, clinical trials, and production. As Siemens’ Andrew Whytock explains, when data is clean, contextualized and usable, and combined with high performance computing, companies can solve more complex problems at speed and the result is better quality, greater flexibility and more reliable right first-time manufacturing.

With an aim to strengthen its competitiveness in Germany, Solvay has realigned its portfolio, investments and will position its Bad Wimpfen site as a global hub for Nocolok production, research and application.

Lummus Technology’s Novolen polypropylene technology has been chosen by Vioneo for a new grassroots plant in Antwerp, Belgium. The plant will be a part of the world’s first industrial scale fossil-free plastics production complex based on green methanol.