Ineos Styrolution, Recycling Technologies and Trinseo have advanced in their plans to construct commercial polystyrene (PS) recycling plants in Europe. The three companies aim to make PS a circular material through depolymerization.

Yara International, Statkraft and Aker Horizons have entered into a partnership to establish Europe’s first large-scale green ammonia project in Porsgrunn, Norway. The mega project is expected to accelerate the green energy transition in the region.

The hydrogen pilot project is being carried out in a commercial scale cogeneration plant for the first time in Belgium. The move is expected to gradually replace natural gas by hydrogen for generating electricity and heat.

BASF and OMV have worked together on an innovative and sustainable technology for producing high-purity isobutene. The novel technology has now been installed at OMV´s new ISO C4 plant in Burghausen, Germany.

The MOL Group has begun biofuel production at its Danube Refinery in Hungary. The move is in line with the company’s updated strategy of ‘Shape Tomorrow’ and the firm will make use of bio feedstock to create sustainable diesel.

Borealis plans to build a new, world-scale propanedehydrogenation plant in Belgium to guarantee the security of supplies for propylene. In the first step of the Project, the chemical company has launched a feasibility study.

Carbon Nanotube (CNT) is used as material for cathodes in electric vehicle batteries. LG Chem recently expanded its 1,200-ton Yeosu CNT Plant 2 in Korea and has also commenced commercial operations.

Jens Bukrinski, Chief R&D Officer, SB3000 has recently stated in a conference that its continuous manufacturing μLOT technology could reduce the pharmaceutical industry’s use of toxic chemicals by 100 times.

Man Energy Solutions has secured the order for four Mega-MPTA trains from Chinese firm Jiangsu Jiatong Energy Co. The trains will be deployed at the company’s PTA production unit in Rudong, Nantong City, Jiangsu province, China.

Eni’s new biomass treatment unit was launched 18 months ago and has recently started production. Located in Gela, Italy, the plant will make use of raw material waste to produce biofuels.