Siemens Energy and Linde Engineering have entered into a strategic partnership under which both the companies will make use of their portfolios to produce and optimise technologies as well as equipment to improve the sustainability footprint of petrochemical units.

The pilot project ‘Chemical recycling of plastics from automobile construction’ is being led by the Thinktank Industrial Resource Strategies at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and the car major Audi. The project aims to use waste from engineering plastics and process it into pyrolysis oil in order to create new components.

The Louisiana-based integrated polyethylene joint venture transaction has been successfully completed by Lyondell Basell and Sasol. Under the terms of the agreement, Lyondell Basell will operate the assets owned by the JV and also market the polyethylene products on behalf of the JV.

With the acquisition of Medipac, a Swedish manufacturer of tube filling machines, Romaco will become the only supplier in the world to offer complete line configurations for all effervescents. The contracts just were signed.

With the new oil-free DSS scroll vacuum pump, Atlas Copco is expanding its range of dry industrial pumps. The robust, low-wear pump is particularly suitable for vacuum generation in the rough vacuum range.

On December 17, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (U.S. FDA) has plans to conduct an advisory committee meeting in order to discuss the emergency use authorisation (EUA) for Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine.

Under a joint venture agreement signed between Thermo Fisher Scientific and Innoforce, both the companies will work together to establish a biologics and steriles drug development and manufacturing facility in Hangzhou, China.

BASF’s new plant has been developed in Pontecchio Marconi, Italy and will offer its Nor technology platform to the expanding agriculture industry. The platform comprises of a range of light and thermal stabilisers which prove beneficial for plasticulture applications.

Under a strategic partnership signed between Royal DSM and Neste, DSM will help Neste to create high-performance sustainable polymers in order to reduce the carbon footprints of its own products and also support the circular economy transition.

The UK has become the first country in the world to approve a Covid-19 vaccine in order to combat the global pandemic. The first doses of the vaccine developed by Pfizer-Biontech will be available to the UK immediately.