Europe’s current high energy costs, regulatory complexity, and burden along with the increasingly fragmented markets pose a long-term risk to the region’s prosperity, shares the MOL Group. For this reason, the company urges Europe to unite behind a new industrial agenda.

With an aim to accelerate localized innovation and customer collaboration in China, Nouryon has recently launched its new innovation center in Shanghai, China. The facility will significantly enhance the company’s technical capabilities with investments in testing and analytical equipment focused on high-growth sectors like agriculture, electronics, construction and pharmaceuticals.

Meorga goes international: With new exhibition venues in Vienna and Tarragona, exhibitors gain new opportunities to reach target audiences more efficiently and to expand their market presence in a targeted way. Bernd Weinig, Director Trade Fair Solutions & Partnerships at Vogel Communications Group, is driving this forward and offers insight into the further development.

Braskem has plans to expand ethylene and polyethylene production at its Rio de Janeiro facility in Brazil. A mega investment of R$ 4.2 billion has already been approved for the expansion.

Cellibre specializes in sustainable biomanufacturing and Symrise has made a strategic equity investment in the U.S.-based biotechnology company. With this move, Symrise will gain access to proprietary, fermentation-based technology which will assist in scalable production of high-value ingredients across food, beverage, cosmetics, and nutraceutical sectors.

There have been many incidents around the world where a fire or an explosion has occurred at an industrial plant, leading to loss of money, productivity and even life. To curb such accidents from happening again, industry players opt for solutions that are explosion-proof or flameproof as it significantly reduces and even eliminates the likelihood of a dangerous catastrophe.

Eni has filed an application for Environmental Impact Assessment and aims to convert its existing Hydrocracker unit using the Ecofining technology. It will also develop a pre-treatment unit for waste and residues.

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries has announced that it has achieved the target performance of over 99.5 vol % ethanol purity, which meets domestic fuel standards, at a pilot plant for membrane dehydration systems installed at MHI's Nagasaki Carbon Neutral Park within the Nagasaki District Research & Innovation Center in Japan.

Axens has recently started up a 100 % Sustainable Aviation Fuel facility at its site in Asia. With the capacity to entirely convert renewable feedstock into high value Sustainable Aviation Fuel, the unit is based on Axens’ Vegan technology.

A game-changing method could cut cement production’s carbon emissions by up to 80 %: By using steel waste and methane in a novel catalytic process, researchers rethink calcium carbonate decomposition — offering a powerful new path to climate-friendly cement.