In a step to shift its power business toward cleaner energy, Total SA agreed to buy Paris-based utility Direct Energie, adding 2.6 million electricity and gas customers in France and Belgium.

Air Liquide is expected to invest 99 million dollars for the construction of a ‘new generation’ hydrogen production unit.

Shell has published a report, outlining its strategy for a transition to lower-carbon energy. The Shell Energy Transition Report describes its understanding of the transition and what it means for the company.

Machine malfunctions and breakdowns can cause long downtimes, especially in intralogistics, causing production and delivery to come to a complete halt. High-quality systems can help prevent such costly consequences beforehand, but they still require maintenance and service. This is where the customer support experts come in.

Exxon adapts a technology proven in its latest projects at Baytown and Singapore in Europe: the petrochemical giant plans to upgrade the hydrocracker at its refinery in Rotterdam to produce EHCTM Group II base stocks and ultra-low sulfur diesel.

Following the opening of the world-scale ammonia plant in Freeport, Praxair has started to supply hydrogen and nitrogen to Yara Freeport LLC. The plant, which is a joint venture between Yara International and BASF, has a capacity of 750,000 metric tons per year.

PROCESS Innovation Award nominates the Champions of Innovations 2015 — A smartphone that understands pumps? A virtual chromatography process? An innovative material? These and many other developments have the potential to fundamentally change the industry. Anyone believing that all significant inventions in the process industry have already been made is much mistaken: At Achema 2015, we have searched for the innovation champions — with surprising results.

Yara International ASA and BASF opened a new world-scale ammonia plant in Freeport, USA. The $ 600-million facility uses production process, based on by-product hydrogen instead of natural gas.

World–scale peroxide plant project in Saudi–Arabia: The Saudi Hydrogen Peroxide Company, a joint–venture of Solvay and Sadara, just stated the construction of one of the world's largest hydrogen peroxide plants...

Akzo Nobel's Specialty Chemicals business is studying plans to expand production of high-purity vacuum salt at its Delfzijl site in the Netherlands. The project would increase output at the facility by around 25 %.