Topsoe has entered into an offtake agreement with Forestal to provide its SOEC technology for Forestal’s Triskelion e-methanol plant in Galicia, Spain. Triskelion will be the first project to deploy Topsoe’s SOEC for e-methanol production.

With an aim to slash energy consumption, improve production flexibility, and enhance overall process efficiency for the producers, Novonesis and Thyssenkrupp Uhde have launched an enzymatic fat-splitting process for scalable and more sustainable fatty acid production.

With an aim to expand its production capacity for semiconductor-grade sulfuric acid, BASF has plans to invest in a new semiconductor-grade sulfuric acid plant in Ludwigshafen, Germany. The project is expected to meet the growing demand for advanced semiconductor chip manufacturing across Europe.

Japanese energy company Eneos has partnered with Honeywell to begin basic engineering for what is set to be the first commercial-scale hydrogen supply chain in Japan based on MCH (methylcyclohexane). The project aims to facilitate hydrogen transport using Honeywell UOP’s dehydrogenation process, supporting production, storage, distribution, and material recycling within Eneos refineries.

Under a definitive agreement signed between Carbios and Wankai New Materials, both the companies will work together for the large-scale deployment of Carbios’ PET biorecycling technology in Asia. This will also include the development of a PET biorecycling plant in China.

A metaphor for an obvious, unresolved problem that everyone notices but no one talks about – that’s the famous elephant in the room. In the pharmaceutical industry, one specific topic immediately comes to mind: Annex 1. However, PharmaXchange at Bausch+Ströbel impressively demonstrated that this supposed “elephant” was not ignored here, but rather tamed – and viewed as an opportunity.

BASF’s Performance Materials Division has converted all of its European sites to run completely on renewable electricity. The changeover applies to the compounding of Engineering Plastics, Polyurethanes and Thermoplastic Polyurethanes and Specialty Polymers.

Aramco collaborated with Pasqal to deploy Saudi Arabia's first quantum computer and the Middle East's first quantum computer dedicated to industrial applications. The move marks a crucial step in building regional expertise and accelerating the development of quantum applications across the energy, materials, and industrial sectors in the Middle East.

Merck has partnered with Lenovo and Equinix to successfully launch a high-performance computer in Munich, Germany. The computer is capable of accelerating research across diverse sectors such as life science, healthcare and electronics.

Under an agreement signed between Total Energies and Data4, Total Energies will be supplying renewable electricity to Data4’s data centers in Spain for a period of 10 years. The deal will represent a total volume of 610 GWh.