Arkema has obtained the certification for its acrylic acid and ester production facility located in Taixing, Jiangsu Province, China. The project is claimed to be the first acrylic monomers plant in China to receive the ISCC+ certification.

Under a black mass purchase agreement signed between both the parties, BASF and Stena Recycling will work together to develop improved black mass production processes in order to achieve high recovery rates for metals to support closed loop solutions for the European electric vehicle battery market.

The overall global market for industrial valves is expected to rise in the coming years. Valve manufacturers have introduced various kinds of valves for diverse applications and industries this year. PROCESS Worldwide highlights some of the latest solutions in this space.

Under a partnership frame agreement signed between both the parties, Metso has been selected as EV Metals’ Technical Partner for developing a Lithium Chemicals Plant in the Yanbu Industrial City, Saudi Arabia.

Nouryon has successfully completed 50 % of its capacity expansion for colloidal silica products at its manufacturing facility in Wisconsin, USA. With this move, the company aims to expand its global colloidal silica manufacturing footprint.

Under a strategic collaboration agreement between the two parties, Adnoc and MHI will work together to explore potential opportunities for building low carbon energy supply chains as well as advance carbon neutral solutions. The move is expected to speed up decarbonization in the energy industry.

Michelin, Ifpen and Axens have recently inaugurated what it claims to be the first industrial-scale demonstrator of a plant producing bio-based butadiene from bioethanol. The demonstrator is built at Michelin’s site in Bassens near Bordeaux in France.

PROCESS Worldwide brings to you the ‘Top 10 plant engineering projects of October 2023’ from all over the world. Right from Solvay developing an electric furnace at its silica plant in France to Exxonmobil’s technology being selected for a demonstration plant in the Neom project, find out all the projects making headlines here.

The feasibility study has been awarded by Man Energy Solutions and the study is expected to investigate the full integration of Aker Carbon Capture’s standardized and modularized Just Catch 100 unit into a full power-to-fuel solution.

Exxonmobil’s advanced fluid bed Methanol-to-Gasoline technology has been chosen by Aramco for the development of a synthetic fuel demonstration plant in Neom’s Hydrogen Innovation and Development Center in Saudi Arabia.