Dupont has recently inaugurated its new production site in Newark, Delaware, USA. The site manufactures elastomers and is expected to meet the growing demand from the semiconductor and industrials sectors.

OMV has successfully completed the turnaround of its petrochemical unit at the OMV Schwechat Refinery in Austria. Inspection, repair work and around 500,000 bolts were replaced on the equipment in the petrochemical unit of the refinery.

Borealis has closed the acquisition deal of Rialti, an Italy-based company specialized in the production of sustainable polypropylene compounds with a focus on mechanically recycled PP feedstock from post-industrial and post-consumer waste. With this, Borealis aims to expand its PP compounding business and increase its volume of PP compounds based on mechanical recyclates.

Repsol has started up its 2.5 MW electrolyzer at its Petronor industrial center in Biscay, Spain which is expected to produce 350 tons per year of renewable hydrogen for industrial use.

Plug Power’s electrolyzers are expected to produce 43 tons of green hydrogen daily and will replace gray hydrogen in the oil refining process, thereby eliminating 516 tons per day of CO2.

Ima recently showcased its latest innovation – Nebula, a high-speed decontamination tunnel, at the Interpack 2023 trade show in Düsseldorf, Germany.

Arla Foods, one of the leading players in the international dairy market, has embarked on a journey towards their 2050 target of carbon net zero emissions. The first step, however, is achieving efficiency targets of lowering carbon emissions by 63 % at 60 dairies worldwide by 2030. Grundfos is an essential part of these plans.

BASF Pharma Solutions has introduced its Virtual Pharma Assistants (VPA) Premium Services to its VPAs digital services platform. With the help of these Premium Services, users will have the option to purchase access to new exclusive features within the VPAs.

Changing times call for unique as well as innovative solutions and blockchain is truly a game changing technology in today’s ever competing world. Numerous industries are already exploring this technology to keep a track of different aspects of their business as they have realized that the blockchain technology is here to stay and is only going to strengthen its presence from here on.

Carbios has secured building and operating permits for developing the world’s first Pet biorecycling plant in Longlaville, France. The unit will be located adjacent to Indorama Ventures’ existing Pet production plant.