Evonik has plans to sell off its printable battery technology – Taettooz to Innovation Lab with an aim to commercialize the technology which can be used in the medical field for more convenient monitoring of vital functions.

The consortium has jointly developed a surface printing mono-material film packaging material technology. The technology complies with the European Union’s Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation which focuses on building a low-carbon and circular global economy.

Christoph Kowitz who currently heads Wacker’s Corporate Research Department has been appointed as the President and CEO of Wacker Chemical Corporation in the USA. He will succeed David Wilhoit who is retiring from the firm.

Lyondell Basell will be establishing its integrated plastic waste recycling hub in Knapsack, Germany. The project is expected to be complete in phases and will combine various advanced sorting and recycling operations.

Kemira has partnered with PA Consulting to develop new renewable barrier coatings for sustainable food packaging. The new technology is based on a biotechnology process that helps the production of new renewable polymers with enzymatic polymerization.

Whether for the sealing of dams or as a decorative upholstery material for furniture: Plastic films as well as other plastic products from Renolit stand for maximum functionality. To ensure that this remains true in the future, the company continuously optimises its production processes. And it does this by utilising Vega sensors for level, flow and pressure.

Sabic, Napco and a leading player of the bakery industry in Saudi Arabia Fonte have joined hands and introduced the country’s first ever bread packaging made from fully recycled post-consumer plastic. Sabic’s certified circular polyethylene have been used to package the Oat Arabic Bread.

PROCESS Worldwide brings to you the ‘Top 10 plant engineering projects of April 2024’ from all over the world. Right from the MOL Group inaugurating one of the largest green hydrogen plants in Europe to BASF, Sabic and Linde starting up the world’s first large-scale electrically heated steam cracking furnace, find out all the projects making headlines here.

Resource scarcity, mobility, nutrition and climate protection are among the global challenges and megatrends of our time. Mechanical process engineering plays an important role here, because without mixers, separators, extruders, dispersers and the like, many production processes would come to a standstill.

PROCESS Worldwide brings to you the ‘Top 10 plant engineering projects of May 2022’ from all over the world. Right from developing a world scale ethylene plant in Europe to building one of the world’s largest PDH units in China, find out all the projects making headlines here.