Borealis has plans to invest a whooping amount of 49 million euros in order to scale up polypropylene production at its manufacturing site in Burghausen, Germany.

Lyondell Basell has plans to expand its Purell portfolio in North America. With this move, the company aims to brings its proven service model, regulatory compliance and innovation-driven portfolio closer to its North American customers.

Songwon Industrial Co. will be investing a huge amount in Saudi Arabia to develop a One Pack Systems production facility. With this project, the company aims to strengthen its position in the polyolefin industry and also deliver high-quality, locally manufactured OPS products to its regional customers with shorter lead times.

Lummus Technology’s Novolen polypropylene technology has been chosen by Vioneo for a new grassroots plant in Antwerp, Belgium. The plant will be a part of the world’s first industrial scale fossil-free plastics production complex based on green methanol.

BASF has introduced a modern amine catalyst – Lupragen N 208 to its portfolio of Lupragen amine catalysts for the production of polyurethane foams. The low-VOC polyurethane catalyst will be produced at the firm’s Ludwigshafen Verbund site in Germany.

Spray Engineering Devices has awarded a contract to Lanzatech for developing a next generation ethanol facility using sugarcane bagasse. Expected to process up to 300 tons per day of bagasse, the facility will be established in Uttar Pradesh, India, and is a key component of the "SED Smart Village" concept.

Plastic Energy has successfully produced its first batch of recycled oil at its Geleen plant, a joint venture facility with Sabic, in the Netherlands. Once fully operational, the plant will recycle 20,000 tonnes of plastic waste per year.

With an aim to strengthen its position in China, Clariant has recently expanded its pharmaceutical excipients and specialty chemicals facilities at Daya Bay in China.

With an aim to accelerate localized innovation and customer collaboration in China, Nouryon has recently launched its new innovation center in Shanghai, China. The facility will significantly enhance the company’s technical capabilities with investments in testing and analytical equipment focused on high-growth sectors like agriculture, electronics, construction and pharmaceuticals.

Sulzer has recently inaugurated a new biopolymer engineering and scale-up center in Winterthur Töss, Switzerland. This new center marks the company’s fourth location in the country.