Under a commercial cooperation agreement signed between Lummus Technology and Texplore, Lummus Technology will license Texplore’s Excene HDPE technology. Lummus will also provide engineering design for plant construction, services for plant commissioning and start up while Texplore will provide their EL-Cat catalyst supply.

Chemical company Solvay plans to split into two independent, listed companies in the second half of 2023: Specialty Co is to operate as a pure specialty chemicals company with accelerated growth potential; Essential Co is to focus primarily on sustainable solutions as a supplier of basic chemicals.

Evonik has started-up a new production plant for gas separation membranes in Austria. With a hefty investment of double-digit million-euros, the plant aims to meet the firm’s goal of increasing its sustainable Next Generation Solutions.

Solvay has introduced its latest solution – The new Xydar LCP G-330 HH material which meets the challenging thermal and insulation requirements of battery module plates of EV models operating with higher voltage systems.

PROCESS Worldwide brings to you the ‘Top 10 plant engineering projects of April 2023’ from all over the world. Right from UAE’s first large-scale methanol production facility to Emerson automating one of the world’s largest ethane crackers, find out all the projects making headlines here.

Afry has secured an engineering services assignment from APK for developing its new plastics recycling plant in Germany. The new unit is expected to treat 40,000 tons of plastic waste every year.

The oral route of drug administration is the most convenient for patients[1] and include single-unit dosage form (SUDF) and multiple-unit dosage form (MUDF)[2]. SUDF are characterized by a single core, which may comprise a neutral core coated with a layer containing the active ingredient, or an active core in which the API is mixed with other excipients[3].

With the series of process runs at its Porvoo refinery in Finland, Neste aims to understand how different types of waste plastics behave during chemical recycling in the refinery processes.

BASF recently held a groundbreaking ceremony for a new acrylic acid complex at its Verbund site in Zhanjiang, China. With an annual production capacity of approximately 400,000 metric tons of BA and 100,000 metric tons of 2-EHA, the project is expected to further expand the firm’s production capacities in the acrylics value chain in China.

The Ima Group has established a new division for the e-commerce market which will focus on automated packaging solutions. The move has been undertaken in the background of increasing demand for online shopping.