The Amur Gas Chemical Complex has recently secured the funding for its project completion. Now, the worldscale project will be completed on schedule and will provide the additional supply of polyethylene and polypropylene to markets around the world.

Borouge has awarded the EPC contract to Technip Energies for developing a new 1,500 plus KTA ethane cracker unit which will be integrated in the Borouge 4 petrochemical complex in Ruwais, UAE.

With an aim to meet the growing demand of performance chemical products in China, Exxon Mobil has decided to go ahead and build a multi-billion-dollar chemical complex in the Dayawan Petrochemical Industrial Park in Huizhou, Guangdong Province in China. The complex which is expected to produce performance polymers includes a flexible feed steam cracker, three performance polyethylene lines, and two differentiated performance polypropylene lines.

The safe and sustainable supply of high-quality water is a major challenge for municipal authorities - and all the more so in view of growing urbanization. Domo Chemicals, a leading manufacturer of polyamide-based plastics, has a range of solutions specially designed for such applications. Together with the pump supplier Wilo, added value is to be created for water processes.

Plug Power has been chosen by Fertiglobe’s green hydrogen consortium to deliver a world-scale 100 MW electrolyzer in Egypt. Claimed to become one of the largest ‘independently owned’ facility in the world, the electrolyzer will produce up to 90,000 tons of green hydrogen as feedstock for green ammonia production at EBIC in Egypt.

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Coperion has designed a compounding line as a complete turnkey solution for Lanxess. The line has helped the company to produce high-performance polyamide compounds at throughputs never achieved before. Built around the ZSK 92 Mc18 twin screw extruder and equipped with special features such as the ASC strand conveying system, the turnkey system ensured a high degree of automation which helped to deliver high output and maintain good product quality.

Tatneft will make use of Versalis’ technologies to develop new rubber plants at its Togliatti industrial site in Russia. On completion, the plants are expected to produce 70 thousand tons of nitrile butadiene rubber and 30 thousand tons of carboxylate styrene butadiene rubber latexes.

Under a Letter of Intent signed between Lummus Technology and Phigenesis, the Lummus new hope plastics pyrolysis technology will be used by Phigenesis in its new chemical recycling facility which is expected to have a capacity of 150,000 tons per annum. With the help of this technology, Phigenesis will recycle waste plastics to manufacture petrochemical feedstock materials. The project will significantly increase the current chemical recycling capacity in Europe.

Along with tablets, capsules remain the most important form of administration in the pharmaceutical and nutrition sectors. They offer manufacturers and patients numerous advantages. During the process of capsule filling, efficiency potentials often go unfulfilled in production. One lever for this is the capsule filling machines in the FEC series combined with the know-how offered by experts at Fette Compacting.