PROCESS Worldwide brings to you the most recent plant engineering projects from all over the world. Right from breakthrough technologies to big ticket EPCC (Engineering, Procurement, Construction and Commissioning) contracts, find out all the projects making headlines here.

PROCESS Worldwide brings to you the ‘Top 10 plant engineering projects of October 2021’ from all over the world. Right from the Rotating Olefins Cracker technology advancing the energy transition of olefin production to Ineos investing more than 2 billion dollars on green hydrogen projects in Europe, find out all the projects making headlines here.

Arkema has plans to build a new polyamide 11 powders plant at its Changshu platform in China. The facility is expected to come on stream in the first quarter of 2023 and aims to support the growing demand for advanced bio-circular materials in Asia.

Agilyx’s existing patent for chemical recycling of polystyrene has now been expanded to include all waste plastics. The company’s depolymerization technology is capable of breaking down all waste plastic polymers into their respective discrete monomers.

Arkema and Polymem have won the American Chemical Society Team Innovation Award for the development of specialized water ultrafiltration membranes made from Kynar PVDF resins. The membranes support a circular economy and proves beneficial for wastewater treatment.

Carbon Recycling International (CRI) has collaborated with Jiangsu Sailboat Petrochemicals to establish the Jiangsu Sailboat green methanol plant in China. Based on CRI’s ETL technology, the new unit is expected to recycle 150,000 metric tons of CO2 and 20,000 metric tons of H2 per year in order to produce 100,000 tons of methanol annually.

Invista Nylon Chemicals has plans to double its current nylon 6,6 polymer production at the Shanghai Chemical Industry Park in China in order to meet the rising domestic demand. With this move, the plant’s capacity will reach 400,000 tons/year.

Market research firm, Research and Markets has recently released an in-depth report on the impact of Covid-19 on the Chinese chemical industry. In the report, various regional players, laws and policies, consumer behaviour and macro-economic factors have also been analysed.

In line with the Scottish Government’s ambition of achieving net zero emissions by 2045 in the country, Ineos Grangemouth will further invest 1.37-billion-dollars in addition to the over 686 million dollars already invested at its Grangemouth site in Scotland to deliver emissions savings of more than 60 % across the site by 2030 and thus, achieve net zero emissions by 2045.

PROCESS Worldwide brings to you the ‘Top 10 plant engineering projects of September 2021’ from all over the world. Right from building the world’s largest epichlorohydrin unit to investing 360 million dollars for establishing an API manufacturing unit, find out all the projects making headlines here.