Plant construction without annoying interfaces — There are not many technology and plant construction firms who can cover the full range of engineering services. But the EPC Group can! PROCESS visited the traditional — yet highly innovative — company from Thüringen/Germany.

Akzo Nobel Specialty Chemicals and Ineos Nitriles have signed a long-term co-operation agreement that will allow Akzo Nobel to expand its production of biodegradable chelates, used in detergents and other industries, utilizing one of Ineos Nitriles' chemical products.

More and more consumers know about their CO2-Footprint and are increasingly demanding climate-neutral packages. The packaging enterprise Elopak wants to achieve absolute sustainability by 2020. What role here does the chemical company Sabic play, you can read here...

Asahi Kasei Europe started a demonstration project for the production of green hydrogen at the Hydrogen Competence Center h2herten in Herten, Germany. The project will transform simulated electric power from wind energy into hydrogen.

Akzo Nobel Specialty Chemicals announced that it will upgrade its Rotterdam chlor-alkali plant to strengthen development of the local industrial cluster.

Thyssen Krupp has been awarded a contract to perform a feasibility study for a new green hydrogen project by the Australian hydrogen infrastructure company Hydrogen Utility (H2U). As part of the project, a 30 MW water electrolysis plant as well as a facility for sustainable ammonia production are planned to be constructed near Port Lincoln in South Australia.

Axens awarded the first Crude-to-Paraxylene Complex in China from Hengli Petrochemical.

Honeywell’s Oleflex technology will enable the firm to convert propane into high-quality propylene that meets the strict purity requirements for producing resins, fibers and plastics.

Lyondell Basell, one of the world’s largest plastics, chemical and refining companies, plans to build a mega-size propylene oxide/tertiary butyl alcohol plant at its Channelview chemical park.

One solution for handling fluctuations in the generation of solar energy is to store the energy in the form of hydrogen. For the economical application of this technology, it is however necessary to increase the efficiency of direct solar water-splitting. An international team of scientists has now succeeded in increasing this value to a new record level.