Every Thursday, S&P Global Platts will publish a price for liquid green hydrogen for the following week based on Plug’s supply and demand. With this move, Plug has already entered into multiple spot pricing agreements with several key industry players.

Air Liquide has plans to develop a new large-scale Air Separation Unit in Naoshima Island, Japan. The project is expected to meet the growing demand for copper as well as support the production expansion of Mitsubishi Materials.

Claimed to be the world’s first biorefinery for the production of hardwood-based biochemicals, UPM Biochemicals has selected Bilfinger as its maintenance partner for the landmark project.

Cefic has recently launched its new competitiveness report. The study confirms and emphasizes the severity of the situation for the EU chemicals industry by exploring how the EU chemical industry compares competitively with the USA, China, Japan, Brazil, India and the Middle East.

Neste has plans to re-evaluate its earlier investment strategy of investing into a 120 MW electrolyzer project to produce renewable hydrogen at its Porvoo refinery in Finland. The core reasons behind the withdrawal are the firm’s challenging market conditions and financial performance.

Smart technologies such as artificial intelligence and generative artificial intelligence are in vogue. Its many benefits have encouraged industrial players, especially in the chemical and oil & gas sector, to explore the technologies and even incorporate it into their industrial plants. Curious to know more? Read on…

EPC Engineering & Technologies has partnered with Avantium to commercialize the continuous polymerization of PEF (PEF cpol Technology). For this, Avantium and EPC will integrate their respective technologies and processes, together with the solid state polymerization of Polymetrix.

Phillips 66 has recently announced its plans to cease operations at its Los Angeles-area refinery in the USA in the fourth quarter of 2025. The company is also expected to work with the state of California to supply fuel markets and meet ongoing consumer demand.

The Rudong site in China is BASF Agricultural Solutions’ first CO2-emission-free production site. The site has modified its existing heating system from fossil-based steam to renewable energy.

The Global Impact Coalition (GIC) spearheads an industry collaboration that aims to scale technologies and business models for reducing carbon emissions and advancing circularity in the chemicals sector. Charlie Tan, CEO of Global Impact Coalition shares detailed insights about the objective of the GIC, projects initiated by the consortium in the past one-year, upcoming opportunities for clean technologies as well as the challenges faced by the chemical industry. Read on to know more…