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.

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.

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.

Honeywell’s Ecofining technology has been selected by the St1 Refinery to produce sustainable aviation fuel. The Gothenburg plant is expected to produce 200,000 tons of renewable fuels annually and can utilize flexible feedstocks, including used cooking oil, animal fats, and tall oil fatty acids from paper and pulp mills.

Under an agreement signed between Neste and Braskem, Neste will supply renewable and recycled feedstocks to Braskem for producing polymers and chemicals. The products will be sold primarily in South America.

Everyone wants hydrogen - but isn't it dangerous? After all, the gas is non-toxic but highly flammable and a high level of safety awareness is key to safe operation that protects the environment, personnel and infrastructure - so it's high time to take a look at what needs to be considered when handling hydrogen in pipeline and infrastructure projects, for example. What technology is needed to detect the colorless H2 flames? How do hydrogen leaks become visible? And what concrete steps can be taken today?

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…

The performance testing of the world's largest all-electric ammonia cracking system has successfully been commissioned and completed by Syzygy Plasmonics and Lotte Chemical in Ulsan, South Korea.

BP Europa has plans to sell its Ruhr Oel – BP Gelsenkirchen operation in Germany which includes the BP refinery in Gelsenkirchen and DHC Solvent Chemie in Mülheim an der Ruhr. The move is in line with BP’s goal of delivering a simpler, more focused, higher value company.