The World Future Energy Summit 2025 was held from January 14 – 16 at the Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre in Abu Dhabi, UAE. Industry experts appealed for a surge in new tech and global climate change ambitions at the three-day event.

Solvay has now achieved 100 % renewable energy at its Rheinberg site in Germany with the installation of a second biomass boiler at its soda ash and bicarbonate plant. With this move, the plant is expected to reduce its CO2 emissions by 65 % annually as compared to its 2021 levels.

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.

Under a collaboration between Henkel and Celanese, both the firms will work together to produce water-based adhesives made from captured CO2 emissions. The move is expected to create new opportunities for customers in the packaging and consumer goods sector to increase the renewable content of their products.

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.

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.

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…

Reolum has selected Johnson Matthey’s e-methanol technology for its La Robla Nueva Energia project in Spain which is claimed to be one of the largest e-methanol production plants in Europe.

Pengerang Biorefinery, a joint venture between Petronas Mobility Lestari, Enilive, and Euglena, has awarded KT-Kinetics Technology with licensing as well as engineering, procurement, construction and commissioning services for a hydrogen production unit in Johor, Malaysia.

The expansion of the petrochemical complex in Daya Bay, Huizhou, south China will include a third ethylene cracker as well as associated downstream derivatives units producing chemicals including linear alpha olefins.