Materials manufacturer Covestro has broken ground on two new facilities in Shanghai to meet growing demand for polyurethane dispersions (PUDs) and elastomers. Together, the new facilities comprise a mid-double-digit million euro investment.

Can hydrogen play out as chlorine chemistry’s trump card? — Safe, clean, and sustainable — Eurochlor’s position paper on its Mid-Century Strategy for the chlorine industry reads like green buzzword bingo. Yet it’s clear that if the European Union wants to become carbon-neutral by 2050, it will have to take chlorine chemistry into account. It’s just as well that electrolysis provides a sought-after co-product.

China's energy sector and the country's petrochemical industry are preparing for a future with less fossil fuel. The ‘development of non-fossil energy’ should be a priority from now on, according to a recently published white paper by the Chinese Government, the main points of which PROCESS (China) summarizes in an analysis.

Hydeal España, the world's largest integrated renewable and competitive hydrogen hub has selected four EPC companies – Vinci Construction, Técnicas Reunidas, Power China Guizhou Engineering and TSK to carry out the technical design, architecture and supply chain of the first Hydeal España plants in order to produce renewable hydrogen.

Daring to do something new, but preserve the tried and tested values. That is the motto of Dechema Managing Director Dr Andreas Förster. In recent years, the professional society has become more practical and application-oriented. And there are even more ideas. Förster reveals what these are in the PROCESS interview.

Only a fraction of the material that could be turned into new plastic is currently recycled. Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden have now demonstrated how the carbon atoms in mixed waste can replace all fossil raw materials in the production of new plastic.

Air Products and Gunvor Petroleum Rotterdam have plans to develop a green hydrogen import terminal in Rotterdam. Green ammonia will be received at the site from Air Products’ green hydrogen production locations.

Vattenfall and Preem are currently exploring the idea to speed up the development of a value chain which connects offshore wind and hydrogen with the refining industry in order to decarbonize its operations.

Solvay’s Kalix 10000 series is the latest addition to the firm’s sustainable polymer portfolio. A partially bio-based material produced from renewable feedstock and developed with 100% renewable electricity, the new material offers increased heat resistance, stain resistance, and the lowest moisture absorption which makes them suitable for smart devices.

Hydrogen technology company H2Site has raised 12.5 million euros in a Series A funding round led by Breakthrough Energy Ventures (BEV). The funding is to accelerate the scale up of the company’s integrated membrane reactor and membrane separation technologies.