Pfeiffer Vacuum Components & Solutions is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year. With one of the largest storage facilities in Europe for vacuum components, the company caters to domestic as well as global clients.

Achema back as a live event for the first time since it was postponed— After some back and forth, the leading trade fair for the process industry opens its doors in August. Despite great anticipation for the upcoming meeting, expectations are mixed. Achema between the Ukraine war and the fading pandemic.

Under a definitive purchase agreement, Occidental has plans to acquire Carbon Engineering for 1.1 billion dollars. The move is expected to improve costs as well as capital efficiencies for the firm and also catalyze broader development partnerships for DAC deployment.

Hydrogen company HyCC has launched Project H2era to construct a 500-megawatt green hydrogen plant in the Amsterdam port area. The project, launched in cooperation with the Port of Amsterdam, is a major step forward in the development of the regional hydrogen economy to help decarbonize industry and mobility.

Since 2011, Indorama Ventures has recycled 100 billion PET bottles, a major feat for the company. The initiative has diverted 2.1 million tons of waste from the environment and saved 2.9 million tons of carbon footprint from product lifecycles.

Cepsa will be investing a hefty amount of 3-billion-euros to establish the largest green hydrogen hub in Europe. In addition to this, the firm will invest another 2-billion-euros to develop a 3 GW portfolio of wind and solar energy projects in order to generate renewable electricity for the project.

On its path to becoming a climate-neutral company, OQ Chemicals is switching to electricity from renewable sources at its sites worldwide as part of its ‘reduce’ program.

Chevron Lummus’ EST technology has been selected by Shandong Yulong Petrochemical for a slurry residue hydrocracking unit in Shandong Province, China. Expected to be the largest slurry hydrocracking unit across the globe, it will have a capacity of 3.0 MMTA and produce naptha, diesel and vacuum gas oil.

What do operators of the technology-focused process industry expect from a pump manufacturer? Well, they certainly expect in-depth application knowledge relating to all aspects of central production processes. Industry-specific know-how is and always has been an important driving force behind innovation at Grundfos. Today, other topics like resource efficiency and sustainability are gaining hugely in importance.

Indian Oil has plans to set up the Paradip Petrochemical Complex at Paradip, Odisha in India by investing 7.4 billion dollars, thus, making it the largest-ever investment by the oil major at a single location.