Machine engineering company Bühler is investing a double-digit million Dollar amount in a new Grain Innovation Center (GIC) at its site in Uzwil, Switzerland. The GIC will replace the old technology center, which was built in the 1950s and no longer fulfils the requirements of a state-of-the art innovation hub.

Stamicarbon has secured its second license and process design package contract to design a 4000 MTPD melt and granulation plant in Sub-Saharan Africa for the same customer. Both the plants will be located inside a world-scale integrated ammonia and urea complex which is expected to have a capacity of 4,600 MTPD of ammonia and 8,000 MTPD of urea in two production trains.

Qatar Energy and Chevron Phillips Chemical Company have recently undertaken a Final Investment Decision to develop a world-scale integrated polymers facility – the Golden Triangle Polymers Plant in the USA. The 8.5-billion-dollar project will include an ethylene cracker unit and two high-density polyethylene units.

The billion dollar expansion plan of HPCL’s refinery in Vizag, India has been delayed to November owing to labour shortage in the background of Covid-19 and the beginning of the monsoon season.

Technip Energies has secured a contract by Aramco to upgrade sulfur recovery facilities at its Riyadh Refinery in Saudi Arabia. Three new tail gas treatment units will be implemented for the project which will help to improve the performance of the existing sulfur recovery units.

Toyo Engineering has been awarded a construction contract along with an engineering, procurement support and construction management services contract for developing separation and purification agent manufacturing facilities in Japan as well as acrylic acid and ethylene plants at BASF’s Zhanjiang Verbund Project in China respectively.

The green ammonia project will be built in Oman and is expected to have a capacity of 1.2 million tonnes annually. The produced green ammonia will then be transported to Korea.

Tianjin, China's fourth largest city relies more and more on the petrochemical industry for its economic development. The city government and Sinopec, China's largest state-owned chemical company have signed a new framework agreement according to which an additional 70 billion yuan (around 10.3 billion dollars) will be invested in key projects in Tianjin.

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Fintoil has partnered with Emerson and Neste Engineering Solutions to optimize operations at its under construction biorefinery in Finland. Automation software and advanced digital technologies will be installed at the plant which is expected to produce advanced biofuel and biochemical feedstocks that will assist in reducing emissions.