Technip Energies has been awarded a bankable feasibility study contract by Viridian Lithium to develop the first lithium refining and conversion plant in Europe. The France-based plant is expected to produce up to 100,000 tons of battery grade lithium chemicals annually which will establish a secure battery supply chain for the region’s electric vehicle industry.

Evonik has sold its Lülsdorf site along with its associated cyanuric chloride business in Wesseling, Germany to the International Chemical Investors Group. With this move, the Group has also acquired all the production units at the site.

PROCESS Worldwide brings to you the ‘Top 10 plant engineering projects of September 2022’ from all over the world. Right from the world’s first demo plant for electrically heated steam cracker furnaces taking off to Dow and Mura developing Europe’s largest advanced recycling plant in Germany, find out all the projects making headlines here.

Rico Sicherheitstechnik will be exhibiting its Redisc pressure relief valve and gas-tight butterfly valves at a trade fair for powder & bulk solids processing and analytics in Germany. The latest product addition to the firm’s portfolio is the pressure relief valve which is used in isolators to ensure pressure equalization in the event of increased overpressure.

Dow and Mura Technology have plans to build Europe’s largest advanced recycling plant for plastics at Dow's Böhlen site in Germany. The project is expected to deliver approximately 120 KTA of advanced recycling capacity. This is one of the many series of plants that are being planned to be built across the U.S. and Europe.

Chevron has plans to acquire Hess Corporation in order to upgrade and diversify its portfolio. The deal will also give Chevron access to the Stabroek block in Guyana as well as Hess’ Bakken assets.

Evonik has started-up a new production plant for gas separation membranes in Austria. With a hefty investment of double-digit million-euros, the plant aims to meet the firm’s goal of increasing its sustainable Next Generation Solutions.

With a capacity of 60,000 metric tons of engineering plastics compounds annually, the plant is the first unit to be inaugurated at the new Verbund site Zhanjiang which is expected to be the firm’s third largest Verbund site globally.

Global Amines’ new fatty amines production plant is now on stream. Located in Singapore, the plant will supply fatty amines to the company’s customers across the globe in the background of its high demand.

Namur – the User Association of Automation Technology in Process Industries has recently published the NA188 ‘PCT Construction Management’.