Solvay has secured 100 % ownership in its rare earths joint venture firm by acquiring the remaining shares from Santoku Corporation. The move is expected to strengthen the company’s global ambitions of leveraging its industrial and technical capabilities in Rare Earths chemistry for mobility, connectivity and electrification.

Under a MOU signed between Keppel Infrastructure and Exxonmobil Asia Pacific, both the firms will work together to explore low-carbon hydrogen and ammonia solutions in Singapore. The move has been carried out in the background of the Singapore Government’s launch of the National Hydrogen Strategy which expects hydrogen to meet up to half of Singapore’s power needs by 2050.

Eni and Saipem have plans to develop new biorefineries in order to support the transformation of its traditional and existing refineries. Under the terms of the contract, Eni's technology will be used for both the development of new biorefineries and the conversion of traditional refineries.

Lummus Technology and Citroniq Chemicals have entered into licensing and engineering agreements for the development of green polypropylene plants in the U.S. The first unit is expected to produce 400kta of bio-polypropylene.

Messer has selected Sulzer’s mass transfer technologies to assist an innovative carbon capture and utilization process at its Landeck plant in Austria. The unit will make use of Sulzer Chemtech’s carbon capture technology to capture more than 50,000 tons of CO2 per year.

Chevron Lummus Global has started up an Isoterra unit at Chevron’s El Segundo Refinery in Southern California, USA. The unit makes use of the refinery's existing assets as well as the company’s proprietary catalyst and reactor internals technology to achieve exceptional diesel yields.

The American Chemistry Council has shared that the Global CPRI trended higher by 0.6 % in September, following a revised 0.6 % gain in August while the U.S. CPRI was flat in September, following a 0.8 % gain in August.

Vynova Group has plans to develop a new plant complex for the production of sodium and potassium alcoholates at its Lülsdorf site in Germany. For this, the company intends to invest a high double-digit million-euro amount.

Gerresheimer recently held a groundbreaking ceremony for the expansion of its plant in Querétaro, Mexico. The new production building will increase the firm’s manufacturing capacity for syringes for the North American market by several hundred million ‘ready-to-fill’ syringes every year.

Thyssenkrupp Uhde will provide engineering and procurement services as well as its uhde ammonia technology license and proprietary equipment for the development of Proman’s 2200 metric tons/day ammonia plant in Topolobampo, Sinaloa, Mexico.