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.

Sandoz has launched a new antibiotic production plant in Austria along with a biosimilar development center in Germany. The units are in line with the firm’s aim to strengthen sustainable development and supply of critical medicines in Europe and other regions of the world.

Maire Tecnimont’s subsidiary Nextchem has entered into an agreement with Biorenova to acquire, scale up and industrialize the proprietary Catc technology which is a continuous chemical recycling process to recover ultra-high purity monomers from sorted plastic waste especially polymethylmethacrylate.

Jindan has entered into an agreement with Sulzer under which the company will utilize Sulzer’s licensed PLA technology at its new manufacturing plant to produce up to 75’000 tonnes of polylactic acid annually.

With an investment of 40 million dollars, Polystyvert has plans to develop its first full-scale commercial polystyrene recycling plant in Greater Montreal, Canada. The project is expected to recycle 9,000 tons of post-consumer and post-industrial polystyrene waste every year.

Sika has inaugurated a new plant for liquid membranes and mortar production in China to strengthen and expand its presence in the region as well as to meet the growing demand for high-quality, sustainable products from the construction industry.

With the aim of consistently positioning itself for the future, the specialist for automation solutions has founded a new company, AZO Global Product Center GmbH & Co. KG on 1 January 2023.

The new demonstration unit will make use of Technip Energies' electric steam cracking furnacetechnology (efurnace by T.EN) which will help companies to use renewable electricity as a heat source for the olefins cracking process in the future. This move is expected to significantly reduce greenhouse gas footprint of the olefins production process.

Industrial plants have to be monitored closely as they are extremely dangerous since it deals with highly flammable liquids and gases. This is why there is always a pressing need for more advanced and developed explosion-proof solutions which can help plant operators to carry out numerous tasks such as monitoring and collecting data safely all in real-time without being a source of ignition in hazardous zones. PROCESS Worldwide offers an insight into three such explosion proof solutions—mobile robots, drones and mixed reality glasses—for industrial units.

Following the standardisation of SPE connectors, first sensor components with the two-wire Ethernet are coming onto the market: the sensor specialists Jumo, for example, are relying on SPE to combine consistent Ethernet communication with simple and inexpensive installation.