Ineos Styrolution along with its joint venture partner Sinopec have launched a mega ABS facility in Ningbo, China. With an annual capacity of 600,000 tonnes, the unit is expected to strengthen Ineos Styrolution’ position in the Chinese ABS market.

With a hefty investment of 2.5-billion dollars, a new high-tech manufacturing site will be built by Eli Lilly and Company in Alzey, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. With this, the company aims to diversify its growing presence in Europe.

Eastman Chemical Company has sold its Texas City Operations to Ineos Acetyls for 490 million dollars but will retain ownership of its plasticizer business at the site. Eastman will also continue to manufacture acetyls at its Tennessee Operations in Kingsport.

Construction of two carbon capture units by Ørsted has begun in Denmark. The project is expected to capture and store carbon emissions from the woodchip-fired Asnæs Power Station in Kalundborg and the straw-fired unit at Avedøre Power Station in Greater Copenhagen.

Hydrogen is the solution to all promises of defossilization – but handling the light gas is surprisingly difficult due to its low density. It would be easier to store the substance in a liquid, as promised by so-called Liquid Organic Hydrogen Carriers (LOHCs)...

Thyssenkrupp Uhde has won a basic engineering package and front-end engineering design package from Gulf Biopolymers Industries for the first large biopolymer plant in the Mena region. The plant is expected to produce polylactic acid polymer in large-scale volumes.

Technip Energies and John Cockerill have created a new firm called Rely which is dedicated to offering integrated green hydrogen and power-to-x solutions. The move has been undertaken in the background of growing demand for solutions in order to decarbonize hard-to-abate industries.

Lanxess will supply brine to Standard Lithium for industrial production of battery-grade lithium at its site in El Dorado, Arkansas, USA. Lanxess also aims at leasing a plot of land to Standard Lithium for the development of a production facility.

As digitalisation continues to advance, the demands on process instruments are increasing and everyone today is talking about condition monitoring. Continuous self-monitoring of electrical thermometers tends to be restricted, however, because sensor drift remains unnoticed until the next calibration date. This problem has now been solved.

In collaboration with Nobian and Logisteed Europe, Asahi Kasei is initiating a demonstration trial for a chlor-alkali electrolysis cell rental service in Europe. This innovative approach aims to address the rising costs and environmental impact of precious metals used in electrolysis cells.