Aucotec has recently celebrated its 40th anniversary as a leading international provider of engineering software. The firm’s Engineering Base cooperation platform links all disciplines in plant engineering.

K 2025 from 8 to 15 October in Düsseldorf has set itself the goal of addressing the central issues of our times. One of its three Hot Topics reads “Shaping the Circular Economy”. Reason enough to shed some light on the current state of affairs in terms of circularity six months ahead of the world-leading trade fair of the plastics and rubber industry.

Evonik has recently launched its new world-scale alkoxides production facility in Singapore. With this project, the company intends to strengthen its ability to meet rising demand for alkoxides across Asia.

Clariant Oil Services and Swire Energy Services have launched a new bulk storage and transfer base in Dusavik, Norway. With this project, both the companies aim to support the European energy production.

Under an agreement signed between Versalis and Veritas, both the companies will work together to boost advanced plastic recycling. The two companies will analyze and select waste streams and secondary raw materials from Veritas’s facilities for Versalis’ recycling processes.

Thyssenkrupp Uhde’s Envinox technology has been delivered to Covestro’s Baytown site in Texas, USA. The technology is expected to play a vital role in Covestro’s Nitric Acid Unit Climate Initiative which will equate to an annual abatement of approximately 154,000 metric tons of CO2e.

The Metsä Group in partnership with Andritz has started up a carbon capture pilot plant at Metsä’s Rauma mill to test the capture of pulp mill flue gases. The company is also exploring the idea of setting up a larger-scale demo plant for carbon capture at the site.

Conocophillips’ Optimized Cascade Process liquefaction technology has been selected by Monkey Island LNG for its 26 MTPA natural gas liquefaction and export facility in Cameron Parish, Louisiana.

Air Products has recently announced that its new air separation facility in Cleveland, Ohio is onstream and has also started supplying to its customers. The company is also reinvesting at the same location to extend the life of an existing air separation unit and liquefier plant.

Technip FMC has won two subsea contracts from Petrobras for flexible pipe for use in multiple basins. The first award is a substantial contract to design, engineer, and manufacture flexible gas injection risers while the second is a significant contract to design, engineer, and manufacture flexible risers and flowlines for deployment on assets in the Campos Basin.