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Capable of producing 1.5 million tonnes of ethylene per year, the complex will include the first mixed-feed cracker in the Gulf region to be integrated with a refinery.

Euro Chem will be making use of Trammo’s dry and liquid fertilizer transport and storage assets to expand its fertilizer storage capacity in the United States. Euro Chem possesses a current storage capacity of about 500,000 metric tonnes in the US.

European Chemical Industry Council’s (Cefic) latest data has revealed that the industry will recover in 2021 and 2022 however, long-term economic outlook still remains uncertain due to the global pandemic of Covid-19.

The licensed technologies include polypropylene, high-density polyethylene and low-density polyethylene for the five new plants. With a capacity of almost 2 million tonnes, this is the largest volume of new capacity ever licensed by Lyondell Basell.

Continuous emission monitoring by gas sampling probe — The saying “Every beginning is difficult” means a lot also in the field of Gas sampling probes and probe conditioning: if there is a problem in the direct connection to the process that is to be measured, the entire process analytics will cause problems, either in the calibration of the measured results or during the operation phase.

Maag will be exhibiting examples of its broad-ranging portfolio of extrusion-related systems on stand 6202 in hall A6 at Fakuma 2018 in Friedrichshafen, Germany, between October 16 and 20.

Steriline has recently delivered its first filling line to a CDMO for the production of Covid-19 vaccines. The Italian company is also working on another filling line which will soon be delivered to Sweden. Indian companies have also shown interest in two of the company’s complete lines which are expected to produce 18,000 vaccines per hour.

Primus Green Energy announced plans to develop and deliver a 160 metric tonnes per day methanol plant to an operating site in Alberta, Canada.