Evonik has plans to expand its production capacity of Metamino (DL-methionine) on Jurong Island, Singapore, by 40,000 metric tons to around 340,000 metric tons annually. For this, the project will require technological development which will help in process optimization, thus, improving the carbon footprint of Metamino produced in Singapore by six percent.

Power-to-X is on everyone’s lips: as energy storage, alternatives to battery-electric mobility or basic raw materials for industrial processes, the conversion of green electricity into material form is a cornerstone of all defossilization strategies. But how realistic is the vision of fuel from the socket? A test plant in Lower Bavaria, Germany, shows that the necessary technologies have long been in the starting blocks.

GS Caltex has chosen KBR’s plastics recycling technology for its 50 kTA unit which aims to convert waste plastics into raw materials for developing new plastics. With this project, the company aims to establish a greener facility in South Korea.

Kemira has recently joined the Renewable Carbon Initiative which focuses on speeding up the transition from fossil carbon to renewable carbon for all organic chemicals and materials. By associating with the initiative, Kemira aims at advancing innovative sustainability practices with a focus on promoting circularity and a bio-based economy.

In the past, “more is better” often applied to process optimization – companies sometimes invested considerable effort to keep all processes in the optimal range and suppress every disturbance. But not all anomalies in processes are equally relevant to the profitability of a plant. With artificial intelligence (AI) methods, events can now be directly evaluated for their business relevance, thus opening up new possibilities for companies in the economic optimization of processes.

Under a MOU signed between both the parties, Proman and Mitsubishi Corporation have plans to explore the development of a world-scale ultra-low carbon ammonia facility in Lake Charles, USA. The unit is expected to produce 1.2 million tonnes per year of clean ammonia.

The time-to-market has always been a concern for the pharmaceutical industry. But the development of a vaccine against covid-19 in just a few months and making it available within a year has left one speechless: How was/is that possible? What has the industry learned from this for the future? What can be adapted and what cannot? Insights from a web conference organized and hosted by PROCESS.

Fieldcomm Group has recently announced the availability of test and registration services for Ethernet-APL infrastructure products. In this background, Pepperl+Fuchs’ Rail Field Switches are the first Ethernet-APL products to achieve registration.

Vortab flow conditioners are capable of creating a swirl-free, symmetrical, and repeatable velocity flow of fluids in just a few pipe diameters to protect the overall process equipment as well as instruments and keep them running efficiently.

Akzonobel has successfully completed the acquisition of Sherwin-Williams’ Chinese Decorative Paints business. With this move, the company aims to further strengthen its presence in China.