Linde and DCRC are expected to invest more than 100 million dollars for the construction of the new plant along with supporting infrastructure for the project. On completion, the new plant will have a capacity of processing 25 million standard cubic feet per day.

With H.C. Shin’s appointment, the firm has selected a professional from outside the company for the maiden time. Shin earlier held the post of Vice Chair and Executive Vice President of 3M.

Clariant announced the expansion of the capacity of its ethylene oxide (EO) unit in Gendorf, Germany. EO-based specialties support a wide range of industries, such as personal and home care, crop solutions, and industrial applications.

Under the strategic supply chain partnership, the MOL Group and PRS will work together to deliver packaged polyethylene and polypropylene created from reusable pallets at MOL’s sites in Tiszaújváros, Hungary and Slovnaft in Slovakia. With this move, the Group aims to become a vital player in the circular economy in Central and Eastern Europe.

GEA has supplied its new separator technology to Ukrainian pharmaceutical company Biopharma. The equipment will be installed at Biopharma’s new plant in Bila Tserkva, Ukraine and will help the firm to become one of the leaders offering high-tech plasma processors across the globe.

Under a license agreement signed between KBR and JS Energy, KBR will license its proprietary K-Pro propane dehydrogenation technology to JS Energy’s propane dehydrogenation project in Pakistan.

Fuel additives such as isooctane have so far been produced from mineral oil. Commissioned by the French-German company Global Bioenergies, the Fraunhofer Center for Chemical-Biotechnological Processes CBP in Leuna will soon be producing biobased additives for gasoline. The source is bio-isobutene, which is obtained biotechnically from sugar.

With the rising demand for ammonia, methanol, and DME grassroots plants in Indonesia, the firm aims to offer cutting edge technology, catalysts and solutions for the region’s petrochemical and fertiliser industry.

South Refineries Company’s Basrah refinery upgrading project in Iraq will make use of various technologies from Axens in order to increase its gasoline and diesel production. The move is expected to reduce imports of petroleum products in the country.

CO2 to chemicals: What potential has the utilisation of carbon dioxide for chemicals production? — CO2 has a bad image. But can the undesired exhaust gas also be used as a raw material? Not an easy task, yet researchers from all over the world are working hard on turning the climate killer as a raw material. And those, who believe this will remain a thought game played in ivory towers or think that these minor experiments will remain confined to the cellar laboratory are making a big mistake: The first production scale plant is already on-stream....