Cheap gas spawns fertilizer projects: BASF and Yara plan to build a joint world-scale ammonia plant on the US Gulf Coast. Plans include a 750,000 tons-per-year hydrogen-synthesis plant at BASF's Freeport site in Texas.

PT Synthetic Rubber Indonesia (SRI), the first synthetic rubber factory that produces Polybutadiene Rubber and Solution Styrene Butadiene Rubber in Indonesia, has been officially inaugurated.

Ashland recently completed an expansion for Natrosol Hydroxyethylcellulose (HEC) Production in Nanjing, China, increasing the company’s manufacturing output at the site by nearly 30 %.

Thyssenkrupp has signed a contract with CF Industries to deliver the mega plant in order to produce green ammonia at the Donaldsonville manufacturing complex in Louisiana, USA. The project is expected to decarbonize the world’s largest ammonia production plant.

GE Power, a division of GE, has completed the acquisition of the Heat Recovery Steam Generator (HRSG) business of Doosan Engineering & Construction for $ 250 million.

Kemira has formed a joint venture called Kemira TC Wanfeng Chemicals Yanzhou (New Co) with TC Wanfeng. The JV is to strengthen the company's position as a global supplier for the pulp & paper industry. The newly formed company will mainly produce AKD wax (Alkyl Ketene Dimers) and its key raw material fatty acid chloride (FACL).

Scientists from Exxon Mobil and the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a new technology that could significantly reduce the amount of energy and emissions associated with manufacturing plastics. Results of the research were published in the peer-reviewed journal Science.

The Namur Open Architecture (NOA) aims to make production and plant data easily and securely usable for plant and equipment monitoring and optimization.

An explosion near a large chemical plant in northern China claimed 22 lives and leaves at least as many injured. According to the news agency "The Paper", the detonation occurred next to a loading ramp operated by the plant. 38 trucks and twelve cars exploded.

Sasol will be joining Linde, Enertrag and Navitas to explore the potential of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), an initiative supported by the German Government’s H2 Global auction platform. Together with its partners, Sasol plans to carry out feasibility studies regarding the production of SAF at its Secunda Synfuels plant in South Africa.