The German chemical industry recorded a strong final quarter with sector sales up 8.1 % overall. The German Chemical Industry Association (VCI) expects chemical production to grow by 3 % for 2021.

Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) has selected Phillips 66’s E-Gas Technology for its planned gasification plants at Jamnagar. Reliance's Jamnagar site is the largest refining complex in the world, with an aggregate refining capacity of 1.3 million barrels of oil per day.

The new green ammonia facility will make use of Haldor Topsoe’s proprietary solid oxide electrolyzer cells (SOEC) to produce green hydrogen from 100 MWs of renewable electricity. The project is expected to be operational by 2024.

Stora Enso has increased its ownership up to 100 % in the Sweden-based company Cellutech AB. The company specialises in the development of new materials and applications based on cellulose, micro-fibrillated cellulose (MFC) and other wood-based components.

The Arab Petroleum Investments Corporation (Apicorp), a multilateral development bank, has announced signing a financial structuring mandate with Suez Company for Methanol Derivatives to finance the development of a formaldehyde and derivatives project in Damietta, Egypt.

Solvay is set to increase the company’s fluoroelastomer (FKM) production to support global customers’ continuing strong demand for high performance sealing applications.

Nuberg EPC is a global EPC company with two decades of experience in delivering single point responsibility solutions and services for industrial plants. A case study showcasing the firm’s successful projects have been elaborated in the article.

Activated carbon witnesses a downright boom: Global demand is expected to increase more than 10 percent per year through 2016 to 1.9 million metric tons, a new study says. Main driver behind this growth are regulatory changes in the US, market analysts Freedonia believes.

Brent Kedzierski, Head of Learning Strategy and Innovation at Shell and Ian Willetts, Vice President for Process & Simulation, Aveva share their perspectives on how more personalized solutions will enable workers to take charge of their work thus resulting in enhanced performance.

Bürkert is expanding its portfolio of mass flow meters (MFMs) and mass flow controllers (MFCs), Types 8742 and 8746, for gases to include variants with a standard signal and Profibus-DP interface.