Petrofac has been selected as Owner’s Engineer for Transitional Energy Group’s Gente Grande Green Ammonia Project in Chile. The project is expected to produce more than 1.3 million tonnes of green ammonia every year.

In response to increasingly stringent regulations for the production of injectable drugs, Ima Life has been pioneering a solution whose technologies hinge on the integrated use of advanced robotics. Both European and North American guidelines, respectively the cGMP Annex 1 and FDA guidelines, are demanding closer attention with regard to eliminating the risk of contamination. The development of Injecta, Ima Life’s fill-finish processing solution for RTU components, which handles injectables in aseptic conditions under isolator, owes a significant part of its ongoing success to the excellent partnership built between Ima Life engineering team and Kawasaki Robotics experts.

Oxychem has selected thyssenkrupp nucera to install the next generation ebitac v7 electrolyzers at its large-scale chlor-alkali electrolysis plant in LaPorte, Texas, USA. The firm aims to convert the facility to the membrane chlor-alkali technology from the existing diaphragm cell technology.

A research team from the Otto Diels Institute of Organic Chemistry at Kiel University has developed a special palladium catalyst that can for the first time selectively activate carbon-hydrogen bonds.

Hydrogen technology company H2Site has raised 12.5 million euros in a Series A funding round led by Breakthrough Energy Ventures (BEV). The funding is to accelerate the scale up of the company’s integrated membrane reactor and membrane separation technologies.

The chemical company Yara along with Northern Lights, a joint venture firm of Shell, Equinor and Total Energies have entered into an agreement to transport CO2 captured from Yara Sluiskil, an ammonia and fertilizer plant in the Netherlands, and permanently store it under the seabed off the coast of Norway.

Nel Hydrogen Electrolyser has secured an alkaline electrolyzer equipment contract from Woodside Energy for its H2ok hydrogen project which will be set up in Ardmore, Oklahoma, US. Woodside’s project will produce liquid hydrogen for hydrogen fuel cell-powered commercial and heavy transport vehicles.

Coating is nowadays an integral part of pharmaceutical tablet and pellet production. Nevertheless, there are some problem areas that have not been adequately solved so far, some of which are nearly accepted, although they have an impact on almost every coating process and entail economic losses. To a certain extent, this is due to a presumed lack of possible solutions - but they do exist and are promising. In particular, a new generation of tablet coaters is addressing these challenges in an innovative way.

Arcelor Mittal recently held a breaking ground ceremony for its mega decarbonization project at the Arcelor Mittal Dofasco plant in Hamilton, Canada. The sustainable project is expected to lower carbon emissions at the steel production plant by 3 million tonnes.

A Saipem and Clough joint venture has entered into an agreement with Perdaman Industries for developing a urea plant in Western Australia. With an expected capacity of producing 2.14 million tons of urea annually, the plant will make use of Saipem’s Snamprogetti Urea technology.