Covenant Energy has chosen Haldor Topsoe’s Hydroflex and H2bridge technologies for its renewable diesel facility in Canada. With the help of the technologies, Covenant Energy aims to produce the cleanest renewable diesel across the globe.

Air Liquide, one of the world's biggest air separation companies, has lined up an investment of about US $2 billion to ramp up production in India over the next 10 years. The investment would be pumped in through the company's Indian subsidiary, Air Liquide India located in Delhi.

Namur (The User Association of Automation Technology in Process Industries) has recently released the NE176 Namur Open Architecture NOA Information Model. The aim of the NOA concept is to enable new Monitoring and Optimization services and applications that create additional value for the production plant.

Some valve makers fear emerging markets, others place their bets on them. Competition from companies from threshold countries is growing rapidly, yet at the same time demand for machinery and plants from industrialized Western countries is high in order to maintain the upswing. One thing is certain—success has pampered emerging markets in the past years, even when other states were slightly weakened.

Kemira has invested 83 million dollars for installing emulsion polymers and bio acrylamide monomer production units at its manufacturing site in Alabama, USA. The installation of the units has been completed and production has also commenced.

In the age of digitization Chemical Distribution is facing new challenge. International trading platform like Alibaba and Amazon Business are changing the rules. Now, the German start up Pinpools has created an independent B2B platform to connect chemical business.

Shaw divests its problem child: The US engineering company announced to sell its energy and chemical (E&C) division to French Technip for US $ 300 million. The company's CEO Jim Bernhard believes that the selling of this long time problematic business, that only moved back into profit this year, would help Shaw to focus on its core industries.

Beumer Group will exhibit its expertise as a system provider for complete high-capacity packaging lines at Powtech. The Group optimises the performance of each machine, its components and the high-level controls to ensure high throughput of the lines for (petro) chemical products and building materials.

There is currently a lot of interest in renewable and green chemistry, bio-based chemistry, CO2 Capture and Utilisation and chemical recycling. Refineries and verbund sites of large-scale chemicals are under considerable pressure; the biofuel industry is looking for new markets in chemistry and start-ups are looking for investors.

Mitsubishi Chemical has signed a license agreement with Mura Technology for a chemical recycling process called HydroPRS. The process is used for manufacturing raw materials from plastic wastes for chemical products.