Lanxess has plans to acquire International Flavors & Fragrances’ (IFF) microbial control business. With this move, the company aims to become one of the largest suppliers of microbial control products in the world and also strengthen its speciality chemicals portfolio.

BASF is constructing a new pilot plant center at its Ludwigshafen site in Germany which will act as a global hub for pilot-scale production and process innovations of chemical catalysts. The new center will help the company to strengthen its global catalyst development.

The Italian firm Doseuro offers pumps and systems for dosing chemical, acid or basic liquid products. The company recently launched the Just Switch On panel, a new pre-engineered system designed to provide a complete dosing solution.

Fluor was awarded a front-end engineering, design and optimization (FEED) contract by Danakali Limited in Eritrea for the Colluli Potash Project .

PROCESS Worldwide brings to you the ‘Top 10 plant engineering projects of August 2021’ from all over the world. Right from building a world scale petrochemical complex in Indonesia to converting a refinery services facility into the first carbon-neutral (blue) hydrogen production facility in the USA, find out all the projects making headlines here.

The American Chemistry Council has reported that its Chemical Activity Barometer, a leading economic indicator, fell 0.5 % in August on a three-month moving average basis following gains in the months of May, June and July.

Man Energy is responsible for supplying generation technology for two power plants in Bangladesh. The plants are expected to comprise numerous Man engines and feed 170 megawatts into the national grid.

Dow Dupont has added three more members to the future board of directors of Dupont. The newly appointed directors are Frank K. Clyburn, chief commercial officer at Merck & Co., Terrence R. Curtin, CEO of TE Connectivity, and Frederick M. Lowery, senior vice president and president, Life Sciences Solutions and Laboratory Products at Thermo Fisher Scientific.

The Exxon Mobil Renewable Diesel process technology (EMRD) is capable of converting bio-feedstocks into renewable diesel. The two-stage process controls hydrotreating and dewaxing separately.

Arbor Gas has selected Topsoe’s Tigas technology for producing renewable gasoline at a new facility in the Gulf Coast region (USA). The facility is expected to produce 1,000 barrels per day of renewable gasoline and will be operational by 2024.