Under an alliance agreement signed between KBR and Petron Scientech Inc. (PSI), KBR will be the exclusive licensor for PSI’s Ethylene Oxide / Ethylene Glycol, Alcohol Dehydration and Maleic Anhydride technologies, which are used to convert ethanol into ethylene.

Kebotix’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) capabilities will aim to improve Johnson Matthey’s (JM) digital transformation in the chemical industry and combined they intend to discover innovative methods to increase the efficiency of experiments leading to the optimization of catalytic converter coating formulations.

In the background of growing demand, Lanxess will expand its production capacity for light-color sulfur carriers at its Mannheim site in Germany. The additional capacity is expected to strengthen the firm’s market position in extreme pressure additives for the lubricants industry.

EW Höfe, Alpiq and Socar Energy Switzerland have plans to build an electrolysis facility with a capacity of up to 10 MW in Freienbach, Switzerland. If approved, the facility is expected to produce around 1000 to 1200 tons of green hydrogen, thus making the project the country’s largest production facility for green hydrogen.

The Dow Chemical Company and Davy Process Technology announced the launch of Compress PTA, a streamlined technology for the production of PTA

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Stamicarbon has signed a license agreement with Tierra del Fuego Energia Y Quimica, which concerns a urea synthesis plant and a urea granulation plant to be built in southern Argentina.

Gevo’s NW Iowa RNG (renewable natural gas) project is under construction and is expected to produce 355,000 MMBtu of RNG per year. Under the agreement with BP, the renewable natural gas will be sold into the California market in the US.

Borouge confirmed that its expanded plant in Abu Dhabi is starting up as planned.

The fund will mainly focus on projects that fall under BP’s Upstream business. The company aims to achieve 3.5 million tonnes of sustainable GHG emissions reductions across its Group by 2025 and also meet a methane intensity target of 0.2 %.