Amidst growing demand, Neste has plans to expand its renewable products refinery in Rotterdam in the Netherlands. With this move, the company will expand its overall renewable product capacity by 1.3 million tons annually, thus, leading to the firm’s total renewable product capacity in Rotterdam to 2.7 million tons per annum.

Kuraray has completed the development of a new plant for isoprene-related businesses in Thailand and the unit is expected to commence operations soon. Kuraray GC Advanced Materials Co. and Kuraray Advanced Chemicals (Thailand) Co. were responsible for the construction of the project.

Shanghai Chemical Industry Park Industrial Gases, a subsidiary of Air Liquide, will invest more than 204 million dollars to build two hydrogen production units and related infrastructure in Shanghai Chemical Industry Park.

Shell has plans to acquire Nature Energy, a Denmark-based producer of renewable natural gas. On completion of this deal, Shell will acquire Europe’s largest RNG producer, its portfolio of cash generative operating plants, associated feedstock supply and infrastructure, its pipeline of growth projects and its in-house RNG plant technology.

The consortium has been selected by Calpine for a Feed contract in order to develop a carbon capture unit project in Baytown, Texas, USA. The project is expected to capture two million tons per annum of CO2.

With the upgrade, Neste will be able to process 150,000 tons of liquefied waste plastic at its Porvoo refinery in Finland. The project is expected to be finalized in the first half of 2025.

Fujian Eversun has selected Lummus Technology’s Catofin technology for a new 900 KTA propane dehydrogenation unit as well as the firm’s Novolen technology for a new 800 KTA polypropylene unit at its complex in Fujian Province, China.

The shipment from the UAE to Germany marks the first ever demonstration cargo of low-carbon ammonia between both the countries. Germany’s Aurubis, a leading global provider of non-ferrous metals will use the low-carbon ammonia as a feedstock in its wire rod plant in order to meet its decarbonization goals.

The Marchesini Group has taken over M.A.R., a Milan-based company specialized in the construction of machinery for packaging liquids and powders in glass and plastic bottles, syringes, carpules and other containers for the pharmaceutical industry.

Schubert has introduced the tog.519 cobot which was exhibited for the first time at the recently held Interpack show. The cobot is capable of automating pick & place tasks in the infeed as well as offers great flexibility to the production and packaging process.