Akzo Nobel has announced plans to use 100 % renewable energy and become carbon neutral by 2050.

An innovative twist was added to Inbicon’s second generation ethanol production, helping create a revolutionary new process, which will be licensed worldwide. Many Indian companies may opt to benefit from this new and useful technology.

Process engineers at oil & gas refineries will find that the rugged ST100 Thermal Mass Flow Meter Series from Fluid Components International (FCI) provides highly accurate, dependable measurement of air and fuel gases to optimise the performance of the boilers utilised by sulfur recovery units (SRUs).

With an aim to meet the growing demand of performance chemical products in China, Exxon Mobil has decided to go ahead and build a multi-billion-dollar chemical complex in the Dayawan Petrochemical Industrial Park in Huizhou, Guangdong Province in China. The complex which is expected to produce performance polymers includes a flexible feed steam cracker, three performance polyethylene lines, and two differentiated performance polypropylene lines.

Borealis and Nova Chemicals Corporation signed a preliminary agreement to form a joint venture with Total Petrochemicals and Refining USA that will develop and own a new light feed cracker and a new Borstar polyethylene facility in Bayport, Texas.

Materials manufacturer Covestro has resolved to continue manufacturing the rigid foam precursor MDI in Tarragona (Spain). The plant closure that had originally been planned for the end of 2017 has been suspended for the time being.

Lets face a simple fact: Paint sludge is a hazardous waste that poses serious risk for both health and environment – yet they often an not be avoided in the process industry. Now, after four years of research, Indian experts were to convert paint sludge into industrial primers, that conform to every specification of the user industry...

Following a construction period of just two years, a joint venture between Evonik and the Dutch company DSM has commissioned its globally unique production plant in the US. Through the fermentative manufacture of natural marine algae, the new plant produces a special algal oil that contains the key omega-3 fatty acids needed for healthy salmon farming.

In conjunction with its previously announced technology license agreement with Daelim Industrial, Lubrizol has begun construction of a new polyisobutylene (PIB) unit at its Deer Park, Texas facility.

On November 13, a fire broke out at a fuel storage tank at Pertamina’s Cilacap refinery complex in Central Java, Indonesia, however it was successfully extinguished. The cause of the fire is yet to be ascertained.