With the growing construction market in Bolivia, Sika has inaugurated a new and highly automated plant which aims to double its mortar and concrete admixtures production capacity in the country.

Reverion’s unique all-in-one solution is claimed to be the first system to simultaneously substitute fossil fuels, produce green gases and enable large-scale carbon capture. With this partnership, the firms aim to bring Reverion's innovative technology to the market and to expand it on an industrial scale.

Dupont has recently inaugurated its new production site in Newark, Delaware, USA. The site manufactures elastomers and is expected to meet the growing demand from the semiconductor and industrials sectors.

Saudi Aramco and Sabic AN have been awarded the world’s first TÜV certificate of accreditation for blue hydrogen, ammonia products. This move marks a significant milestone in the development of ‘blue’ hydrogen and ammonia businesses.

Chinese engineers have mastered the technically demanding construction of a jumbo LNG tank for the first time. The oil company CNOOC has completed four liquid gas storage facilities, each with a capacity of 220,000 cubic meters, the Chinese newspaper ‘Global Times’ reported. Until now, storage facilities of this size were always imported into China, from Japan and South Korea.

Ionway, a newly established joint venture of Umicore and Powerco, has plans to build its first cathode active material (Cam) production plant in Nysa, Poland. With this move, the joint venture aims to scale up the EU footprint in the e-mobility business and expand its annual production capacity to 160 GWh by the end of the decade.

PROCESS Worldwide brings to you the ‘Top 10 plant engineering projects of August 2022’ from all over the world. Right from Wood securing a 100 million dollar+ contract for a unique olefin complex in Europe to Eurotecnica winning a contract for the world’s largest melamine plant, find out all the projects making headlines here.

With the help of the pressurised enclosure, explosion protection is simple and flexible. Above all, it can be used to implement difficult Ex challenges, which is why many users make use of this solution. Two industrial plants in the petrochemical industry in Kuwait and Egypt show how this works in practice.

For the expansion of its electrolysis plant in Padana, India, Kutch Chemical has ordered corresponding equipment from Thyssenkrupp Nucera. The additional capacity will more than double the output of the plant.

Tessenderlo has recently broken ground for a new Thio-Sul manufacturing plant at its Chemelot site in Geleen, the Netherlands. The fertilizers will be used for crops, arboricultural and vegetable crop cultivation.