Siemens Water Technologies was chosen to provide a cooling water treatment system for the capacity expansion of a gas-based power plant in India. The power plant in the Indian district Gujarat will employ two Siemens Contrafast systems to treat up to four million gallons of water from the Tapi river per day.

Clariant has plans to suspend all business with Russia with immediate effect in the background of the country’s invasion of Ukraine. The company has a sales office as well as a laboratory in Moscow.

Under an agreement signed between Adnoc and Proman, both the companies will develop UAE’s first methanol production facility at the Ta’ziz Industrial Chemicals Zone in Ruwais, Abu Dhabi. The facility is expected to be one of the most energy efficient and low-emitting plants in the world.

Specialty chemicals company Lanxess is expanding its range of membrane elements for reverse osmosis (RO).

Linde has acquired a minority stake in ITM Power, a British manufacturer of polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) electrolyzers for the electro-chemical splitting of water into hydrogen and oxygen.

BASF and Petronas expand their integrated complex in Kuantan/Malaysia and build a new world-scale production plant for 2-Ethylhexanoic Acid (2-EHAcid).

Two new initiatives in the Netherlands aim to realise an open access pilot plant for polymerisation in order to boost production of plastics based on biomaterials.

HES Beheer NV and Hestya Energy BV jointly announce that terminal developer Hestya Energy has completed its confirmatory due diligence in respect of HES Beheer and its subsidiaries.

This year’s European Responsible Care Awards are dominated by projects promoting digitalisation and circularity in the chemical industry. The 2019 winners are essenscia, Kemira Oyj, Solvay and Neste Oyj.

With an annual capacity of 400 kilo tonne, the new plant is expected to be one of the largest polypropylene plants of its kind in Asia. The facility will use Lyondell Basell’s Spheripol technology and commence production in 2021.