ABB has secured a contract by Plug Power to supply electrical systems to two hydrogen plants in New York and Georgia respectively. On completion of the project, the plants are expected to produce 60 tons of green hydrogen daily.

The new large-scale facility is expected to produce up to 1.2 million tons of green ammonia annually and will be built under a 50:50 joint venture between Scatec and the Acme Group in the Duqm Special Economic Zone of Oman.

Schubert & Salzer Control Systems will be showcasing its latest range of aseptic and sliding gate valves for the food industry at the soon to be held Anuga Foodtec trade fair in Germany.

It’s obvious: the peaks we witnessed on the commodity markets in the first half of 2011 were overstretched. Now investors are cutting positions, leading to a price correction that was, according to analysts, overdue. Our gallery shows trends and values of the global commodity markets.

Within the framework of the Russia – Africa Economic forum, Uralchem and Grupo Opaia signed a Memorandum of Understanding. The MoU provides for the creation of a joint ammonia and urea production complex.

The European Responsible Care Award is a recognition for the chemical industry’s work to enhance safe chemicals management and achieve performance excellence. This year’s winners were announced during Cefic’s annual Chemical Convention in Helsinki. Among the winners was Kemira, for utilizing recycled by-products as a raw material in drinking water and wastewater treatment products.

Under an agreement, Air Products will develop a new Air Separation Unit (ASU) at the Jindal Shadeed Iron & Steel facility in Sohar, Oman. The new unit is expected to produce over 400 T/D of oxygen and nitrogen which will be supplied to the facility.

The Shaw Group has recently completed services work for the addition of a Shaw proprietary Ultra Selective Cracking (USC) furnace for Indian natural gas company Gail in Pata, Uttar Pradesh.

Evonik announced that it is setting aside € 100 million for the topic of digitalization and is also entering into a strategic partnership with IBM and the University of Duisburg-Essen.

Given the trend for ever increasing potency of pharmaceutical powders, project engineers are continually faced with the challenge of upgrading the containment of their charging process to a new or existing reactor.