Alfa Laval releases new condition monitoring software with built-in analytics. Using artificial intelligence, it helps hygienic industries prevent unplanned downtime, extends lifetime of valuable assets and helps reach sustainability targets.

Mc Dermott has won a Front-End Engineering Design (Feed) contract from Viva Energy Australia. The scope of work includes providing Feed services for a new modularized production unit which will be a part of the firm’s Geelong Refinery project. The unit is expected to produce ultra-low sulfur gasoline.

Oil prices are continuing to drop in the background of the delta variant of the coronavirus, which is spreading quickly and causing market uncertainty, as well as the potential increase in the supply of oil production by Opec member countries.

KBR’s investment in Mura Technology will help the company to accelerate the development of its plastics recycling projects and achieve its ambition of reaching a recycling capacity of 1,000,000 tons every year by 2025.

Technip Energies has been selected by BP for developing a hydrogen production unit at its Kwinana biorefinery in Western Australia. Technip Energies’ SMR proprietary technology will be used to develop the unit.

If it sounds German to you, then that's on purpose: The Grün-Book is a publication written by German, Austrian and Swiss experts to provide a guideline for a modern recycling concept in Singapore. At Achema Pulse, Dr Tim Philippi and Joachim Ihrcke presented solutions defined in this publication for closing the waste loop in Singapore.

Cypress Development is conducting a feasibility study for the Clayton Valley Lithium Project in Nevada, USA. In this background, thyssenkrupp nucera has been selected to carry out the designing and engineering for a chlor-alkali plant which will help the project to self-generate two key reagents for processing lithium-bearing claystone in order to produce lithium carbonate products.

By opening a subsidiary in Algeria, Fette Compacting is strengthening its presence in Northwest Africa. The new branch in the capital city of Algiers specializes in providing more intensive support for existing customers in the Maghreb states as well as expanding business relationships in the regional growth markets.

Covestro plans to invest a figure in the three-digit million Euro range for developing its Thermoplastic Polyurethanes (TPU) site in Zhuhai, China. On completion, the project is expected to have a production capacity of nearly 120,000 tons of TPU annually.

KBR has secured a contract from Hyundai Engineering Company to supply proprietary equipment for the first modular plant for its leading advanced plastics recycling technology Hydro-PRT. The new unit will be installed at LG Chem's Chronos Project in Dangjin, South Korea.