The market for Isopropylbenzene or Cumene, a main precursor of intermediates for phenol and acetone production, could grow by respectable 4%: Asia-Pacific has rapidly emerged as the largest global consumer of cumene over the last decade, thanks to changes in the petrochemical industry, states a new report by GBI Research.

The Wago IPC is a compact industrial PC solution for real-time control applications, e.g offshore automation in hazardous areas, as this article shows.

The Oil and Gas Climate Initiative (OGCI) has launched additional initiatives to support the objectives of the Paris Agreement including the introduction of a Kick Starter initiative to encourage large-scale commercial carbon capture, use and storage across the globe.

With an aim to meet strong demand from the aerospace sector, Solvay has undertaken the move to expand its thermoplastic composites capacity at its California facility in the USA. The initiative also aims to improve output, quality, consistency as well as industrial reliability.

BASF and Sinopec will expand the capacity of existing propionic acid production with an additional 30,000 metric tons annually at their state-of-the-art Verbund site in Nanjing.

Kemira has achieved a breakthrough by starting the first worldwide full-scale production of its newly developed water-soluble polymer. The new polymers are manufactured according to the principles of biomass-balance which means that majority of the fossil based raw materials are replaced by ISCC Plus certified biobased and renewable mass-balanced feedstocks. These polymers are produced at the company’s facilities in Italy and UK and will be supplied to water-intensive industries across the globe.

With this investment, Cemex plans to increase its hydrogen injection capacity across its cement operations while reducing the consumption of fossil fuels leading to the decarbonization of its processes. Hiiroc has introduced a technology that makes use of thermal plasma electrolysis to convert biomethane, flare gas, or natural gas into clean hydrogen at a lower cost than other existing solutions.

Emerson’s new Pacsystems Edge Solutions assist OEMs, systems integrators, and end users to speed up the configuration process and implement advanced edge computing, visualization and IIOT technology without wasting valuable time spent on integrating, developing and validating digital transformation projects.

The Linde Group has been awarded a major contract by PJSC Nizhnekamskneftekhim (NKNK) to supply an olefin plant in the city of Nizhnekamsk, located in the Republic of Tatarstan in the Russian Federation.

ThyssenKrupp Uhde has received an order from Bandirma Gübre Fabrikaları A.Ş. (BAGFAS) in Bandirma, Turkey, to supply a plant for the production of calcium ammonium nitrate fertilizer. Under the roughly €141 million contract, the new plant will be integrated into the existing facility on the southern coast of the Sea of Marmara, and is scheduled to start operation in early 2015.