Honeywell UOP signed a partnership agreement with China’s Wison Engineering to jointly provide methanol-to-olefin (MTO) technologies and engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) services to customers outside of China.

Honeywell UOP announced that Zhejiang Petrochemical will use four of its Polybed pressure swing adsorption (PSA) units to supply high-purity hydrogen for its new integrated refining and petrochemical complex in Zhoushan, Zhejiang Province.

Ineos has plans to develop a world scale carbon capture enabled hydrogen production plant in Grangemouth, Scotland. For this, the company is inviting bids from leading engineering design contractors for the design of the mega project. The produced low carbon hydrogen will be used to replace hydrocarbon fuels used at the Grangemouth site which will help to power its processes and manufacture important materials.

Construction chemicals are one of the important sectors in the chemical industry. It is used for various reasons with the main objective being - protection. Anti carbonation coating is one such solution that protects concretes in the building from pollutants and harsh weather.

Saudi Aramco has completed the acquisition of Shell’s 50 % stake in the Sasref refining joint venture in Jubail, Saudi Arabia. The move is in line with Saudi Aramco’s long term downstream growth strategy.

Covestro has announced a research breakthrough for the use of plant-based raw materials in plastics production: aniline, an important basic chemical, can now be derived from biomass, the company claims.

All mover the industry, separation processes play an important role. But what use is the best filter setup, if the cartridge are defect? PROCESS talked with Dr. Jens Meyer, Product Manager, Integrity Testing & Air Filtration, Sartorius Stedim Biotech (SSB), about the company's new Sartocheck 4 Filter Integrity Testing system...

PROCESS Worldwide brings to you the ‘Top 10 plant engineering projects of January 2022’ from all over the world. Right from the development of Europe’s most sustainable cracker to Linde starting up the world’s first plant for extracting hydrogen from natural gas pipelines and Microsoft investing 50-million-dollars for building the world’s first alcohol-to-jet SAF plant, find out all the projects making headlines here.

Showa Denko, a leading Japanese chemical engineering firm, has increased its capacity for supplying high-purity nitrous oxide (N2O), a specialty gas for semiconductor production, by cooperating with Dooam Industrial (Dooam), of South Korea.

BP is increasingly investing in projects that have a promising potential of reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Turning household waste into jet fuel, carbon dioxide into concrete and trucks into energy-saving convoys, are three examples for the company's venturing in transitional technologies and high-tech start-ups.