Sulzer has started-up the world’s largest facility for styrene extraction from pyrolysis gasoline (pygas) derived from naphtha cracking. The plant makes use of Sulzer Chemtech’s proprietary GT-Styrene licensed technology to produce 100’000 tonnes of styrene annually.

To meet the strong industry demand, Air Products has plans to increase the winding capacity at its LNG equipment manufacturing facility in Port Manatee, Florida, USA. With this move, the firm aims to improve its equipment delivery schedules.

Process performance qualification (PPQ) runs are essential for ‘at-scale’ verification of the robustness of R&D lyo-processes, as these runs can often unravel challenges not encountered at the R&D scale. This case study exhibits the loss of pressure control in a commercial lyophilizer during PPQ runs of a parenteral product, its root cause analysis and finally, its resolution via remote PID-tuning performed by IMA Lab4Life scientists.

Irena and thyssenkrupp have joined hands to share knowledge on large-scale production and supply of green hydrogen and other green energy carriers and their transport across the entire hydrogen value chain.

In line with the goals of the European Green Deal, Ineos Olefins Belgium has plans to create the region’s most eco-friendly and sustainable cracker project ever at a whooping cost of 3+ billion euros. The landmark ‘Project One’ will be located at the port of Antwerp in Belgium and will make use of the latest technologies to produce ethylene with the lowest carbon footprint in all of Europe.

KBR has secured a contract by Deepak Fertilizers and Petrochemicals Corporation to modernize three of its plants in order to achieve lower emissions and increase their production capacity.

Black & Veatch together with Shanghai LBT Engineering & Technology have developed the landmark production facility in China for Calysseo Chongqing, a joint venture between animal nutrition leader Adisseo and protein innovator Calysta. The new unit is expected to produce 20,000 tons of low carbon animal feed every year.

Following the final approval for the construction of its Zhanjiang Verbund site, BASF will start the next phase — the construction of a steam cracker and several downstream plants.

In the chemical industry, research facilities create the link between laboratory development and industrial-scale production. Flexible plants comprising multiple areas are sites of innovation and testing, acting as stepping stones for subsequent scale-up. When Evonik Industries was looking to modernize such a plant at the Wolfgang Industrial Park in Hanau, Germany, it was the perfect place to use Simatic PCS neo, the completely web-based process control system from Siemens.

Total Energies has plans to construct a new mechanical recycling unit for plastic waste at its Grandpuits site in France. The new facility is expected to produce 30,000 tons a year of high value-added compounds and will contain up to 50 % recycled plastic material.