BASF has plans to invest a three-digit million-dollar amount for modernizing the chloroformates and acid chlorides production facilities at its Ludwigshafen Verbund site in Germany. With this move, the capacity of these products at the site is expected to increase by 30 %.

Air Liquide has entered into an agreement with Methanex Corporation to supply oxygen, nitrogen and utilities to its upcoming methanol plant expansion project in Louisiana. With an aim to serve Methanex and its other customers in Geismar and Baton Rouge, the company has plans to make the heavy investment in the region.

Solvay announced plans to increase it's speciality polymer production capacity in Spinetta Marengo, Italy. The Belgians plan to invest around US $ 15 million for the production lines of two of the companies perfluoropolyethers (PFPE), marketed as Fomblin-Y and Galden.

A precision bulk material handling system — developed by National Bulk Equipment — moves highly fragile product at a rate of 12 000 pounds per hour while also reducing finished product reject rate.

The Indian Institute of Technology Madras and Bombay are Exxon Mobil’s most recent university additions. The oil and gas major has signed five-year agreements with each of them to carry out further research in biofuels and gas conversion for the power and industrial sectors.

Under a collaboration agreement signed between Plug Power, Atlas Copco and Fives, new hydrogen liquefaction plants will be developed in the USA which will also make use of the cryogenic process technology to reduce the cost of liquified hydrogen by 25 %.

Air Liquide Engineering & Construction has been selected to supply two hydrogen production steam methane reformer (SMR) units to Dangote Group, the largest manufacturing conglomerate in West Africa.

The polyurethane systems house Bayer Pearl has broken ground for construction of its new headquarters in the Dubai Investments Park, which will be the site of the regional offices and state-of-the-art production facilities.

Denka has partnered with Toyo to build a chemical recycling plant in Chiba, Japan which will process approximately 3,000 tons of used polystyrene to produce styrene monomers which will be used for the production of high-quality polystyrene resins.

Sanofi celebrated the inauguration of its new digital manufacturing facility in Framingham, Massachusetts. The inauguration is marking one of the world's first digital facilities using intensified, continuous biologics production technology.