Technip Energies has won an Engineering, Procurement, Construction and Commissioning (EPCC) contract by Petronas Chemicals Group Berhad to develop a 60,000 ton per annum greenfield melamine plant which will be integrated into the company’s existing complex in Malaysia. The project will make use of the Casale Low Energy Melamine technology and the CO2 generated in the melamine production process will be recycled.

The two business deals will enable Arkema to further strengthen its specialties business. The move is in line with the firm’s long-term strategy of achieving more than 80 % of sales in these expert businesses.

Songwon Industrial announced that its new pilot plant in Panoli (Gujarat), India has come onstream. The plant serves the country's demand specialty chemicals.

Wison Engineering's non-wholly owned subsidiary in China has been awarded a contract by Zhejiang Petrochemical to deliver nine ethylene cracking furnaces for a 4,000 kt/yr refining and chemical integrated complex.

Tüpras has selected Honeywell UOP’s Isoalky technology to produce superior quality alkylate at its refineries in Turkey. With this move, the company aims to produce cleaner gasoline in line with its ambition of becoming carbon neutral by 2050.

Oystar developed a universal, simple-to-handle human–machine interface (HMI) panel with a uniform hard- and software structure for all Oystar machines.

A major blast at one of Yeochun NCC’s (YNCC) naphtha crackers in Yeosu, South Korea has left four people dead and others injured. Production at the ethylene and propylene producing cracker has been halted for the time being.

LG Chem is aiming to achieve 50.1 billion dollars in revenue by 2030 by expanding its high-value new businesses of eco-friendly materials, battery materials, and new drugs by more than half. With this, the firm intends to reset itself as a global sustainable science company.

Sartorius Stedim Biotech, a leading global supplier of the biopharmaceutical industry, is introducing a brand-new, scalable range of single-use bags.

Kemira, a global chemicals company serving customers in water-intensive industries, announced the opening of its new AKD emulsion and cationic rosin production lines at its production site in Nanjing, Jiangsu province in China.