AkzoNobel’s scale-up program will assist the company to maintain flexibility against supply disruptions as well as achieve its Scope 3 (upstream) carbon reduction ambitions. The firm is expected to contribute around 17 to 23 million dollars in EBITDA by 2023 with this strategic move.

Evonik and Royal DSM will locate the commercial-scale production facility for their omega-3 fatty acids from natural marine algae for animal nutrition in Blair, Nebraska.

The development of the pilot facility is in line with Trinseo’s growth strategy of making TPEs available globally. Once operational, the company is expected to locally produce its custom engineered TPE and thermoplastic urethanes.

Field Connex Multi-Input Output (MIO) now connects four different signal types to any control system via digital communications. This compact product offers intrinsic safety and sets an example for simple configuration, installation, and handling.

Mouvex has recently introduced its H-Flo Series and G-Flo Series eccentric disc pumps for the North American market. The pumps can handle highly viscous fluids up to 10,000 cP and soft particles up to 20 mm, it also offers flow rates up to 70 m3/h with a maximum output pressure of 10 bar.

DNV together with 18 industry leaders have collaborated to launch a new Joint Industry Project to enhance the standardization for safe and cost-efficient hydrogen production systems that use electrolysis powered by renewable energy to produce green hydrogen. A certification scheme is also being developed for electrolyzer projects.

Having completed its factory revamp in Perm, Halo Polymer announces the start of the R-14 manufacturing, which allowed practical doubling of volume of the finished product output, bringing it up to 20 tonnes per month.

Refinery expansion in the Middle East: Jacobs Engineering will provide project management consulting (PMC) services for an expansion project at a Saudi Arabian lube oil refinery of Saudi Aramco.

Solvay and Veolia have partnered together to develop an industrial energy transition project called ‘Dombasle Énergie’ in France. The project aims to replace coal with refuse-derived fuel (RDF) for the production of clean energy which will be supplied to Solvay’s soda ash plant in France. The project will help to reduce the site’s CO2 emissions by 50 %.

Oxea announced that its specialty esters plant in Nanjing, China, is now mechanically complete. After a construction period of slightly more than fifteen months the new state-of-the-art plant is currently in the commissioning and start-up phase. The new plant is Oxea’s first production site in Asia.