The acquisition of the biotech firm Targenomix, a spin-off of the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Plant Physiology, will assist Bayer in its Crop Science R&D as the start-up will provide novel systems biology approaches for innovative crop protection discovery.

Pfeiffer Vacuum has launched a new Smartvane rotary vane pump for mass spectrometry which comes equipped with a hermetically sealed pump housing. Ideal for applications in environmental, food, pharmaceutical and clinical analytics, the pump ensures zero leakage.

Unipar has chosen Thyssenkrupp Nucera’s electrolyzers which features the highly efficient BM2.7 technology for modernizing its chlor-alkali plant in Brazil. This move will replace the plant’s existing mercury and diaphragm plants.

Under the terms of the agreement, Nova Chemicals and Plastic Energy will conduct a feasibility study to develop an advanced recycling facility in Ontario, Canada. If approved, the facility is expected to be the largest of its kind in Canada with a potential initial capacity of 66 kt per annum.

BASF has plans to construct a commercial-scale battery recycling black mass plant in Schwarzheide, Germany. With a processing capacity of 15,000 tons of EV batteries and production scrap every year, the plant is expected to be built to the highest EHS standards.

With a revenue of 1.4 billion dollars in 2020, Tata Chemicals needs no introduction. Zarir Langrana, Executive Director and President (Global Chemicals Business), Tata Chemicals in an interview with PROCESS Worldwide shares the various measures undertaken by the company in the background of trending concepts such as circular economy, digitalization and decarbonization.

Under a joint study agreement, Pertamina and Air Liquide Indonesia have teamed up to develop Carbon Capture and Utilization (CCU) technology at the Balikpapan Refinery Processing Unit in Indonesia. The two firms will jointly conduct a study on CO2 Syngas and Flue Gas capture technology application from hydrogen production at the site.

Repsol has started up its 2.5 MW electrolyzer at its Petronor industrial center in Biscay, Spain which is expected to produce 350 tons per year of renewable hydrogen for industrial use.

Suspending their businesses, exiting projects and vowing to stop all new investments, this is how global energy and chemical firms are protesting against the world’s largest exporter of crude as well as the leading producer and exporter of natural gas – Russia.

In the background of rising inflation, W. R. Grace has announced an increase in global prices for its Fluid Catalytic Cracking (FCC) catalysts. The company states that the move was necessary as inflation was impacting the energy as well as raw material markets.