A consortium of companies comprising Air Liquide, Akzo Nobel Specialty Chemicals, Enerkem and the Port of Rotterdam has signed a project development agreement covering initial investments in an advanced waste-to-chemistry facility in Rotterdam.

As energy grids become increasingly renewables led, Dow and Shell intend to work together to develop an innovative E-cracker technology which aims to electrify ethylene steam crackers and thus, decarbonise the chemicals industry.

Many companies in the industrial ecosystem fail to take the necessary steps to minimize their security risks. In an effort to accelerate commissioning time, many companies do not even take advantage of a product’s built-in security features. Know more about best practices to secure the plant against cyber risks.

Eastman Chemical has expanded its collaboration with the IMCD Group and from August 1, 2020, the Group will carry out the distribution of specialty plastics in diverse markets including Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

Eurochem, a leading global agrochemical company, has announced that its subsidiary Phosphorit has commenced the construction of a new high-tech ammonia plant in Kingisepp, Russia.

The degree of automation in production plants in the food, dairy and beverage industry is constantly increasing. This also increases the demand for intelligent field devices. Sooner or later this leads to a confusing multitude of interfaces with different mechanical and electrical characteristics. In general, the solution to this challenge is called IO-Link and Gea's T.Vis actuators are now available with this technology.

Egypt’s Alexandria National Refining & Petrochemicals Company (ANRPC) will use UOP (a Honeywell company) technology and equipment as part of a $300 million, multi-year project to expand an existing, state-of-the-art gasoline production facility to meet growing domestic demand for high-octane gasoline.

Food and beverage (F&B) producers, that until now have been absorbing higher costs, are set to increase their prices, points out the latest findings of Grant Thornton’s Food and Beverage International Business Report.

Dongming Hengchang Petrochemical has selected Lyondell Basell's Spheripol polypropylene technology for a 200 kt per year plant in Heze City, Shandong Province, China.

Clariant Catalysts has doubled the capacity of its high-throughput R&D center in Palo Alto, California. The facility has incorporated high quality equipment and will also invite additional technical experts to the center.