With an annual capacity of 35,000 tonnes of TBHP/TBA, the new hydroperoxide facility is expected to be completed in the second half of 2021. Nouryon has also signed a long-term agreement with Nanjing Jinling Huntsman to provide raw materials to the new unit.

The 450 million dollar deal will provide Total with reserves and resources in excess of 500 million barrels of oil. In addition to this, the company will also attain an exploration potential in the Sirte Basin which is under Waha Concessions.

Monolithic structures in process automation will soon be outdated. This will lead to even more competition, Jürgen Brandes, CEO of Siemens Division Process Industries and Drives, says in a double interview with his colleague and CTO Jörn Oprzynski. What role will be left for Distributed Control Systems (DCS) in the future? What can assistance systems already do today, and is autonomous plant operation really going to happen? Our exclusive interview offers up answers to all of these and a lot more questions.

The Serum Institute of India (SII), the largest vaccine manufacturer in the world, will begin local trials of the Covid-19 vaccine and also manufacture the vaccine once it gets ready by Oxford and Astra Zeneca.

Under the terms of the MOU, Linde and Cnooc will jointly explore the possibility of investing in hydrogen production and filling units as well as increasing the use of hydrogen in industrial applications.

The new Air Separation Unit (ASU) is fit to accommodate renewable energy in the grid and will be used to produce 2,200 tonnes of oxygen per day. The unit will also be built with the proprietary solution Alive.

The company is looking at a potential U.S. Gulf Coast project which is expected to expand its annual polypropylene manufacturing capacity by up to 450,000 tonnes.

Exxon Mobil has collaborated with the University of California, Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory to discover the new material. The innovation is capable of capturing more than 90 % of CO2 emitted from industrial sources.

Peruvians want to drink more non-alcoholic beverages. In order to meet the growing needs the beverages producer Arca Continental and Corporacion Lindley, the official Coca-Cola bottler in Peru, together have started up production of a new plant in Pucusana/Peru.

Taking existing process equipment into the industry-4.0-age: The new pump monitoring system called KSB Guard provides networked vibration and temperature sensors fitted directly to the pump to make availability at plant level transparent.