The Project Manager will fix it — really? If companies want to deliver successful capital projects in the future, a change in attitude is needed to build an inclusive culture to engage and motivate both employees and external partners.

Royal DSM has announced that it has concluded its takeover of the Brazilian animal nutrition and technology firm Prodap. With this move, DSM will strengthen and further develop its digital solutions to enable smarter nutritional decision-making across global markets.

Post the termination of its existing contractor Irem, which was responsible for 80 % of the work at Borealis’ new PDH plant in Kallo, Belgium, the company has announced that it will be re-tendering the contracts for the project.

The efficiency and service life of pumps can be extended by following the manufacturer’s installation recommendation for pipe straight run entering the pump. When cramped pump houses or restricted pipe runs make this impractical and costly, Vortab Flow Conditioners overcome this challenge by delivering a uniform, swirl-free flow profile to the pump inlet in as little as three pipe diameters.

Novo Nordisk has plans to acquire Inversago Pharma, a developer of CB1 receptor-based therapies for the potential treatment of obesity, diabetes and complications associated with metabolic disorders. The 1.075-billion-dollar acquisition includes Inversago Pharma’s lead development asset INV-202, an oral CB1 inverse agonist.

Sulzer Chemtech’s advanced separation technologies will be used for European Energy’s mega e-methanol plant in Denmark. Expected to produce 32’000 metric tonnes of carbon neutral fuels annually, the plant will help to decarbonize the heavy transportation sector.

Exxonmobil has recently made the announcement regarding the hefty investment for expanding its Baytown chemical plant in Texas, USA. The project is expected to maximize the value of increased Permian Basin production.

Sumitomo Chemical has already begun the construction of a pilot facility in Japan to demonstrate a new environmentally-friendly process for producing propylene directly from ethanol. The pilot unit is expected to be completed by the first half of 2025.

BASF’s new acetylene plant can produce 90,000 ton of the versatile chemical annually. A byproduct of the process is what is known as acetylene coke. To prevent the coke from clogging the combustion chamber, it is removed by so-called poking robots, specially developed in-house by BASF.

With an aim to expand its global alkoxylation network, Nouryon has acquired a specialty surfactant alkoxylation plant in Singapore which is also expected to meet the growing demand in the Asia-Pacific region.