Solvay and Iberdrola Renouvelables France have plans to enter into a 20-year corporate power purchase agreement under which Iberdrola will supply 60 % of the produced green electricity to Solvay’s industrial sites in Tavaux and Saint Fons in France.

KBR’s H2Act technology has been chosen by Hanwha Impact Corporation for developing the world’s first commercial ammonia cracking unit in Daesan, Republic of Korea. KBR will provide technology licensing and proprietary engineering design for the unit, which will be designed to deliver over 200 metric tons per day of clean hydrogen as fuel.

Semi-permeable polymer membranes are an efficient way to produce clean water. To overcome existing challenges such as fouling, US researchers have now used computational methods to advance membrane technology.

Aker Carbon Capture has been selected by Ørsted to develop a large-scale carbon capture project for its Ørsted Kalundborg Hub in Denmark. Under the terms of the agreement, Aker Carbon Capture will deliver five Just Catch units as well as additional equipment for the project.

The Maag Group will exhibit numerous solutions at a soon-to-be-held Italian trade fair including a high-performance melt filter for the filtration of heavily contaminated polymer feedstock, an underwater pelletizing system designed for high throughputs of virgin polymer production, an innovation in strand pelletizing, and a stand-alone system to monitor pumps.

With the approval, the joint venture will aim to produce cathode active materials (Cam) and precursor materials (PCAM) in Europe on a large-scale. It will also supply key materials to Power Co's European battery cell factories in the near future.

Shell and Petronas have undertaken a final investment decision to develop the Rosmari-Marjoram gas project in Malaysia. The project is expected to produce 800 million standard cubic feet of gas per day (MMscf/d) and production is expected to begin in 2026.

For the first time in the Mena region, oil which is processed from plastic waste has been converted into ISCC+ certified circular polymers. The plastic pyrolysis oil was processed at the Satorp refinery in Jubail, Saudi Arabia and then used as a feedstock by Petrokemya to produce certified circular polymers.

Merck has plans to expand the production capacity of reagents at its Nantong site in China. The move will help the firm’s customers to gain access to highly-purified reagents in order to carry out quality control and testing.

When it comes to originator companies and drug development, there is a lot of money at stake. Faster development and faster time-to-market means more time to benefit from patent protection — that’s the motto. Here we examine why so much depends on a systematic approach and the role of the scale-up.