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Hydrogen
Hydrogen | 06 July 2022

Shell to start building Europe’s largest renewable hydrogen plant Holland Hydrogen I

The 200MW electrolyser will be constructed on the Tweede Maasvlakte in the port of Rotterdam and will produce up to 60,000 kilograms of renewable hydrogen per day.

Petrochemical
Petrochemical | 06 July 2022

Plastic types and their challenges : Topsoe

olyolefins such as PE and PP are well suited for pyrolysis and the resulting oil will make a great feedstock for steam crackers after hydroprocessing.

Petrochemical
Petrochemical | 05 July 2022

Wood wins FEED study contract for refinery upgrade, propylene production in Pakistan

The strategic project, with a total installed cost of over $1 billion dollars, serves a critical role in meeting the increasing energy needs of Pakistan's domestic market

General
General | 04 July 2022

IMCD opens new office and application lab in Bangladesh

The new facilities will be spread across two storeys – the office will be located on one floor, while the other floor will be dedicated to the Food & Nutrition Application Laboratory

Hydrogen
Hydrogen | 04 July 2022

Ineos granted state funding for green hydrogen plant study in Germany

The state government of North Rhine-Westphalia has confirmed €770,000 funding to support a feasibility study for the construction of a 100-megawatt water electrolysis plant for the production of green hydrogen at the INEOS site in Köln

Chemical
Chemical | 04 July 2022

BASF partners with THOR GmbH on non-halogenated flame retardant additives

The growing demand from the global construction and automotive industry combined with stricter fire safety standards will significantly influence demand for sustainable flame retardant chemicals

Chemical
Chemical | 04 July 2022

Polynt to build trimellitates plant in Mexico

Mechanical completion is expected by the end of 2023 and the start-up is scheduled in Q1 2024

Chemical
Chemical | 04 July 2022

Polynt to expand coating resin production capacity in North America

This expansion will be fully effective by 2023 and will meet the growing needs of the paint and coatings industry with alkyd, polyester, copolymer, emulsion, and urethane resin technologies

People
People | 04 July 2022

OQEMA appoints Patrick Barthels as new CEO

Patrick has become Chief Executive Officer of the OQEMA Group from 1 July 2022

Gas
Gas | 04 July 2022

Technip Energies awarded EPC contract for waste to energy CCS project in Norway

The project will be the first full-scale waste-to-energy plant in the world with CO2 capture

Chemical
Chemical | 03 July 2022

Azelis acquires specialty chemicals distributor Chemical Partners

The company is an independent distributor of specialty chemicals with a strong foothold in the industrial chemicals market, particularly in CASE and R&PA, in Africa and the Middle East

People
People | 03 July 2022

Lonza appoints Maria Soler Nunez as Head of Operations

Maria will assume new role from 1 August 2022

Chemical
Chemical | 03 July 2022

Croda completes sale of its performance technologies, industrial chemicals businesses to Cargill

The divestment and the associated proceeds exclude Croda Sipo (Sipo), a Chinese joint venture in which Croda has a 65% shareholding

Petrochemical
Petrochemical | 03 July 2022

Lummus and Clariant announce successful start-up of world's largest CATOFIN PDH plant in China

Qingdao Jinneng New Material Co. has started-up 900,000 metric tons per annum CATOFIN propane dehydrogenation (PDH) plant in Qingdao, Shandong Province, China

Chemical
Chemical | 03 July 2022

Trinseo, GMP Group to jointly build polystyrene recycling plant in the Netherlands

Collaboration aims at providing a framework for cooperation, on an exclusive basis, the construction and operation by GMP of an advanced pretreatment or regeneration plant with a minimum 25kt capacity in the Netherlands

Petrochemical
Petrochemical | 03 July 2022

Lummus commissions CATOFIN PDH unit in China

The unit is part of Shandong Ruize’s plan to transition its complex from refining to petrochemicals

People
People | 02 July 2022

BASF names Tatiana Kalman as head of Personal Care Europe business unit

Prior to her current role, Kalman has been Senior Vice President of BASF’s Performance Chemicals business for North and South America

Hydrogen
Hydrogen | 02 July 2022

Sumitomo Chemical join hands with Japanese university on turquoise hydrogen

They will accelerate joint research on a catalyst and a process for low environmental impact commercial production of turquoise hydrogen, along with joint research into applications of the solid carbons generated as byproducts from the process

Digitization
Digitization | 02 July 2022

ABB India to enable intelligent automation for THINK Gas

ABB has designed a solution that will integrate, monitor and control day-to-day operations across the enterprise

Hydrogen
Hydrogen | 02 July 2022

MTAR Technologies receives Rs. 174.6 crore order

The green hydrogen market in India is expected to be US $8 billion by 2030 and US $340 billion by 2050.

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