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Wood awarded FEED contract for PRL refinery expansion in Karachi

Wood plc (Aberdeen, Scotland) has secured a new multi-million-dollar front-end engineering design (FEED) contract by Pakistan Refinery Ltd. (PRL) for its planned Refinery Expansion and Upgrade Project (REUP) in Karachi. PRL’s refinery, situated on the coastal belt of Karachi, is…

Versalis and Forever Plast to construct plastics recycling facility at Porto Marghera

Versalis S.p.A. (San Donato Milanese), Eni's chemical company, and Forever Plast, an Italian company and European leader in the recycling of post-consumer plastics, have signed a new agreement as part of a project aimed at transforming the Porto Marghera industrial…

Ineos announces government funding for green-H2 feasibility study in Köln

Ineos (London) has announced that 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…

DOMO Chemicals and Hynamics collaborating on zero-carbon hydrogen project in France

DOMO Chemicals (Leuna, Germany) and Hynamics, a 100% subsidiary of EDF Group specializing in the production of low-carbon hydrogen, have entered into a partnership project with the objective of achieving zero-carbon for 100% of the hydrogen used at the Belle-Étoile…

Wacker opens new silicones production site in India

Wacker Chemie AG (Munich, Germany) opened a new production site for silicones in Panagarh, India. The plant, which is situated 160 km northwest of Kolkata, will manufacture silicone rubber and ready-to-use silicone compounds for electromobility, medical technology and electrical transmission…

Trinseo and GMP Group announce plans for polystyrene recycling plant in the Netherlands

Trinseo (Berwyn, Pa.) and GMP Group (GMP), a circular business innovations company in the Netherlands, announced jointly their intended concerted efforts in further unlocking the circularity of polystyrene (PS). Trinseo and GMP’s collaboration aims at providing a framework for cooperation,…

Sumitomo Chemical announces “turquoise” hydrogen joint research project

Sumitomo Chemical Co. (Tokyo, Japan) and the National Institute of Technology Asahikawa College announced that 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…

Showa Denko and SK Inc. planning high-purity-gas production in the U.S.

Showa Denko K.K. (SDK; Tokyo) and SK Inc. (Seoul, South Korea) concluded a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to give consideration to a plan to start cooperative work to produce high-purity gases, which are used in semiconductor production processes, in North…

Neste makes €1.9-billion investment for expansion of renewable-products refinery in Rotterdam

Neste Corp. (Espoo, Finland) has made the final investment decision to invest into new renewable products production capacity in Rotterdam. The decision is based on demand for renewable products growing substantially with customers' higher climate ambitions. Neste’s current 1.4 million…

Ineos to significantly expand its high-viscosity PAO plant in LaPorte

INEOS (London) announced that Ineos Oligomers is executing a phased 50% expansion of its LaPorte, Texas, High Viscosity (HV) PAO unit, fully effective by mid-2025.  The unit was initially built with a nameplate capacity of 20,000 metric ton per year…