Yara International ASA (Oslo, Norway) and Lantmännen signed a commercial agreement to bring fossil-free fertilizers to market. Produced with renewable energy, these green fertilizers are crucial for decarbonizing the food chain and offering consumers more sustainable food choices. Yara, a…
SABIC (Jubail, Saudi Arabia) signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Saudi Aramco Technologies Co. and PKN Orlen (Płock, Poland) for the exploration of potential petrochemical growth or expansion projects in Poland and Central and Eastern Europe. The agreement will enable…
Maire Tecnimont S.p.A. (Milan, Italy) announced that its subsidiary Tecnimont S.p.A. has been awarded an Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) contract by Covestro AG (Leverkusen, Germany) for a new aniline plant in Antwerp, Belgium. Covestro is one of the world’s leading polymer companies, focusing…
Pörner Group (Vienna, Austria) announced that Metafrax successfully commissioned and started up a new Dynea fasil formalin plant in Gubakha, Russia together with its licensor Dynea AS. Pörner Grimma supported Dynea AS as an engineering partner for the piping and…
CropEnergies AG (Mannheim, Germany) and Johnson Matthey plc (London) have entered into an engineering, license and technical services agreement for a plant to allow CropEnergies AG to produce renewable ethyl acetate from sustainable ethanol near its production site in Zeitz,…
thyssenkrupp Uhde Thailand has been awarded a contract by a leading oleo and specialty chemicals producer in Asia for engineering services and proprietary equipment supply for an Esterification Plant. The plant will employ thyssenkrupp Uhde’s proprietary Jet Reactor technology and…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) signed a joint development agreement with China BlueChemical Ltd. (China BlueChemical), a leading natural gas producer, and the chemical engineering company Wuhuan Engineering Co., Ltd. (Wuhuan Engineering) to promote low-carbon development and utilization of marine gas…
Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium) and Trillium Renewable Chemicals have signed a letter of intent to develop the supply chain for bio-based acrylonitrile (bio-ACN). Trillium will supply Solvay with bio-ACN from Trillium’s planned commercial asset, and Solvay will evaluate bio-ACN for…
PPG (Pittsburgh, Pa.) announced that it will invest more than $10 million (9 million euros) to expand production of automotive original equipment manufacturer (OEM) coatings at its site in Weingarten, Germany. Expected to be complete in the second quarter 2022,…
Neste Corp. (Espoo, Finland) has successfully concluded its first series of trial runs processing liquefied waste plastic at its Porvoo refinery in Finland. After kicking the series off with its first-ever industrial scale trial run with liquefied waste plastic in…