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AmSty, INEOS Styrolution and Trinseo collaborate to advance the circularity of polystyrene

AmSty (The Woodands, Tex.), INEOS Styrolution (Frankfurt, Germany) and Trinseo (Berwyn, Pa.) signed a Joint Development Agreement (JDA) to jointly explore recycling options for polystyrene, underlining the companies’ commitment to a circular economy for polystyrene. This JDA represents the first…

UOP process technologies selected for refinery upgrade in Uzbekistan

Honeywell (Charlotte, N.C.) announced that Bukhara Refinery LLC, a subsidiary of JSC Uzbekneftegaz, will use UOP technology to increase crude oil conversion and produce cleaner-burning Euro-V standard gasoline and diesel fuel in compliance with the government of Uzbekistan’s stricter specifications…

Shell contracts ABB to help expand blending capabilities at Jakarta lube-oil plant

ABB (Zurich, Switzerland) announced that its specialized process engineering company in France, Cellier Activity, has been awarded the contract to install new blending technologies and a process control system at Shell’s Marunda Lube Oil Blending Plant (LOBP) in Jakarta, in…

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Bostik inaugurates a new industrial adhesives plant in Japan

Arkema S.A. (Colombes, France) announces the start-up of a new world-scale industrial adhesives plant in Japan. Those new capacities will enable Bostik to serve its Japanese customers in the continuously growing markets of diapers, hygiene, packaging, labeling, transportation and electronics.…

Frames Group to supply hydrogen-recovery system for MOL’s Danube Refinery

Oil and gas processing equipment supplier Frames Group B.V. (Alphen aan den Rijn, the Netherlands) has been awarded a contract to supply a hydrogen recovery and purification system for the MOL Group’s (Budapest, Hungary) Danube Refinery at Százhalombatta near Budapest.…

Trinseo and Fernholz commercialize recycled polystyrene for food packaging

Trinseo (Berwyn, Pa.) announced that it has developed a new grade of post-consumer recycled polystyrene, together with the German packaging manufacturer Fernholz. The latest Form Fill Seal (FFS) formulations incorporate 40% r-PS, depending on final application, thanks to Trinseo’s unique…

Japan’s new technology-development project focused on green hydrogen

Toshiba Energy Systems & Solutions Corporation (Toshiba ESS; Kawasaki, Japan), Tohoku Electric Power Co., Inc., Tohoku Electric Power Network Co., Inc., Iwatani and Asahi Kasei Corp. will work together to develop green hydrogen technologies, with focus on further heightening system…

ORLEN starts a tender procedure to select the contractor for its hydrogen hub project

PKN Orlen (Płock, Poland) has commenced a process to select the contractor to build a hydrogen hub in Włocławek, designed to ultimately produce up to 600 kg of purified hydrogen per hour. The project, comprising the production unit and logistics…

Fashion for Good consortium kicks off chemical-recycling initiative

The Fashion for Good consortium has initiated “Full Circle Textiles Project: Scaling Innovations in Cellulosic Recycling” – a first-of-its-kind consortium project. As much as 73% of clothing produced is sent to landfill or is incinerated, and of all new clothing…