Petrochemicals

Lummus Technology has announced the launch of a major enhancement to its ethane feed steam cracker that is capable of achieving zero CO2 emissions from an ethylene plant.

Braskem plans to expand its offering of certified circular polypropylene by utilising Nexus Circular's advanced recycling technology, which converts landfill-bound plastics into high-quality materials used in the production of virgin-quality circular plastics.

BASF has launched a new line of products for the purification of most complex waste plastics pyrolysis feeds to enable downstream processing of circular plastics streams.

Shell Chemicals Park Moerdijk has announced a new investment that supports its plan to transition the chemicals park to produce low-carbon products and products made using recycled material.

Neste has received a positive grant decision for up to €135 million from the EU Innovation Fund for the company’s project to build chemical recycling capacities at its Porvoo refinery in Finland.

Axens has announced that Plastic Energy’s TAC process has now been fully integrated into the company’s technology portfolio.

HPC Industries LLC and Macquarie Group's Commodities and Global Markets group have formed a joint venture, Circularix, to produce recycled polyethylene terephthalate.

BASF and MAN Energy Solutions have entered into a strategic partnership to pursue the construction of an industrial-scale heat pump at the BASF site in Ludwigshafen, Germany.

Lummus Digital has announced an agreement with LACC to develop AI powered remote performance monitoring for an ethane cracker unit.

Lummus Technology has announced the commissioning and start-up of a PDH unit at Shandong Ruize Chemical Technology Co., Ltd.’s complex in Zibo City, Shandong Province, China.

Indorama Ventures has signed a license agreement with Shandong Binhua New Material Co. Ltd to build, own and operate a propylene oxide, t-butanol and t-butyl methyl ether co-production unit.

INEOS Oligomers has started up the world’s largest single train Low Viscosity Polyalphaolefin (LV PAO) plant at its Chocolate Bayou facility in Texas.

Vattenfall and Preem have entered into a feasibility phase to assess the possibility of accelerating the development of a value chain connecting offshore wind and hydrogen with the refining industry on the Swedish west coast.

Neste has purchased the European rights to Alterra Energy’s liquefaction technology, further solidifying the company’s efforts to advance chemical recycling.

GlobalData has forecasted that Asia is likely to lead global polyvinyl chloride (PVC) capacity additions with a capacity of 6.35 million tpy by 2026.