Downstream petrochemical news

Neste has enhanced its chemical recycling capabilities by collaborating with Tepsa Netherlands on the storage and handling of liquefied waste plastic in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

Over 600 delegates attended this year’s Global Research and Innovation in Plastics Sustainability Conference (GRIPS), which showcased the industry’s leading innovations working towards plastic sustainability and circularity.

Schneider Electric has partnered with GR3N to create the first open automation system for the advanced plastic recycling industry.

Aduro Clean Technologies Inc. (Aduro) has announced a new patent filing covering a new technology for transforming renewable oils and certain waste plastics into higher-value platform chemicals.

Citroniq Chemicals LLC (Citroniq), a producer of carbon-negative materials, has announced the financial closing of US$12 million Series A investment.

LyondellBasell (LYB) has entered into an agreement to acquire full ownership of APK AG in Merseburg, Germany.

Energy solutions specialist, Aggreko, has significantly invested in its European fleet of cooling solutions to bring reliable, clean and efficient cooling to the market.

Technip Energies has been awarded an Engineering and Procurement contract by Chevron Phillips Chemical (CPChem) for the supply of a proprietary low emission cracking furnace in an existing olefins unit at its facility in Sweeny, Texas, US.

Petrobras has successfully finished a series of industrial-scale tests to produce a light hydrocarbon stream (LHR) rich in ethylene, incorporating renewable content.

Technip Energies has been awarded a significant contract for IOCL’s grassroots naphtha cracking unit at Paradip in India.