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2023 CEPCI updates: September (prelim.) and August (final)

The preliminary value for the CE Plant Cost Index (CEPCI) for September 2023 (the most recent available) fell compared to the August value, reversing the slight increase that was observed from the cycle prior to that. The CEPCI has been…

The Future of Chemical Manufacturing: Upgrading Digital Capabilities for Sustainability

Learn how digitalization technologies empower chemical manufacturing companies to enhance operations and achieve sustainability goals. Focused on the chemical process industries (CPI), it addresses the industry's pivotal role in environmental sustainability and the strategic use of digital tools such as…

DRAFT – Focus on Heat Pumps

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Neste and Mitsui Chemicals to collaborate on renewable packaging materials

Neste Corp. (Espoo, Finland), Mitsui Chemicals, Inc. (Tokyo) and Prime Polymer, a subsidiary of Mitsui Chemicals, are working together to provide more sustainable food packaging solutions for CO-OP, a brand of the Japanese Consumers Co-operative Union (JCCU). In the first…

Evonik to build new colloidal silica plant in Michigan

Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany) is building a new plant to produce ultra-high purity colloidal silica at its site in Weston, Michigan, USA which is expected to generate a total capital spending of $7.9 million in 2023 and 2024. The…

Monarch Energy and LS Power announce green hydrogen partnership

Monarch Energy and LS Power, a New York-based Power and Energy Infrastructure manager, have formed a partnership to deploy a portfolio of green hydrogen projects throughout the United States. LS Power plans to invest up to $400 million into projects…

AkzoNobel to build new coatings plant in Spain

AkzoNobel N.V. (Amsterdam, the Netherlands) is investing €32 million in a new plant at its Vilafranca site in Spain, which will produce bisphenol-free coatings for the metal packaging industry in EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa). The facility will use…

Evonik and Fuhua join forces to produce and market hydrogen peroxide in China

Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany) and Chinese chemicals producer Fuhua Tongda Chemicals Company (Fuhua) have signed a license agreement for Fuhua to build a new hydrogen peroxide plant in Leshan, Sichuan Province, using Evonik’s know-how. Furthermore, both partners will evaluate…

Sulzer Chemtech begins licensing new polymer-recycling technologies

Sulzer Ltd. (Winterthur, Switzerland) is launching a portfolio of licensing technologies to enable carbon-neutral polymer recycling. The solutions address rising demand for a more eco-conscious, circular economy of plastic and for the decarbonization of industries as a whole.  The latest…

Topsoe signs green ammonia contract with Allied Green Ammonia

Topsoe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark) announced that Allied Green Ammonia Pty Ltd (Allied) has selected Topsoe’s dynamic green ammonia technology for an ammonia plant in Gove, Northern Territory, Australia The produced green ammonia is intended to be exported from Gove to…