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31. Dow And Shell Team Up To Develop Electric Cracking Technology 6/16/2020

    Dow, Inc. and Shell today announced a joint development agreement to accelerate technology to electrify ethylene steam crackers, which supply chemicals used to make products that people use every day. Today’s steam crackers rely on fossil fuel combustion to heat their furnaces, making them CO₂ intensive.

32. HyperSolar To Begin Production On 100 Hydrogen Generation Units For Demonstration 6/15/2020

    HyperSolar, Inc. (OTC:HYSR), the developer of a breakthrough technology to produce renewable hydrogen using sunlight and water, today announced it is prepared to begin manufacturing the first series of its GEN 1 hydrogen panels for demonstration, as the last necessary tests on essential components have been completed

33. SDK Group Completes Expansion Of Lines To Produce Vinyl Ester Resin And Synthetic Resin Emulsion In Shanghai 6/15/2020

    Showa Denko (SDK) expanded production lines to produce vinyl ester resin (VE) and synthetic resin emulsion (EM) in the premises of Shanghai Showa Highpolymer Co., Ltd. (SSHP), a Chinese subsidiary of SDK, and has increased production of VE and EM there, aiming to expand the Showa Denko Group’s functional resin business in China.

34. Sinopec Completes Installation Of The World's Largest Hydrogenation Reactor 6/12/2020

    China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation (HKG: 0386, "Sinopec"), China's leading energy and chemical company, has successfully installed the world's first and largest slurry-bed residue hydrogenation reactor of 3,000 tonnage in 15 hours on June 10 in Zhoushan, China, setting China's new record of highest integral hoisting weight by a single equipment.

35. EcoCatalytic Successfully Scales Up New Ethylene Production Process That Reduces CO₂ Emissions By Over 80% 6/11/2020

    EcoCatalytic Inc. has successfully scaled-up a new, lower environmental footprint process for the production of a key petrochemical building block. Commercialized, EcoCatalytic’s new process will reduce CO2 emissions for ethylene production by over 80% compared to conventional steam cracking

36. Mitsui Chemicals Group Launches First European Production Site For PP Compounds 6/11/2020

    Mitsui Chemicals, Inc. (Tokyo: 4183; President & CEO: HASHIMOTO Osamu) and Prime Polymer Co., Ltd. (President: FUJIMOTO Kensuke; owned 65 percent by Mitsui Chemicals and 35 percent by Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd.) have launched operations at Mitsui Prime Advanced Composites Europe B.V. (ACE), a joint venture first established in June 2018 with Mitsui & Co., Ltd. (Tokyo: 8031; President & CEO: YASUNAGA Tatsuo).

37. From Plants To Plastics: Bringing A Next-Generation Sustainable Plastic To The Market 6/10/2020

    Worley has been awarded a FEED (front-end engineering design) to develop Avantium’s flagship plant that will support the transition to a bio-based economy for plastics. The plant will produce 100% plant-based FDCA (furandicarboxylic acid) – a key building block for many chemicals and plastics

38. New Digital Twin Technology To Minimize Process Engineering Waste 6/10/2020

    KBC (A Yokogawa Company) announces the release of Petro-SIM® 7.1 digital twin technology. This release extends Petro-SIM's scope of application, improves usability and expands its digital capabilities as an end-to-end integrated asset model for production management, asset performance management, and supply chain optimization

39. Petrofac To Support Leading UK CCS And Hydrogen Project 6/10/2020

    Petrofac’s Engineering and Production Services (EPS) business announces today it has been awarded an Engineering and Project Management Office support contract for the Acorn project

40. Construction Of World-Scale Propane Dehydrogenation Plant In Kallo, Belgium: Important Project Milestone Reached 6/9/2020

    Today marks an important milestone in the construction of Borealis’ world-scale propane dehydrogenation (PDH) plant in Kallo, Belgium: the propylene splitter, one of the largest appliances ever delivered to the port of Antwerp in one piece by ship, was successfully transported from the quay to the Borealis site in Kallo