
Chemical recycling through pyrolysis
Dan Nienhauser, Stellar3, USA, explains how waste plastics can be transformed into valuable petrochemical outputs.
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MAIRE has announced that its subsidiary, Tecnimont, has been awarded an EPCC contract for a new linear alkyl benzene (LAB) plant.

Emerson has been selected by multinational chemical company LyondellBasell to modernise control systems and software at its Wesseling complex in Germany.

China is set to register the highest polyethylene terephthalate (PET) capacity additions globally by 2028, contributing about 40% of the total capacity additions from new plant and expansion projects, according to GlobalData.

ADNOC has announced that it has formally closed the acquisition of a 24.9% shareholding in OMV AG (OMV), a global energy and chemicals group.

Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (MOL) and Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd. have announced the joint start of a demonstration test on the recycling of used plastic waste generated aboard a very large crude carrier (VLCC).

Lummus Technology has announced a contract award from Hyundai Engineering & Construction Co. Ltd. to provide ethylene cracking heaters at SATORP’s Amiral petrochemical complex in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

LyondellBasell has acquired mechanical recycling assets containing rigid plastics recycling processing lines from PreZero.

Lummus Technology, a global provider of process technologies and value-driven energy solutions has announced an integrated technology award from BAYEGAN.

QatarEnergy and Chevron Phillips Chemical (CPChem) have celebrated the commencement of construction of a US$6 billion integrated polymers complex in Ras Laffan Industrial City, Qatar.