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At the recent World Petrochemicals Conference, SABIC's Vice Chairman and CEO referred to a report that estimated digital transformation could deliver up to half a trillion dollars’ worth of economic benefits to the chemical industry over the next 10 years.

KBR has announced that it has secured a contract from a leading midstream company for a world-scale olefins production facility to be built on the US Gulf Coast.

ExxonMobil has announced that construction of the new linear alpha olefins (LAO) manufacturing unit at its Baytown, Texas, integrated petrochemical complex is targeting commercial start up in mid-2023.

The sixth annual ‘Global Energy Talent Index (GETI)’ has revealed that the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated revolution in ways of working in the petrochemcials sector.

Yokogawa Electric Corp. and JSR Corp. have announced the successful conclusion of a field test in which AI was used to autonomously run a chemical plant for 35 days.

The Merah Putih Catalyst Factory Development Project has been now implemented through various subsidiaries of Pertamina, with the aim of accelerating the production of catalysts to meet Indonesia's domestic industry needs.

ABB has been awarded a major contract by NatureWorks to automate their new greenfield plant in Thailand, converting sugar cane to the polylactic acid biopolymer, Ingeo.

Asahi Kasei has formed a strategic partnership with Genomatica regarding HMD based on biomass-derived raw materials.

SABIC has announced a new collaboration with Kraton to deliver certified renewable butadiene from its TRUCIRCLE portfolio for use in Kraton’s renewable styrenic block copolymers.