World's largest pilot plant for the production of "green" hydrogen at the voestalpine site in Linz, Austria. Capacity of 6 megawatts: the most effective and advanced plant of its type plant is scheduled to be fully operational by spring 2019.

Borealis, announces a new round of investments in its melamine and fertilizer production facilities in Linz, Austria.

BASF pursues a significant capacity expansion of the integrated ethylene oxide complex at its Verbund site in Antwerp, Belgium. The project includes capacity expansions for ethylene oxide and for several downstream derivatives, such as surfactants.

This would represent a second ENB asset for INEOS joining the existing production unit in Antwerp Belgium, itself the subject of a recently announced capacity expansion due to be complete by late 2019.

Estonian petrochemicals manufacturer Novotrade Invest has announced plans to build an oil waste processing plant in Kohtla-Järve, the first of its kind in the country.

As part of the joint venture Elme Messer Gaas, Messer and the BLRT Grupp, have invested around five million euros in a new oxygen production plant in Järvakandi, Estonia.

Gasum Ltd has awarded Pöyry with the engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) services assignment for Topinoja biogas plant expansion project in Turku, Finland. The work will be carried out between May 2018 and June 2019.

The production capacity will be expanded to ensure Kemira’s ability to address the growing need for sodium hydroxide in Finland.

Modernizing production of PBR rubber in Triunfo, Brazil, and NBR rubber in La Wantzenau, France. Investments of EUR mid double-digit million will be completed in 2020. Enhancing the company’s global market position. Strengthening its position for key rubber grades

New 50,000 tonnes ABS production line is planned to be operational in 2020. New European ABS production setup allows for production of a broad ABS portfolio to meet growing customer demand for ABS products.

This investment secures the long term position of the site and increases its competitiveness

The project will take place in several steps over the next five years and will raise total capacity by up to 50%, supporting growth of customers that use chloromethanes in the manufacture of products such as pharmaceuticals.

Plant was built through a joint venture of MOL Group and the JSR Corporation. Synthetic rubber (S-SBR) is one of the most innovative raw materials for safe and fuel efficient tires. Feedstock material to the new plant will be secured from MOL’s butadiene extraction unit

Toray Industries announced that it has decided to construct a new PPS compound production facility at the Hungarian site of its U.S subsidiary Zoltek Companies, Inc. It is Toray’s first resin compound production facility in Europe and is expected to start operations in March, 2018 with 3,000 tons annual production capacity.

Gives Takeda in-house production capacity to meet global demand for NINLARO® (ixazomib). Puts Drug Substance, Drug Product, Packaging and Quality Control all under one roof. Expected to become operational in the second half of 2018

Successful exploration at the Tara zinc mine in Ireland has identified a new mineralisation with an inferred mineral resource of 10 Mtonnes. Boliden has decided to expand the mine’s tailings dam and launch a programme to extend the life-of-mine.

Aquafil to provide R&D collaboration and development funding; gains option for commercial plant to create sustainable caprolactam, a key ingredient to producing 100 percent sustainable nylon

Solvay inaugurates the new energy-efficient gas turbine at its soda ash plant in Rosignano, Italy, securing current production capacity and long-term competitiveness on local and export markets.

The plant will build upon the state-of-the-art and proprietary production technologies developed to meet the highest automotive performance and quality standards. The first phase of this investment is included in the € 660 million programme announced earlier this year and is due to start deliveries in late 2020.

Poligal, the manufacturer of biaxially oriented polypropylene (BOPP) and cast polypropylene (CPP) film, announces the start up of its new plant in Poland, a project with an investment of 40 million euros in its new BOPP film extrusion line.

As is public knowledge, Indorama Ventures acquired the assets of ARTLANT’s 700.000 tonne PTA unit, located in ZILS – Sines Industrial and Logistic Zone, in Sines, Portugal. Indorama Ventures is the number 1 Thai Company with 70 sites in 4 continents and is the number 1 global integrated PET producer with 20% of the world market share. The new owners of the site in ZILS, will start maintenance works in January 2018 and expect to start production in the second half of 2018.

The Ellalink project, linking Latin America to Europe, sets the European entry station of the submarine cable, with over 10,000km, in the Business Center of the Industrial and Logistics Zone of Sines (ZILS). ZILS sets forth the ability to accommodate investment projects from different sorts of economic activities. The submarine cable will expand communication between Europe and Latin America.

More than EUR 300 million have been invested by Slovnaft in the new production unit and its components Low density polyethylene production capacity will reach 220,000 tons per annum. The contractor was a Maire Tecnimont Group, Italy. After successful technology testing, start-up and guarantee testing, commercial production will start in early 2016.

The plant to be built in Strazske, Slovak Republic, will deliver 55,000 metric tons per year of cost-competitive cellulosic ethanol while using non-food biomass as its feedstock.

The chemical, basic and energetic industries in Huelva employed 9,558 workers between direct, indirect and induced. The president of “Junta de Andalucía”, Susana Díaz, took part into the presentation of the AIQBE 2017 Memories, in FOE’s (Federación Onubense de Empresarios) building. AIQBE associates invested 253.4 million € in 2017, a 33.6% increase over the previous year.

When completed in 2020, this project will mark the world's first conversion of an HF alkylation unit to solid bed technology. With the conversion to Detal-Plus technology, the plant's capacity will increase by 50,000 metric tons to 250,000 metric tons of LAB per year.

AkzoNobel has broken ground for a revolutionary demonstration plant to showcase a sustainable technology platform for producing ethylene amines and their derivatives from ethylene oxide. Located Stenungsund, Sweden,

EUR 4 million to respond to increasing demand for electricity newly expanded high voltage (HV) in electrical testing facilities at the Borealis Innovation Centre in Stenungsund, Sweden.

CALORIC has won the international tender for engineering and construction of a biomethanation pilot & demonstration plant in Solothurn, Switzerland. For the methanation of carbon dioxide and hydrogen, microorganisms are used as biocatalyst.

Investments of 3 billion Swiss francs in modern research infrastructure, attractive workplaces and sustainable site development

Avantium N.V. has started construction of a new demonstration plant that will help advance the production of bio-based mono-ethylene glycol (MEG) made directly from renewable sugars.

The new company will be Mitsui Chemicals’ first European production base for polypropylene (PP) compounds in response to growing global demand for automotive-use PP, it is scheduled to start operations in June 2020.

A MOU has been signed with an as yet unnamed commercial partner and FEED studies have commenced.

New “Polymer Innovation Center” now operational for pilot-plant scale manufacturing of new PAEK polymers. A milestone in Victrex´s ongoing and intensive program of pioneering research and development