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

Investment of 7 million euros in two energy-saving membrane electrolyzers

Consistent implementation of corporate strategy: Boost for distinct specialty chemicals businesses. Significant fumed silica capacity expansion in Europe. Investment sum in the upper double-digit million euro range

INEOS is looking at sites across Europe including Antwerp in Belgium for its new world scale 750,000 tonne PDH plant. INEOS is planning to increase the capacity of its crackers at Grangemouth in Scotland and Rafnes in Norway to over 1 million tonnes each. With these cracker expansions, INEOS will have added up to 900,000 tonnes of ethylene to its overall production capacity “These are three major new projects”, says Jim Ratcliffe, founder and chairman of INEOS. “Collectively, it’s the equivalent of building a new world scale cracker in Europe”.

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.

Kaidi, one of the largest bioenergy actors plans to build a EUR 1 billion biofuel refinery in Kemi. The planned refinery will produce 200,000 tons of biofuels per year, of which 75% will be biodiesel and 25% biogasoline. The second generation biomass plant will use energy wood as the main feedstock and it will be the first of its kind, not only in Finland but globally.

The SEK 250 million-investment (about €26 million) will result in a production of 25 tonnes of silver annually.

The port stakeholders and experts in the supply chain of the Asia Pacific zone have placed their trust again in HAROPA (the 5th port complex on the North-European range composed of Port of Le Havre, Port of Rouen and Ports of Paris): HAROPA received two awards on June 29th: the trophy of “Best Seaport in Europe 2017” and that of “Best Green Port” in Singapore.

Metallurgist Eramet has invested € 34.5 million to adapt its plant in Sandouville to a new supplier of nickel matte. The matte of nickel no longer comes from its subsidiary of New Caledonia SLN but from Finland. As the composition of this matte differs from the preceding, Eramet had to transform its processes.

New Lewabrane ULP line launched for removing micropollutants in water treatment

The new plant will support customer demand and improve security of supply for INEOS plants in Gladbeck and Antwerp. Proprietary Cumene Technology from Badger has been selected

MOL is to invest around USD 2bn in strategic projects in the next five years Free cash flow to fully cover strategy investments and smaller M&As MOL unveils details about the development directions in petrochemicals Consumer Services to generate USD 450-500m EBITDA by 2021, or more than 20% of Group profits In Upstream MOL to spend over USD 2bn organic capex in 2017-2021 and will monitor further reserves replacement opportunities

The Szakoly power plant, which started its activities in 2009, produces electricity from the combustion of woodchips and sawmill by-products. With a capacity of 19.8 MW it produces 130 GWh of electricity per year for the national grid, the equivalent of the annual consumption of 50,000 households in Hungary.

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.

Representing an investment of over €100 million, the Mater-Biotech plant in Bottrighe (Rovigo) will be the world’s first industrial plant dedicated to the production of bio-butanediol (BDO). It will produce 30,000 tonnes/year of low-impact BDO, with savings of more than 50% in terms of CO2 emissions, thus helping achieve a “low carbon society”.

Green Refinery. Biofuel from vegetable oil. A new life for the refinery

The Supervisory Board of PDH Polska S.A., Grupa Azoty’s SPV, approved the Management Board’s recommendation concerning the construction of a polypropylene plant in Police. This is potentially a far more attractive option for Grupa Azoty than production of propylene, which has also been considered. The final decisions are expected to be made in Q4 2017.

LG Chem will build an EV battery plant inside the LG cluster located in Kobierzyce Commune near Wroclaw in southwestern Poland. The plant has a size of 41,300 ㎡ and aims to start production in the 2nd half of 2017

A new 6,000-square-meter (almost 65,000-square-foot) building was erected to house the two lines, which will be used to produce penicillin for intravenous administration. About 80 new jobs are being created at the Santiago de Besteiros plant by the expansion. The total investment is about €17 million.

The launching of the Fuel Storage Park in Sines took place on the 19th December 2016 and the development of the project fully complied with the planned program - on time, on budget and without accidents.

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.

Kemira has started production in its new strength resin plant located in Estella, Spain. The resins produced at the plant are used in tissue, laminate, specialty and packaging as well as food and liquid packaging boards.

Approval for a new Ercros factory in Sabiñánigo,as requested for the expansion of its chlorine production capacity with membrane technology from 15,000 t/year to 45,000 t/year. This will involve an investment of 12 million euros.

AkzoNobel’s Specialty Chemicals business is investing more than €20 million to increase production capacity in Sweden for its Expancel product line for expandable microspheres.

AkzoNobel is to invest more than €10 million in Sweden to expand capacity for its chelated micronutrients, which are used as essential ingredients in the agricultural market.

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

Commercial-scale production of the high-purity renewable platform chemical, 5-Hydroxymethylfurfural (5-HMF) has started at the Biochem-1 facility operated by AVA Biochem in Muttenz, Switzerland. The Swiss-made 5-HMF is made from renewable feedstock and Biochem-1 will, in a first phase, produce up to 20 tonnes 5-HMF per year.

The facility capacity raised to 1.5 million tonnes of fertilizer per year and extraction systems installed. The space has been ergonomically designed for better operation and maintenance. A variety of preventative and repressive measures have been taken. Previously a fairly dusty 120-metre cellar has become a clean, pleasant working environment with up-to-date technical facilities.

Teijin Aramid today announced it is going to expand its aramid production capacity for its Twaron super fiber. It will invest in new spinning technology at the Twaron facility in Emmen, the Netherlands, starting up in the first quarter of 2019.

INEOS is looking at sites across Europe including Antwerp in Belgium for its new world scale 750,000 tonne PDH plant. INEOS is planning to increase the capacity of its crackers at Grangemouth in Scotland and Rafnes in Norway to over 1 million tonnes each. With these cracker expansions, INEOS will have added up to 900,000 tonnes of ethylene to its overall production capacity “These are three major new projects”, says Jim Ratcliffe, founder and chairman of INEOS. “Collectively, it’s the equivalent of building a new world scale cracker in Europe”.

The px group ('px'), the Teesside based infrastructure solutions business, has agreed to acquire the Saltend Industrial Park - near Hull - from BP.