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.

Delayed coker unit to convert heavy, higher sulfur residual oil into marine gasoil and diesel. Will help meet demand for cleaner fuel oil required by the International Maritime Organization. Part of initiative to strengthen competitiveness of company’s advantaged facilities in Europe.

Antwerp site part of Covestro’s MDI investment program. Investment of around EUR 300 million. Superior infrastructure and logistics make Antwerp ideal location.

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.

Investments of around EUR 200 million until 2021 in the U.S. (Charleston, El Dorado, Greensboro), Germany (Leverkusen, Krefeld-Uerdingen), France (Épierre) and the United Kingdom (Manchester)

Evaluation of KEM ONE’s industrial site at Saint-Fons (France) for the implementation by CARBIOS of an industrial demonstration plant of its breakthrough technology. TechnipFMC in charge of the engineering study upstream the construction of a demonstration plant

Investments of around EUR 200 million until 2021 in the U.S. (Charleston, El Dorado, Greensboro), Germany (Leverkusen, Krefeld-Uerdingen), France (Épierre) and the United Kingdom (Manchester)

Investments in production capacities at German facilities to be complete in 2019 and 2020

MOL is investing a total of around 1.2 billion euros in the new plant complex. The complex with an annual production capacity of 200,000 tons of polyether polyol is scheduled to go into operation in 2021. It will make MOL the only integrated producer of polyether polyols in Central and Eastern Europe.

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

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.

The new facility is an excellent example of the reindustrialization of an Italian production plant

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

The Group subsidiary PCC MCA produces ultra-pure monochloroacetic acid (MCA) with an annual capacity of 42,000 metric tons, destined to increase to 100,000 metric tons. PCC MCA has hence already established a good position in its European home market with a market share of around 20%. The PCC MCA is one of only three companies worldwide with its own technology for the production of truly top-quality MCA.

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.

INEDITENEPTUNE, an InKemia business group company, from Spain, contracted with aicep Global Parques setting up a biorefinery to produce Class A Advanced Biodiesel at ZILS.

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.

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.

Company has invested around €70 million in this new unit. The unit will produce metaxylene, the raw material used to make polymers

WACKER Biosolution, has begun producing fermentation-generated cystine at its new site in León, Spain. The division has extensively modernized part of the 800 m³ fermentation capacity. In addition, it has built a production line for cystine. Capital spending for the site totals some €30 million.

Boliden invests in increased capacity at the Rönnskär copper smelter. A total of MSEK 350 (approx. € 34 million) will be invested. The commissioning of the new production capacity is expected to take place in the beginning of 2021

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,

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

The project represents an important step for SABIC in its commitment towards a circular economy. SABIC is the first petrochemical company to implement an investment project for the chemical recycling of challenging mixed plastic waste back to the original polymer.

The plant in Waspik, the Netherlands will be the beating heart of the Business Area and home to many of the new colleagues.

Investments of around EUR 200 million until 2021 in the U.S. (Charleston, El Dorado, Greensboro), Germany (Leverkusen, Krefeld-Uerdingen), France (Épierre) and the United Kingdom (Manchester)

Together with the existing plant in Havre De Grace, United States, this investment broadens Solvay’s footprint and strengthens its leadership position in this growing and demanding global market.