Base chemistry

• Borealis invests EUR 4.5 million in steam cracker to increase use of circular raw materials at Porvoo site in Finland
• INEOS to stop ethanol production at Grangemouth, UK site by 2025
• Mura Technology Signs Offtake Agreement with Neste at First Commercial-Scale Site in Teesside, Northeast England
• The final opportunity to prevent Europe from off-shoring its industry, jobs, investments, and emissions - Sir Jim Ratcliffe, Chairman and Founder of INEOS
• Itero receives €5m from EU’s Just Transition Fund for demonstration plant at Brightlands Chemelot, The Netherlands
• Shell's investment in repurposing Energy and Chemicals Park Rheinland in Wesseling, Germany.
• First industrial-scale demonstrator of a plant producing butadiene from bioethanol inaugurated at Michelin's site in Bassens, France by Michelin, IFPEN, and Axens
• Hycamite commences construction of Customer Sample Facility in Kokkola Industrial Park, Finland
• Braskem and Shell collaborate to manufacture circular polypropylene using mixed plastic waste
• Cepsa and C2X to Transform Port of Huelva into Europe's Leading Green Methanol Hub
• BASF and Stena Recycling collaborate on recycling electric vehicle batteries in Europe: Stena to pre-treat black mass in Halmstad, Sweden, while BASF refines and recycles it in Schwarzheide, Germany.
• Topsoe Chosen by Essar to Supply Technology for £360 Million Carbon Capture Project in Chester, UK
• Gradual Transformation of Neste's Crude Oil Refinery into a Refining Hub for Renewables and Circular Solutions in Porvoo, Finland
• Europe's Largest Cumene Facility Commences Operations at INEOS Phenol, Significantly Reducing CO2 Emissions in Marl, Germany
• Fire breaks out at Elkem Salten in Norway.
• Closure of Clariant's sunliquid® bioethanol facility in Podari, Romania
• INEOS Aromatics plans to propose the mothballing of one of its PTA plants in Geel, Belgium.
• Mura Technology Launches World’s First Commercial Scale HydroPRS™ Advanced Plastic Recycling Site in Teesside, UK
• Fluor Secures FEED Contract for Sandviken, Sweden's First Industrial-Scale Sodium-Ion Battery Production Facility
• BASF Commences Operation of Expanded Ethylene Oxide and Derivatives Complex at Verbund Site in Antwerp, Belgium
• INEOS Enterprises Completes $245 Million Acquisition of Eramet Titanium & Iron (ETI)
• ANDRITZ to deliver one of Europe's largest green hydrogen plants to Salzgitter at the Salzgitter Flachstahl GmbH site
• Braskem to enhance recycled products by purchasing plastic waste feedstock from Vitol, WPU
• Bilfinger and Reverion sign letter of intent for strategic partnership, introducing new standards for sustainable biogas facilities
• Biokraft doubles its liquefied biomethane (Bio-LNG) production capacity with commissioning of world's largest biomethane liquefaction unit.
• EMR and Northvolt Set Up Electric Vehicle Battery Recycling Facility in Hamburg, Germany
• "Green Methanol for Shipping and Industry Pilot Begins at Leuna Chemical Complex, Germany: Launch of the "Leuna100" Project"
• WACKER Enhances HCl Production for the Semiconductor Industry in Burghausen, Germany
• Li-Cycle Commences Operations at its Inaugural Lithium-Ion Battery Recycling Facility in Magdeburg, Germany, One of Europe's Largest