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POOLING RESOURCES PROCESS INDUSTRY EXPO
BASF, Enerfl ex announce CCUS partnership Achema 2024 reports participation of around 2,800

US-based provider of energy infra- provides a technology exhibitors and over 100,000 visitors
structure and energy transition solu- for capturing CO from
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tions, Enerfl ex, and BASF have entered sources like power plants ver 2,800 exhibitors from 56 balance between ecology, economy, cal solutions. “This will enable both
into a memorandum of understanding and industrial facilities. nations and 106,000 parti- and social aspects. Only successful the process industry and many other
(MoU) to jointly facilitate the com- We have an extensive Ocipants from 141 countries companies will be able to maintain industries that rely on our innovations
mercial scale deployment of carbon and long-standing expe- gathered in Frankfurt, Germany, and create jobs, pay taxes, and achieve to successfully embark on the path to a
capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS) rience in gas treatment, from June 10-14 2024, to participate ecological goals. Our goal must be climate-neutral future”, he added.
applications. contributing to sustain- in Achema 2024, the world’s leading an economically strong Europe. This
ability goals through car- trade show for the process industries will also give the EU political weight, Role of process industry as a driver
The parties will combine Enerfl ex’s bon capture and storage showcasing the latest equipment and which will be more important than for economic growth
expertise in engineering, manufactur- applications,” said Mr. innovative processes for the chemical, ever in the future.” Speaking at the inauguration cere-
ing, and integration of gas processing Fransis Chadikun, Senior pharmaceutical and food processing mony of the event, the German Fede-
and compression systems with BASF’s Vice President, Inter- industries. ‘Innovations in plant engineering ral Minister for Economic Affairs and
proprietary OASE blue technology mediates North America crucial’ Climate Action, Dr. Robert Habeck,
for fl ue gas and post-combustion CO of BASF. Producers of lab equipment and As Chairman of the ACHEMA emphasised the role of the process in-
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capture. processing components, plant en- Committee, Mr. Jürgen Nowicki high- dustry as a driver for economic growth
OASE blue is BASF’s gineering companies, automation lighted that, innovations in the fi eld and social progress. “Chemical and
Enerfl ex’s legacy in gas processing gas treatment technology providers and material developers of apparatus and plant engineering pharmaceutical technology, biotech-
and compression systems spans four with low energy con- exhibited their latest products and are crucial to making the process nology and environmental technologies,
decades and includes over 150 CCUS sumption, low solvent technologies. Exhibitors from Asia industry more sustainable. “Digitali- hold tremendous potential for a
projects capturing fi ve million tons of losses, and a fl exible ope- had a notable presence – the number zation, automation and new materials more sustainable economy”, said the
CO annually. BASF is an established rating range. “It is de- of Indian exhibitors reached 185, offer enormous potential for using re- Minister, followed by examples rang-
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leader in carbon capture technology signed to meet the unique while the Chinese participation this sources more effi ciently and reducing ing from the sustainable production
with over 500 reference plants. The “We offer an excellent suite of gas challenges posed by the contaminants year reached an all-time high with 438 emissions. However, the introduction of everyday amenities to the develop-
MoU is expected to facilitate the deve- treatment solutions under the OASE found in fl ue gas sources from fos- exhibitors. of these technologies requires con- ment of new pharmaceuticals, from
lopment of economic CCUS solutions, brand to support Enerflex and the sil-fuel power plants, steam reformers, siderable investment and therefore energy-effi cient equipment to digita-
paving the way for global decarboni- growing interest in carbon capture boilers, waste incinerators, cement, and No sign of turnaround in Germany close cooperation between indus- lised, yet more effi cient plants.
sation advancements. solutions. With OASE blue, BASF steel industries,” the company said. Speaking at the Achema Opening try, research, politics and the capital
According to Mr. Habeck, Achema’s
Technip and Turner Industries bag ExxonMobil contract Press Conference, Dr. Wolfgang Große market.” innovation topics – digitalisation,
Entrup, Director General of the German
Where this fails, the momentum on sustainability, laboratory technologies,
for US CCUS project chemical industry association (VCI), the subject of sustainability appears to pharmaceuticals, process optimisation,
did not yet see a turnaround in the
German chemical industry despite have slowed – despite all the progress and hydrogen – illustrate the vital
France’s Technip Energies, in sation & Storage (CCUS) system products, including automobile parts, initial signs of an economic recovery: made. “The road to sustainable pro- importance of the process industry for
consortium with Turner Industries, that could condition, compress, and household appliances, and tools and “Our industry’s engine is still far from duction is long and rocky, and there the transformation of economies and
has been awarded the Engineering, transport, for eventual storage, up to machinery. The CCUS system is de- running smoothly. Our companies are must be no standstill. Especially now, societies as a whole. “These themes
Procurement, and Construction 800,000 metric tons per year of CO 2 signed to enable the Nucor facility primarily generating profi ts abroad. when the challenges are greater than are not mere buzzwords but the pillars
(EPC) contract by ExxonMobil Low from a manufacturing plant located to produce DRI with up to 80% less Politicians must not sugar-coat the ever, we must continue to consistently upon which we will build the future,”
Carbon Solutions Onshore Storage in Convent, Louisiana, and owned by greenhouse gas emissions than tradi- situation but take decisive action to drive forward the transition to sustain- said the Minister.
LLC. Technip Energies will over- Nucor Corporation, North America’s tional blast furnace iron production. tackle problems that are largely of able production,” Mr. Nowicki urged.
see the engineering and procurement largest steel producer and recycler. their own making, such as excessive “The exhibitors we spoke to and
while Turner Industries will be res- ExxonMobil selected Technip bureaucracy, high energy prices, and a According to him, the process in- we ourselves are extremely satisfi ed,
ponsible for the construction. The Nucor manufacturing site Energies to perform the Front-End declining willingness to invest.” dustry has proven to be a driving force in some cases there was so much going
produces direct reduced iron (DRI), Engineering Design (FEED), and to- for innovation in recent decades, and is on at the stands that the stand staff
The contract covers ExxonMobil a raw material that is mixed with gether with Turner Industries worked Dr. Entrup also called on the new aware of its responsibility to continue couldn’t keep up. Many of the discus-
Low Carbon Solutions’ plans for the recycled scrap at Nucor steel mills, to solidify the EPC execution ap- EU Commission to reboot industrial investing in research and development sions were directly related to projects
delivery of a Carbon Capture, Utili- which make higher grades of steel proach. policy: “We need to strike the right and to develop pioneering technologi- or investments,” confi rmed Mr. Jürgen

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