MOSCOW (MRC) -- Maire Tecnimont signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Indian conglomerate Adani Enterprises Ltd (AEL) to develop green chemistry in India, said the Italian company.
Through its subsidiaries NextChem, Stamicarbon and MET Development (MET DEV), Maire Tecnimont will focus on producing chemicals, ammonia and hydrogen using renewable feedstock.
The initiative will use NextChem and Stamicarbon technologies with MET DEV’s project development and the Adani Group’s infrastructure to jointly develop uses of renewable feedstock in the chemicals value chain. AEL has 14 GW of renewable assets under operation, construction and contracts.
As per MRC, Maire Tecnimont S.p.A. announced that its subsidiary Tecnimont SpA, through its Indian entity Tecnimont Private Limited, has been awarded an EPCC (Engineering, Procurement, Construction and Commissioning) contract by Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL), for the implementation of new Acrylic Acid and Butyl Acrylate Units, for the production of relevant high added value products for the chemical market.
As per MRC, Maire Tecnimont S.p.A. announced that its subsidiaries Tecnimont S.p.A. and KT - Kinetics Technology S.p.A. have signed with SOCAR’s subsidiary Heydar Aliyev Oil Refinery two Engineering, Procurement and Construction contracts, as part of the Modernization and Reconstruction of Heydar Aliyev Oil Refinery in Baku, Azerbaijan. SOCAR is the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan Republic. The overall contracts’ value equals to approximately USD 160 million.
According to MRC's ScanPlast report, Russia's estimated PE consumption totalled 2,220,640 tonnes in 2020, up by 2% year on year. Only shipments of low density polyethylene (LDPE) and high density polyethylene (HDPE) increased. At the same time, polypropylene (PP) shipments to the Russian market reached 1 240,000 tonnes in 2020 (calculated using the formula: production, minus exports, plus imports, exluding producers' inventories as of 1 January, 2020).
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