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EXPANDING CAPABILITIES PROJECT UPDATE
IFF unveils immersive experience hub at its Singapore Baker Hughes to provide CO compression technology
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innovation centre for Eni’s UK CCS project

American fragrances and fl avours and real-time co-creation – accelerating Baker Hughes has been awarded storage in off shore depleted fi elds several other signifi cant orders in
fi rm, IFF, has added a new ‘Immersive product design alignment, reducing time a contract by Italian engineering fi rm, under Liverpool Bay. the CCS sector, including an award
Experience Hub’ within its innovation to market and boosting customer confi - Saipem, to supply carbon dioxide in 2024 to supply compression and
centre located in Singapore. The multi- dence through lifelike, emotionally (CO ) compression technology for The Liverpool Bay CCS project, power generation equipment to BP
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sensory facility will help IFF experts to engaging experiences,” IFF informed. Eni’s Liverpool Bay Carbon Capture which recently reached fi nancial close, for its integrated Tangguh UCC pro-
work alongside customers to concep- and Storage (CCS) Project in the UK. will operate as the backbone of the ject at its Tangguh LNG plant in
tualise, test, and refi ne product ideas in The new facility complements IFF’s The order was booked in the fi rst HyNet Cluster to transport CO from Papua Barat, Indonesia. This order
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simulated real-world environments. largest dairy and beverage pilot plant quarter of 2025. capture plants across the North West includes three gas turbine generators,
in Southeast Asia, located in the same of England and North Wales through three heat recovery steam generators
“The new space builds on IFF’s $30-mn ports our broader innovation strategy in building – creating a fully integrated As part of the scope, Baker Hughes new and repurposed infrastructure to and one steam turbine generator for
investment in Singapore in 2022, a region expected to drive 60 percent of ecosystem that connects consumer in- will supply three advanced CO cen- safe and permanent storage in Eni’s a 175-MW combined power cycle
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strengthening our position as a strategic global economic growth by 2030.” sights to concept development, applica- trifugal compressor trains with elec- depleted natural gas reservoirs, located plant to supply power for enhanced
innovation hub for Asia,” said Ramon tion and small-scale commercialisation. tric motors, as well as ‘Lufkin Gears’ under the seabed in Liverpool Bay. gas recovery through carbon capture,
Brentan, site leader of the IFF Singapore The hub will integrate ‘360-degree’ gearbox. The full compressor package HyNet is one of the world’s most utilisation and storage (CCUS); and
Innovation Centre and vice president, re- video technology with scent, taste, sound The Singapore hub joins IFF’s net- will be used for the re-injection of the advanced CCS clusters that will signifi - three electric motor driven centrifugal
gional general manager for Greater Asia, and touch to simulate real-world envi- work of immersive spaces around the CO , leveraging Baker Hughes’ expe- cantly contribute to the reduction of compressors to boost feedstock gas
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Scent. “The immersive space transforms ronments. “It will enable virtual tours, world including locations in Florida, rience in CCUS technologies, as part emissions from a wide range of indus- from the off shore fi elds. More recently,
how we engage with customers and sup- contextual tastings, fragrance immersion Shanghai and Bell Works, New Jersey. of Saipem’s conversion of a traditional tries across the North West of England Baker Hughes has also announced a
gas compression and treatment facility and North Wales. strategic partnership with Frontier
BANKING ON RESEARCH at Point of Ayr, in north Wales, into an Infrastructure to accelerate the
Wacker boosts biotech research capabilities with innovative CO electrical compression Baker Hughes’ involvement in the deployment of large-scale CCS and
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station allowing for permanent CO Liverpool Bay CCS Project follows power solutions in the US.
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new Munich centre Eneos and Mitsubishi Chemical complete construction

Germany’s Wacker Chemie has offi - focus will be on processes
cially opened its ‘Wacker Biotechnology for the production of of chemical recycling facility in Japan
Centre’ in Munich. The company has proteins and nucleic acids,
invested a “double-digit million-euro which play an important Japanese fi rms – Eneos Corporation
sum” in the 1,500-square-metre labo- role in developing innova- and Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
ratory and technical competence centre tive therapies involving, for (MCC) – have announced the comple-
and 700 square meters of offi ce space. example, active ingredients tion of a chemical recycling facility
based on messenger ribonu- at MCC’s Ibaraki Plant (Kamisu City,
The centre is integrated into the cleic acid (mRNA). In addi- Ibaraki Prefecture).
Group’s research site in the Munich tion, Wacker will also focus
quarter of Sendling where the company on developing innovative This facility employs a hydro-
has been conducting fundamental re- ingredients for food and thermal plastic recycling technology
search for over a century and, since the have decided to go ahead and invest dietary supplements. “Consolidating bio- (Hydro-PRT) that uses supercritical wa-
1980s, also in biotechnology. The new in this sector – even in economically technological R&D under one roof will ter to chemically break down waste plas-
centre will help keep pace with the ex- challenging times,” noted Wacker’s go a long way in improving the effi ciency tic and then converts it into oil. The tech-
pansion of the biotechnology business. CEO Christian Hartel at the opening of Wacker’s research activities. Apart nology has been made available under a
ceremony. from optimising effi ciency, Wacker is license agreement with UK-based Mura
“The centre will allow us to concen- also keen on reducing the time from lab- Technology. The recycled oil produced petroleum products and various chemi- sustainable products. Once the facility
trate and intensify our biotech research The centre will host Wacker’s re- based research and product development with the technology is used as feedstock cals and plastics, thereby helping to realise is certifi ed, the two companies will be
activities. We see tremendous growth search operations, including methods to to actual implementation,” the company at both companies’ existing refi nery and a circular economy.In addition, this facility able to off er various products made from
potential in this area, which is why we manufacture biopharmaceuticals. The informed. naphtha cracker and reprocessed into plans to obtain ISCC Plus certifi cation for the recycled oil.

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