Valmet will deliver a BioTrac pretreatment system and a BioPower 48 MWth lignin-fired combined heat and power plant for ORLEN Południe's planned second-generation bioethanol plant in Jedlicze, Poland. The plant is due to start operation in 2024. The order value was not disclosed.

Grupa Azoty Zakłady Azotowe Kędzierzyn is installing new syngas compressors to raise ammonia capacity at its Poland plant, a PLN 180 million (about $43.5 million) project with completion expected in H1 2023.

Avantor announced a multi-year investment in global hydration capabilities, including a recently completed expansion of its Gliwice, Poland facility and a multi-stage expansion of its Aurora, Ohio facility due by mid-2022.

Sumika Polymer Compounds Europe is setting up a new Polish subsidiary and a production site of about 5,500 square meters in Poznan. The site will add 30,000 tonnes of compounded polypropylene capacity, with about 30 jobs and production scheduled from Q1 2022.

Johnson Matthey Poland has built a new automotive catalyst factory of about 23,000 square metres in Gliwice, Poland, and plans to hire 400 workers, with recruitment starting in March 2020. The construction cost of the plant was 128 million PLN within a wider 450 million PLN investment begun in 2018.

Polwax plans to commission a solvent deoiling installation at its Silesian plant at the end of 2019, processing about 30,000 tonnes of paraffin slack wax a year to supply its Jaśło site.