Evonik Industries (Essen, Germany) has completed the relocation and expansion of its precious metal powder catalyst plant in Shanghai Chemical Industrial Park (SCIP). Production is scheduled to commence in Q4, 2023. Precious metal powder catalysts are widely used in industrial…
Elessent Clean Technologies (Elessent, formerly DuPont Clean Technologies) announced the signing of license and engineering contracts with Trafigura for the construction of a state-of-the-art 125 Sm3/h (18,870 BPSD) IsoTherming diesel hydrotreater at the Bahía Blanca Refinery located in Argentina. The…
Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.) has been chosen by the city of Montreal to supply oxygen equipment to support an ozone generation site that will remove impurities from wastewater at the Jean-R-Marcotte Wastewater Treatment Plant, one of the largest wastewater treatment…
Wastefront (www.wastefront.com) has been granted an environmental permit for their flagship site at the Port of Sunderland. The decision was made Thursday 31 August 2023 by the Environment Agency and clears the way for the next stage in the process,…
AGC (Tokyo) has announced that it succeeded in developing a new production technology for sulfide electrolytes used in all-solid-state batteries. AGC will continue to improve the process for future mass production and the quality of the solid electrolytes for commercialization.…
Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.) announced today that it has agreed to sell its Stork business in Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands and its turbo blading manufacturing operation in the United States to industrial services provider Bilfinger SE (Mannheim, Germany). This divestiture…
RWE has announced that the GET H2 Nukleus hydrogen project has passed an important milestone. The relevant authority in Oldenburg has granted permission for the construction and operation of the first two 100-Megawatt (MW) electrolyzers on the site of the…
Avantium N.V. (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) is building a new plant that will support the transition to bio-based plastics to replace ones that rely on fossil-based raw materials. Located in Delfzijl, The Netherlands, the facility will use a novel technology that…
Pyran, Inc. (Madison, Wisc.) announced that it is expanding sales of 1,5-pentanediol (PDO) to select, pre-approved customers as it has achieved critical milestones necessary to begin operating its world-scale commercial plant for the product in 2026. After securing an additional…
Lummus Technology (Houston) and RWDC Industries, a biotechnology company developing biopolymer material solutions, announced a binding Joint Development and Commercial Cooperation Agreement (JDCCA) to rapidly expand manufacturing and global licensing of polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA). In April, Lummus and RWDC signed a…