MOL Group (Budapest, Hungary; www.molgroup.info) is expanding the Szarvas Biogas Plant with a biomethane unit. As a result of the development, the plant is able to produce biomethane from biogas of such purity that it can be fed into the…
Platinum demand will again exceed supply in 2026, driven by firm industrial use and constrained mine output. Ruthenium and iridium will also be in deficit, with rising demand from the data storage and energy transition sectors, according to Johnson Matthey’s…
Aternium, Inc. (Wilmington, Del.; www.aternium.com) is pleased to announce a critical partner for its Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) study for a clean hydrogen production facility. This milestone marks a significant step forward in Aternium’s mission to drive innovation and sustainability…
North Sea Port (Ghent, Belgium; www.northseaport.com) announced that LanzaTech Global, Inc. (Skokie, Ill.; www.lanzatech.com), a member of the FLITE (Fuel via Low carbon Integrated Technology from Ethanol) consortium, has selected North Sea Port, Ghent, Belgium as the permanent site for…
Worley (Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; www.worley.com) has been awarded an engineering and design services contract by Orbia Fluor & Energy Materials (Waltham, Mass.; www.orbia-fem.com) to support the development of a lithium hexafluorophosphate (LiPF₆) production facility at Orbia’s site in…
Materials company UPM (Helsinki, Finland; www.upm.com) today announced that it has reached an agreement with Avantium N.V. (Amsterdam, the Netherlands; www.avantium.com) to acquire the intellectual property related to Avantium's Ray Technology®, a process for the production of bio-based mono-ethylene glycol…
Technip Energies (Nanterre, France; www.ten.com) successfully completed the Shell Skyline project at Shell Chemicals Park Moerdijk, Netherlands, modernizing the 16 oldest ethane furnaces of the steam cracker. The Engineering, Procurement and module Fabrication contract consisted in doubling the capacity of…
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Evonik (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) and Imubit (Houston, Tex.; www.imubit.com) started a pilot collaboration to evaluate advanced industrial artificial intelligence (AI) applications within Evonik’s facility in Singapore. The open-loop pilot will assess model-driven insights to support operating strategy execution in a…
Overall economic sentiment for U.S. chemical manufacturers rose in Q1 2026, with several indexes reaching their highest levels since the survey’s inception back in Q1 2023, according to the American Chemistry Council’s (ACC; Washington, D.C.; www.americanchemistry.com) latest Chemical Manufacturing Economic…