Business & Economics
Fluor Corp. awarded FEED contract for aromatics facility in Bahrain
Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.fluor.com) announced today that it has been selected by Gulf Petrochemical Industries Company (GPIC; Sitra, Bahrain; www.gpic.com) to execute the front-end engineering and design for a new aromatics facility located in the Kingdom of Bahrain. The project…
Evonik and Celtic Renewables partner on low-carbon emollient for cosmetics
Evonik (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) is using Celtic Renewables’ (Grangemouth, U.K.; www.celtic-renewables.com) bio-butanol to produce ECOHANCE® Soft BOL, a sustainable emollient for cosmetics and personal care products. Combined with Evonik’s formulation expertise, the result is a final product that meets both performance…
Maire Tecnimont awarded contract for large-scale fertilizer complex in Argentina
MAIRE (Milan, Italy; www.groupmaire.com) announced that its subsidiary Tecnimont (Integrated E&C Solutions) has been awarded a contract by Fértil Pampa S.A.U., a wholly owned subsidiary of Pampa Energia S.A., for a large-scale fertilizer complex in Argentina. The facility will include…
Empower EIT commissions operations and innovation center for direct lithium extraction
Empower EIT (Addison, Tex.; www.empowereit.com), a vertically integrated lithium technology and operating company, has completed the commissioning of its 17,000-square-foot Dallas Operations & Innovation Center as the company targets first commercial sales in 2027. Leveraging its proprietary direct lithium extraction…
DEScycle opens demonstration plant for critical materials recovery from e-waste in U.K.
DEScycle (London, U.K.; www.descycle.com) opened its first demonstration plant at Wilton Centre in Teesside, U.K., marking the first operational deployment of its distributed metals processing infrastructure platform and a significant step towards strengthening the UK’s domestic critical minerals supply chain. …
INEOS and Recuro sign MoU for plastics recycling facility in Norway
INEOS (London, U.K.; www.ineos.com) and Norwegian recycling company Recuro (Alesund, Norway; www.recuro.no) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to develop a state-of-the-art advanced recycling facility at INEOS’ Bamble polymer site in Norway. Once commissioned, the plant will process up…
Texxon Holding polystyrene production facility starts operations in Henan province
Texxon Holding Limited (Shanghai, China; ir.npt-cn.com), a leading provider of supply chain management services in the plastics and chemical industries in East China, today announced that its Henan polystyrene production facility officially commenced operations in June 2026, marking the completion…
Business News: July 2026
Plant Watch Air Liquide starts up CO2-capture pilot unit at Holcim cement facility June 11, 2026 — Air Liquide S.A. (Paris, France; www.airliquide.com) started up its first industrial-scale pilot unit specifically designed for the cement sector, based on its proprietary…
U.S. chemical volumes projected to rise 0.5% in 2026, ACC mid-year report forecasts
ACC’s (Washington, D.C.; www.americanchemistry.com) mid-year assessment of economic conditions was published at the end of last week. Despite the significant disruptions to the global economy, the U.S. economy has remained broadly resilient heading into mid‑2026. While export demand for advantaged…
Hy2gen announces support for renewable hydrogen project from European Hydrogen Bank
Hy2gen Nordic AS, a subsidiary of the global renewable hydrogen producer Hy2gen AG (Weisbaden, Germany; www.hy2gen.com), announced yesterday that its Albatros renewable hydrogen project has been selected for support under the European Hydrogen Bank (EHB), an E.U. financing instrument for…