KBR Inc. (Houston, Tex.; www.kbr.com) announced today that its ammonia technology has been selected by KazAzot for Kazakhstan's first world-scale fertilizer complex. KBR will provide a technology license, proprietary engineering design, equipment, and catalyst solutions for KazAzot's 2,000 metric tons per…
Australia’s two largest iron-ore miners and its biggest steelmaker have selected the Kwinana Industrial Area, south of Perth, as the location to develop Australia’s largest ironmaking electric smelting furnace (ESF) pilot plant. The groundbreaking project combines the expertise of BlueScope…
Power2X (Amsterdam, the Netherlands; www.power2x.com) has announced a strategic collaboration with Honeywell (Morris Plains, N.J.; www.honeywell.com) to implement Honeywell UOP’s eFiningTM methanol-to-jet processing technology in Power2X’s eFuels Rotterdam project -- a large-scale production and storage hub for sustainable aviation fuel (eSAF) and synthetic,…
Westlake Innovations, Inc., a subsidiary of Westlake Corporation (Houston, Tex.; www.westlake.com), today announced the company has invested in Universal Matter Inc. (Burlington, Ont.; www.universalmatter.com), a company seeking to become the leading supplier of high-quality and sustainable graphene and advanced materials…
Dow Chemical Co. (Midland, Mich.; www.dow.com) and Innventure (Orlando, Fla.; www.innventure.com), a technology commercialization platform, today announced plans to collaborate to develop and commercialize new waste-to-value technologies. The collaboration aims to enable globally scalable, cost-effective conversion of mixed wastes to…
On this episode of the Chemical Engineering Podcast, CE senior editor Scott Jenkins talks with American Chemistry Council (ACC; Washington, D.C.; www.americanchemistry.com) chief economist Martha Gilchrist-Moore about the ACC's recent 2024 Year-End Situation and Outlook, a recently published collection of economic…
Leading global specialty chemicals innovator Perstorp (Malmö, Sweden; www.perstorp.com) a wholly-owned subsidiary of Malaysia’s PETRONAS Chemicals Group Berhad (PCG), today announced Perstorp Holding AB has acquired 100 percent of the shares of OQ Chemicals Nederland B.V. from OQ Chemicals GmbH…
Aramco (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia; www.aramco.com), one of the world’s leading integrated energy and chemicals companies, has signed a collaboration agreement with Carbon Clean (Houston, Tex.; www.carbonclean.com) and SAMSUNG E&A (Seoul, South Korea; www.samsungena.com) to demonstrate a new carbon capture technology.…
Topsoe (Lyngby, Denmark; www.topsoe.com), a global leader in carbon emission reduction technologies, has been chosen as a technology provider and engineering partner for the Triskelion project, located in Galicia, Spain. The project, owned by the Spanish shipping and chemicals company…
PPG Industries (Pittsburgh, Pa.; www.ppg.com) today announced the completion of an on-site solar installation at its Caivano, Italy facility that will enable progress toward the company’s 2030 greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets. The project is part of a partnership with…