The electrolysis specialist thyssenkrupp nucera AG & Co. KGaA (Dortmund, Germany) has opened a new office in Perth, Australia. The new facility is planned to have full sales and project-execution capabilities and is ideally located to support the company’s growth…
A new metals production plant opened in Korea today will play a key role in securing the global supply chain for critical minerals and metals products. Australian Strategic Materials Ltd’s (ASM; West Perth, Australia; asm-au.com) Korean Metals Plant is designed…
Evonik Catalysts (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) has opened a new Zero Liquid Discharge (ZLD) plant at its facility in Dombivli, India. The new plant reduces the amount of fresh water required for production processes and turns material that was previously…
Each year since 2001, the Society of Women Engineers (SWE; www.swe.org) has analyzed the research addressing issues related to women in engineering professions. Last month, SWE released a retrospective analysis [1] of what has been learned over the past 20…
Plant Watch ADM announces significant expansions in the U.S. and Germany April 14, 2022 — Archer-Daniels-Midland Co. (ADM; Chicago, Ill.; www.adm.com) will invest approximately $300 million to significantly expand its Decatur, Ill., alternative-protein production plant. The project is expected to…
To lower their climate impact, petroleum refiners are increasingly assessing greenhouse-gas-emission intensities as they consider processing lower-carbon feedstocks. One area of particular activity is sustainable aviation fuels (SAF), where demand growth is accelerating While the oil-and-gas industry has been on…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen) and thyssenkrupp Uhde GmbH (Dortmund, both Germany) achieved measurable improvements in the STAR process, a proprietary dehydrogenation process from thyssenkrupp Uhde that can produce propylene from propane feedstocks, or iso-butylene from iso-butane feedstocks. The technology has been…
The preliminary value for the February 2022 CE Plant Cost Index (the most recent available) was higher than the previous month, continuing the steep monthly increases observed throughout 2021. The upward trend has been driven largely by equipment costs —…
The preliminary value for the February 2022 CE Plant Cost Index (the most recent available) was higher than the previous month, continuing the steep monthly increases observed throughout 2021. The upward trend has been driven largely by equipment costs —…
MOL Group (Budapest, Hungary; www.molgroup.info) acquired ReMat Zrt., a recycler with production plants located in Tiszaújváros and Rakamaz, Hungary, and a logistics hub in Bratislava, Slovakia. ReMat is a market leading plastics recycler in Hungary with an annual processing capacity…