Saipem SpA (Milan, Italy; www.saipem.com) has successfully launched the fourth and final experimental phase of the pilot plant for CO₂ capture, which is part of the European ACCSESS project involving Saipem’s proprietary CO2 capture technology “CO2 Solutions”. Saipem is one…
Topsoe (Lyngby, Denmark; www.topsoe.com), a leading global provider of advanced technology and solutions for the energy transition, has inaugurated its first – and Europe’s largest – solid oxide electrolyzer cell (SOEC) stack manufacturing facility in Denmark. The electrolyzer stacks will…
Plug Power Inc. (Slingerlands, N.Y.; www.plugpower.com), a global leader in comprehensive hydrogen solutions for the hydrogen economy, announced Oct. 30 the execution of a binding supply agreement with Allied Biofuels FE LLC (ABF; Perth, Australia; www.alliedbiofuels.com) for up to 2…
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI; Tokyo, Japan; www.mhi.com) and Nippon Shokubai Co., Ltd. (Osaka, Japan; www.shokubai.co.jp) have received approval for their jointly submitted proposal to Japan's New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) for its "Development of Technologies for…
Evonik (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) announced today the successful trial production of the second polyamides reactor at its Shanghai, China site. The achievement paves the way to doubling Evonik’s long-chain polyamides production capacity in Asia, and strengthening the company’s market-leading role…
Chevron Lummus Global (CLG; Houston, Tex.; www.chevronlummus.com) announced an agreement that will enhance CLG's catalyst business by reshaping how it develops, sells and supports a portion of the Advanced Refining Technologies (ART or ART Hydroprocessing™) catalyst portfolio. A premier provider…
Decarbonizing industrial process heat is challenging. Heat pumps offer a path to convert previously unused waste heat into low-carbon steam Industrial operations are notoriously difficult to decarbonize, but a project currently underway in Germany illustrates that there are viable pathways…
Plant Watch World-scale black pellet plant begins commercial operation in Vietnam October 14, 2025 — Idemitsu Kosan Co. (Tokyo; www.idemitsu.com) has commenced commercial operation of its newly constructed plant in Gia Lai Province, Vietnam, to produce black pellets (BP), a…
BASF (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) today announces the construction of a state-of-the-art electronic-grade ammonium hydroxide (NH4OH EG) plant in Ludwigshafen, Germany, in support of wafer cleaning, etching and other precision processes in semiconductor manufacturing. This critical ultra-pure chemical will support the…
SandboxAQ (Palo Alto, Calif.) today announced the release of AQCat25-EV2, a novel quantitative AI model trained on the AQCat25 dataset, representing an advancement in computational catalyst discovery. AQCat25-EV2 enables researchers to accelerate the discovery of catalysts for applications in energy,…