Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) and N.V. Nederlandse Gasunie held a groundbreaking ceremony for the construction of three new nitrogen plants near Zuidbroek, Groningen. The groundbreaking on March 9 occurred after receiving project approval from The Netherland’s Economic Affairs…
The new orders booked by the members of the VDMA Large Industrial Plant Manufacturers‘ Group group (AGAB; Frankfurt am Main; Germany; www.vdma.org) in 2019 were stable at the previous year's level of €18.3 billion. This means that the companies were…
Metso Corp. (Helsinki, Finland; www.metso.com) has signed a contract for the delivery of a calcining system to a customer in Russia. The order value of approximately €30 million has been booked in Metso’s Q1 2020 orders received. Commissioning of the…
DOMO Chemicals GmbH (Leuna, Germany; www.domochemicals.com) has announced plans for a new state-of-the-art plant in Zhejiang, China. The new plant will be capable of producing 50,000 ton/yr of sustainable and innovative engineered nylon compounds. The company signed a new factory…
Preem (Stockholm, Sweden; www.preem.se) has chosen Haldor Topsoe A/S’s (Lyngby, Denmark; www.topsoe.com) HydroFlex renewable-fuel technology to produce clean renewable diesel and jet fuel at its Gothenburg refinery in Sweden. The 16,000 barrels-per-day (bbl/d) unit will have a yearly production capacity…
The development of renewable energy that is intermittent and decentralized requires the security of the electricity grid through flexible electricity storage capacities, especially in the form of batteries. Total S.A. (Paris France; www.total.com) has launched a battery-based energy storage project…
Fortum Oy (Espoo, Finland; www.fortum.com/batterysolutions), BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com), and Norilsk Nickel Harjavalta Oy (Harjavalta, Finland; www.nornickel.fi) have signed a letter of intent to plan a battery recycling cluster in Harjavalta, Finland, serving the electric vehicle market. This would…
Total SA (Paris, France; www.total.com), through its affiliate Total Solar Distributed Generation, has signed a binding contract to provide 25 megawatt-peak (MWp) of solar rooftops for 24 facilities of one of the largest food companies in Thailand, Betagro. Each one…
Nouryon (Amsterdam, the Netherlands; www.nouryon.com) and INEOS Nitriles have broken ground on new facilities to be built at INEOS’ Köln site in Germany. The units will produce raw materials for Nouryon’s high-quality, readily biodegradable chelates, used in detergents and other…
As automotive electrification continues to evolve, powerful lithium-ion (li-ion) battery architectures are at the center of discussions around electric vehicles. While battery system designs vary by manufacturer, the joint performance objectives for all automotive battery technologies are longer lifetime, operational…