Chemical Engineering
R3 Lithium starts operations to produce lithium carbonate from recycled battery materials
R3 Lithium (Covington, Ga.; www.r3lithium.com) today announced initiation of operations to produce lithium carbonate from 100% recycled battery materials at North America’s first proven commercial-scale lithium carbonate recovery facility in Covington, Georgia. The company, which also announced that it has…
Sasol enters agreement to sell Nitrates business
Sasol, Ltd. (Sandton, South Africa) has entered into a sale agreement with Enaex Africa (Dunkeld, South Africa) for the sale of its Nitrates business, which includes the primary ammonia conversion plants in Secunda and Sasolburg that convert ammonia into feedstock…
Lonza to build large-scale spray-drying facility in Oregon
Lonza, Group AG (Basel, Switzerland) announced plans to further strengthen its significant U.S. presence by constructing a large-scale commercial spray-drying facility in Bend, Oregon. The investment will establish Lonza as the leading contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) provider of…
Moeve and ArcelorMittal form joint platform to develop decarbonization projects
Moeve, S.A. (Madrid, Spain) and ArcelorMittal, S.A. (Luxembourg City, Luxembourg) will combine their expertise in innovation, energy solutions, and industrial capabilities to create a new platform for developing projects that have a direct impact on the competitiveness and sustainability of…
Daikin to supply C4-FN specialty gas to Hitachi Energy for SF6-free high-voltage technologies
Hitachi Energy Ltd. (Zurich, Switzerland) and Daikin Industries, Ltd. (Osaka, Japan) announced an agreement to establish a long-term strategic supply relationship for Hitachi Energy's EconiQ® portfolio of sulfur hexafluoride (SF6)-free high-voltage technologies. As part of the agreement, Daikin Chemical Europe…
Avantium completes commissioning of purification unit at FDCA Flagship Plant
Avantium N.V. (Amsterdam, Netherlands) has successfully completed the commissioning of the purification unit at its FDCA Flagship Plant in Delfzijl, the world's first commercial-scale plant for the production of FDCA (furandicarboxylic acid). With the purification unit now commissioned, all major…
Sony and Aramco sign MoU to advance industrial AI through sensing and edge technologies
Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Atsugi, Japan) and Aramco (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) announced the signing of a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to explore a strategic collaboration aimed at advancing industrial AI capabilities through the application of sensing, AI, and other…
Axens awarded contract for low-sulfur diesel hydrotreater unit in Argentina
Axens S.A. (Rueil-Malmaison, France) has been awarded a contract by YPF S.A. (Buenos Aires, Argentina), a leading integrated downstream energy provider, for the implementation of a 5,000-m³/day low-sulfur diesel hydrotreater (DHT) unit at YPF's (Buenos Aires, Argentina) Industrial Complex in…
Lanxess opens battery laboratory in Germany to accelerate LFP material development
LANXESS AG (Cologne, Germany) is further expanding its business with materials for lithium iron phosphate (LFP) batteries. The specialty chemicals company has opened a new battery laboratory at its Krefeld-Uerdingen site, where it tests and develops battery materials based on…
GEL achieves lithium carbonate purity milestone at U.K.’s United Downs site
Geothermal Engineering Ltd (GEL; Redruth, Cornwall, U.K.) has announced a major technological milestone in the production of lithium onshore in the U.K. In a European first, independent analysis has shown that GEL's lithium carbonate produced from deep geothermal brine now…