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Proman and TA’ZIZ secure financing for world-scale methanol plant

The TA’ZIZ Methanol Co., a joint venture between Abu Dhabi Chemicals Derivatives Co. RSC Ltd. (TA’ZIZ) and Proman (Wollerau, Switzerland), announced that it has achieved financial close on $2 billion in financing for the UAE’s first world‑scale methanol plant in…

Covestro implements major energy-efficiency upgrades at Dormagen production site

With the investment in a new steam compressor at its Dormagen site, Covestro AG (Leverkusen, Germany) will reduce its energy consumption in Germany by two percent per year compared to 2025. The company's largest energy efficiency project to date will…

BASF commissions new fermentation plant in Ludwigshafen

BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) announced that its Agricultural Solutions business has commissioned its BioHub, a new fermentation plant for biological and biotechnology-based crop-protection products, at the Ludwigshafen site. With an investment in the high double-digit million-euro range, BASF is strengthening…

Worley selected for St George Mining niobium and rare earths project in Brazil

Worley Ltd. (North Sydney, Australia) has been selected by Australian company St George Mining as feasibility technical advisor for its Araxá niobium and rare earths project in Brazil, led by Worley Consulting Brasil and delivered through Worley’s Brazilian subsidiary, Worley…

IBM and Aramco explore collaboration to accelerate industrial AI and innovation

Aramco (Dhahran, Saudi Arbia) and  IBM (Armonk, N.Y.) announced their intended collaboration on opportunities to advance artificial intelligence, agentic AI, automation, material science and other mutually agreed domains in the industrial sector.  The collaboration builds on a longstanding relationship and…

Air Products to expand gas supply for Samsung Electronics’ semiconductor fab in South Korea

Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.) announced it has been selected by Samsung to supply industrial gases for its new advanced semiconductor fab in Pyeongtaek, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea.   Under the agreement, Air Products will build, own and operate multiple state-of-the-art…

Worley providing cogeneration FEED services for Dow’s Pat2Zero ethylene project in Alberta

Worley Ltd. (North Sydney, Australia) has been selected by Dow (Midland, Mich.) to provide front-end engineering design (FEED) services under a new engineering, procurement, and construction management (EPCM) contract  for the cogeneration component of Dow’s Path2Zero project in Fort Saskatchewan,…

Advansix selects Stamicarbon for proposed expansion of ammonia facility in Virginia

AdvanSix (Parsippany, N.J.) announced it has entered into a process design and licensing agreement to assess expansion of its integrated ammonia platform at its Hopewell, Virginia site to enable the domestic manufacturing of Diesel Exhaust Fluid (DEF), a critical emissions-control…

DOMO Chemicals sells its Engineered Materials business

DOMO Chemicals (Leuna, Germany) announced that an affiliate of Lone Star Fund XII, L.P. has agreed to acquire its Engineered Materials (EM) business. The proposed transaction comprises the full scope of the Engineered Materials business, including three European manufacturing sites…

Air Liquide sells biogas businesses in the U.S., France, Norway and Sweden to Mobius Renewables

Mobius Renewables (Houston) announced the closing of the acquisition of Air Liquide’s biogas production activities in the United States, France, Norway, and Sweden. The acquisition includes six operating landfill gas-to-RNG (Renewable Natural Gas) sites in the U.S., five operating farm…