Chemical Engineering
Air Liquide invests 170 million euros to supply ultra-high-purity gases to semiconductor manufacturer in Japan
Air Liquide (Paris, France; www.airliquide.com) today announced a new investment of more than 170 million euros to supply ultra-high purity gases to a leading semiconductor manufacturer in Japan. Under a long-term agreement, the Group will support the expansion of its…
Gen-H Energy and Hycamite sign MoU for power project in Finland based on methane pyrolysis
GEN-H Energy SL (Madrid, Spain; www.gen-h.com) is planning a 200–300-megawatt balancing power project in Kotka, Finland, where electricity will be generated from natural gas without carbon dioxide emissions. Hycamite (Kokkola, Finland; www.hycamite.com) equipment – based on methane pyrolysis – will…
Environmental Controls Can Reduce Operating Costs, Not Just Emissions
For a long time, air-pollution control equipment was budgeted the way a company budgets for fire insurance: a necessary cost with no expectation of a return. That framing is outdated, and for a growing number of manufacturers, it is costing…
Technip Energies awarded contract for development of petrochemical complex in Türkiye
Technip Energies N.V. (Paris, France; www.ten.com) has been awarded contracts by Petkim, a subsidiary of SOCAR, in connection with the development of a proposed integrated petrochemical complex in Aliağa, Türkiye. The contracts include the license for a world-scale mixed-feed ethylene…
Tecnimont USA signs FEED contract with Argent for LNG export facility in Louisiana
MAIRE S.p.A. (Milan, Italy; www.groupmaire.com) announced today that its U.S. subsidiary Tecnimont USA Inc. has signed the Front-End-Engineering Design (FEED) contract with Argent LNG, LLC for the development of Argent's liquefied natural gas (LNG) export facility at Port Fourchon, Louisiana.…
2026 CEPCI updates: July (prelim.) and June (final)
The preliminary value for the CE Plant Cost Index (CEPCI) for July 2026 (most recent available) rose compared to the previous month’s value. The increase continues the upward trend in the CEPCI values that has been observed since September of…
INA’s Rijeka Refinery achieves successful start-up of delayed coker unit
INA-Industrija nafte, d.d. (Zagreb, Croatia) has reached another major milestone at the Rijeka Refinery Upgrade Project. Following the successful achievement of mechanical completion and commissioning, the new Delayed Coker Unit (DCU) has successfully achieved start-up. Following the transfer of operational…
Sulzer’s purification technology starts up at BeyondPoly POE plant in China
Sulzer Ltd. (Winterthur, Switzerland) has delivered its DEVO™ devolatilization technology to BeyondPoly's Version 2.0, 100,000-ton-per-year polyolefin elastomer (POE) plant in China. POE is an increasingly important material used in solar panels, electric vehicles, energy storage systems, and other advanced manufacturing…
Emirates Biotech and UAE University launch integrated organic-waste valorization pilot plant
Emirates Biotech (Dubai, United Arab Emirates) and United Arab Emirates University (UAEU; Al Ain, United Arab Emirates) have launched a joint research project to design, build, and operate the UAE's first integrated organic-waste valorization pilot plant. Mixed food waste streams…
Jacobs extends contract to manage thyssenkrupp Steel’s hydrogen-based direct reduction plant
Jacobs Solutions Inc. (Dallas, Tex.) was selected to extend its role on thyssenkrupp Steel Europe AG's (Duisburg, Germany) direct reduction plant in Duisburg, continuing to provide project management office (PMO), construction management and assembly management services as the hydrogen-capable facility…