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Técnicas Reunidas awarded contract for $1-billion ammonium complex in Kazakhstan

KAZAZOT, the leading company in the fertilizer industry in Kazakhstan, has selected Técnicas Reunidas S.A. (TR; Madrid, Spain) as the contractor to develop a new ammonium, urea, nitric acid and ammonium nitrate complex. With a total investment of approximately $1 billion, the…

Emerson selected to automate the Middle East’s largest ethane cracker

Emerson (St. Louis, Mo.) will provide automation technologies, software and analytics for the Ras Laffan Petrochemical Complex in Qatar as part of a consortium with Viasat Energy Services, a division of global communications company. The $6 billion integrated polymers project,…

Covestro and Lanxess announce cooperation to reduce carbon footprint for Lower Rhine production sites

Covestro AG (Leverkusen, Germany) and Lanxess AG (Cologne, Germany) are cooperating in the energy-intensive production of basic chemicals at their Lower Rhine sites in Germany and make them more climate friendly. LANXESS sources chlorine, caustic soda and hydrogen from the…

Metso Outotec and thyssenkrupp Uhde sign MoU with Ma’aden for sustainable phosphogypsum processing

Metso Outotec Oy (Helsinki, Finland) and thyssenkrupp Uhde have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Ma’aden in Saudi Arabia for developing a novel circular concept to improve the sustainability of Ma’aden’s phosphate operations.  The aim is to design a…

Liquid Wind selects AFRY for basic engineering work on second e-fuels facility

The Swedish electrofuel developer Liquid Wind (Gothenburg, Sweden) has selected AFRY AB (Stockholm, Sweden) to provide basic engineering for the balance of plant for its second electrofuel facility in Sweden – FlagshipTWO in Sundsvall. Liquid Wind’s ambition, together with Sundsvall…

Sika sells MBCC admixture business to Ineos

Sika AG (Baar, Switzerland) and INEOS Enterprises, a subsidiary of Ineos Ltd. (London), have signed an agreement for the acquisition of MBCC Group’s admixtures business in the US, Canada, Europe, and the UK and its entire operations in Australia and…

Unigel partners with Elessent Clean Technologies for sulfuric acid plant in Brazil

Brazilian chemical maker Unigel RI (Unigel) – one of Latin America's largest chemical companies and Brazil's top manufacturer of nitrogen fertilizers – has contracted with MECS, Inc. (MECS), a subsidiary of Elessent Clean Technologies, for the construction of a new…

Plug Power holds ribbon-cutting for fuel-cell plant in New York

Plug Power Inc. (Latham, N.Y.) recently held a ceremony its new 407,000 square foot fuel cell manufacturing facility in Slingerlands, N.Y., for a ribbon cutting alongside U.S. Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer and New York State Governor Kathy Hochul.…

JERA announces clean ammonia partnerships with Yara and CF Industries

JERA Co., Inc. (Tokyo) has announced a pair of separate partnerships related to clean ammonia production. Firstly, JERA has executed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for potential collaboration for the joint project development and sales & purchase of clean ammonia…

Thyssenkrupp Uhde and ADNOC collaborating on commercial-scale ammonia-cracking projects

thyssenkrupp Uhde and Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. (ADNOC) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to explore a long-term partnership to create new markets for hydrogen and promote global clean energy value chains. The MoU was signed on January…