Before being fed to the blast furnace, iron ore is first converted into pellets by, for example, a traveling-grate (TG) pelletizing plant. In this plant, so-called green pellets are conveyed through a furnace that heats the pellets to high temperatures…
Last month, Vale S.A. (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; www.vale.com) began construction on the first commercial plant to use its Tecnored process, which produces pig iron with biomass instead of metallurgical coal (coke). Located in Marabá, in the southeast of Pará,…
To lower their climate impact, petroleum refiners are increasingly assessing greenhouse-gas-emission intensities as they consider processing lower-carbon feedstocks. One area of particular activity is sustainable aviation fuels (SAF), where demand growth is accelerating While the oil-and-gas industry has been on…
Industrial gases are critical for a wide range of applications throughout the chemical process industries (CPI). Many of these gases must be separated from others, such as nitrogen from air, or hydrogen from natural gas using physical gas-separation techniques that…
Cabot Corp. (Boston, Ma.) announced the expansion of its Inkjet manufacturing facility in Haverhill, Massachusetts with the addition of a new production line. The expansion will increase the company’s global capacity for color aqueous pigment dispersions and is part of…
Saint-Gobain Ceramics announcds the acquisition of Monofrax LLC from the German fund Callista. Located in Falconer, New York , Monofrax offers a wide range of fused cast refractories in various product chemistries. These materials are successfully used for glass melting, steel reheat, electrolytic…
Covestro AG (Leverkusen, Germany) is expanding its production capacities for thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) Films in the Platilon range, as well as the associated infrastructure and logistics. To this end, the company is investing a low double-digit million euro amount in…
Linde plc (Woking, U.K.) announced it has signed a new long-term helium off-take agreement to recover the helium contained in Freeport LNG's production site in Texas. Linde will also construct a new helium processing plant in Freeport to purify and…
Baker Hughes (Houston) has acquired Mosaic Materials Inc. to further develop and scale its next-generation capture technology for carbon dioxide (CO2) reduction from stationary sources and CO2 removal (CDR) from the atmosphere. Mosaic’s metal-organic framework (MOF) technology is a proprietary…
Saint-Gobain (Courbevoie, France) announced that its ISOVER plant in Orange (France), Europe's largest mineral wool manufacturing site, will benefit from a €15 million investment to rebuild its furnace in 2023. Saint Gobain previously announced investment to increase ISOVER’s production capacity.…