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Linde to increase U.S. helium supply with new processing plant in Texas

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 acquires metal-organic framework specialist Mosaic Materials

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 to upgrade Europe’s largest mineral-wool manufacturing site

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.…

Solvay to begin production of new solvent at Melle site

Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium) announced the production of its new solvent, Rhodiasolv IRIS, which has beneficial eco-friendly properties. Previously manufactured in China, this solvent will now be produced from 2023 onwards at Solvay's Melle site in France. Rhodiasolv IRIS is efficient, non-flammable, readily…

Linde signs supply agreement with space-launch firm

Linde plc (Guildford, U.K.) announced it has signed another long-term agreement with a major space launch company in Florida for the supply of bulk industrial gases. Linde will supply the customer with liquid oxygen and nitrogen from its air separation…

LyondellBasell to exit petroleum refining sector with sale of Houston Refinery

LyondellBasell (Rotterdam, the Netherlands) announced its decision to cease operation of its Houston Refinery no later than December 31, 2023. In the interim, the Company will continue serving the fuels market, which is expected to remain strong in the near-term,…

Dow announces global alkoxylation capacity expansion

Dow (Midland, Mich.) announced plans to expand its global alkoxylation capacity in the U.S. and Europe to meet increasing demand across a wide range of fast-growing end-markets where the Company is delivering 10% to 15% annual growth rates, from home…

KBR awarded maintenance services contract for Satorp refinery

KBR, Inc. (Houston) announced that it has been awarded a 7-year contract with an option to extend for another 3 years, for the provision of General Maintenance Services (GMS) by Saudi Aramco TOTAL Refining and Petrochemical Company (SATORP), for its…

Royal DSM to sell Protective Materials business to Avient for €1.44 billion

Royal DSM N.V. (Herleen, the Netherlands) has reached an agreement to sell its Protective Materials business to Avient Corp. (Cleveland, Ohio) for an Enterprise Value of €1.44 billion. The proposed transaction includes all of DSM’s Protective Materials activities, chiefly consisting…

Thermo Fisher opens bioprocessing manufacturing facility in Ogden, Utah

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (Waltham, Mass.) announced the opening of its new single-use technology manufacturing site in Ogden, Utah. The state-of-the-art facility creates additional capacity to produce the high-quality technology and materials needed for the development of new vaccines and…