Larsen & Toubro (L&T), an Indian multinational engaged in EPC Projects, Hi-Tech Manufacturing and Services announced it has entered a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with HydrogenPro AS, a Norway-based leading Electrolyzer technology and manufacturing company for partnership to tap the…
Air Liquide announced a longterm agreement to supply ultra-high-purity hydrogen, helium, and carbon dioxide to one of the world’s largest semiconductor manufacturers. Air Liquide plans to invest nearly $60 million (approximately 50 million euros) to build, own and operate onsite plants…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafe, Germany) has expanded the production capacity of its enzymes plant in Ludwigshafen, Germany. Through the expansion of the existing plant, BASF has significantly increased the annual number of feasible fermentation runs. The larger production capacity enables BASF…
Due to strong demand for lithium-ion batteries, and other important markets, Arkema (Colombes, France) has announced that its 35% fluoropolymer capacity increase at its Changshu site in China is now revised upwards to a capacity increase of 50%, with no…
Lanxess AG (Cologne, Germany) is expanding its production capacity for the active ingredient Preventol CMK (chlorocresol) at the Krefeld-Uerdingen, Germany, site by around 50 percent in response to the continuing strong demand for disinfectants and industrial preservation. The specialty chemicals…
Sumitomo Chemical Co. (Tokyo, Japan) has decided to build additional production lines for its liquid crystal polymer (LCP) SUMIKASUPER, which is a super-engineering plastic, at its Ehime Works (Niihama city, Ehime, Japan). In the Sumitomo Chemical Group, LCP is produced…
SOCAR HQ held a ceremony to sign licensing and design agreements for the Fluid Catalytic Cracking (FCC) unit between the Heydar Aliyev Oil Refinery (HAOR) and Axens (Rueil-Malmaison, France) as part of the HAOR Modernization and Reconstruction Project. The ceremony…
Wood plc (Aberdeen, Scotland) has signed an agreement with mineral processing company Green Lithium, to be its Owner’s Engineer to build and operate the U.K.’s first large-scale commercial lithium refinery. The partnership aims to fill the missing link in the…
Veolia Water Technologies, a subsidiary of the Veolia group and leading specialist in water treatment, has invested in the development and construction of a new regeneration and recycling service center with mobile water treatment technologies and assets in Heinsberg, near…
Shell Oil Company, a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell plc, has completed the sale of its interest in Deer Park Refining Limited Partnership, a 50-50 joint venture between Shell Oil Company and P.M.I. Norteamerica, S.A. De C.V. (a subsidiary of…