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Haldor Topsoe technology selected for Seaboard Energy renewable-fuels plant in Kansas

Seaboard Energy has chosen Haldor Topsoe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark) HydroFlex renewable fuel technology to produce clean renewable diesel from tallow and soybean oil. The 6,500 barrels-per-day renewable diesel unit is currently under construction at Seaboard Energy’s site in Hugoton, Kansas,…

PPG completes $13-million expansion of Jiading coatings plant

PPG (Pittsburgh, Pa.) announced the completion of a $13 million investment (approximately RMB 84 million) in its Jiading, China paint and coatings facility, including eight new powder coating production lines and an expanded Powder Coatings Technology Center that will further…

Worley wins FEED contract for Liquid Wind eMethanol facility

Liquid Wind (Gothenburg, Sweden) has announced that Worley (North Sydney, Australia)  will provide front-end engineering design (FEED) services for the eMethanol facility which will be constructed in Örnsköldsvik, on the north-east coast of Sweden. They will support the Liquid Wind Consortium to…

Eramet confirms successful lithium extraction from geothermal brine in France

Eramet Group (Paris, France), in partnership with Électricité de Strasbourg (ÉS), has succeeded in extracting lithium from geothermal brine during pilot-scale tests conducted early 2021 at the Rittershoffen geothermal power plant (northern Alsace, France), which has been operated by ÉS…

Everfuel to install 300-MW electrolyzer for green-H2 production at Denmark’s Fredericia refinery

Everfuel A/S (Herning, Denmark) has announced plans for the HySynergy Phase II project, including development of a 300-MW electrolyzer and Power-to-X (PtX) facility adjacent to the Fredericia petroleum refinery located in Fredericia, Denmark . The HySynergy Phase II project involves…

BASF to expand PGM refining and recycling capacities in South Carolina

BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) announced the expansion of its Seneca, South Carolina, Platinum Group Metals (PGM) refining facility. The company will invest double-digit millions in capital improvements to increase refining capacity to recycle precious metals from spent catalysts such as…

Nouryon begins engineering phase for Wisconsin expandable microspheres plant

Nouryon (Amsterdam, the Netherlands) has begun the engineering phase at its Expancel expandable microspheres plant in Wisconsin, moving one step closer to better serving its specialty additives customers in North America. Construction on the plant is expected to begin at…

Elkem commissions battery-materials pilot plant, establishes dedicated battery subsidiary

Elkem (Oslo, Norway)  has successfully commissioned its industrial pilot for battery materials in Kristiansand, Norway, starting industrial scale pilot production for customers. As the next step towards large-scale production, Elkem is now establishing Vianode as a new company and brand…

UOP’s Unionfining diesel technology selected for NRL refinery in India

Honeywell International, Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.) announced that Numaligarh Refinery Limited (NRL), a public sector undertaking under the Indian Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, will use UOP technology to produce cleaner-burning diesel fuel in compliance with India’s BS-VI emission standards…

Alfa Laval partners with EasyMining to develop new waste-utilization processes

Alfa Laval AB (Lund, Sweden) has signed a partner agreement with EasyMining, an innovation company in the Swedish Ragn-Sells Group, to develop new processes and technologies to extract commercially valuable products from waste materials and enable circular solutions.   Alfa…