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Technip Energies launches suite of blue-hydrogen production technologies

Technip Energies (Paris) announces the launch of BlueH2 by T.EN, a full suite of deeply-decarbonized solutions for hydrogen production. Hydrogen is integral to the Energy Transition, and, building on its 50-year track record, Technip Energies is expanding its role into…

Axalta completes expansion of coatings plant in Shanghai

Axalta Coating Systems (Philadelphia, Pa.) has completed the expansion of its waterborne coatings plant in Jiading, Shanghai, China. The expanded site is designed to meet the growing demand for sustainable coating solutions for automotive, commercial vehicle and industrial markets in…

Baker Hughes and Bloom Energy partner on fuel cells and hydrogen power

Baker Hughes (Houston) and Bloom Energy (San Jose, Calif.) have agreed to collaborate on the potential commercialization and deployment of integrated, low carbon power-generation and hydrogen solutions to advance the energy transition. Baker Hughes and Bloom Energy will begin collaborating…

Japanese consortium pursuing hydrogen engine technologies

Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd., Yanmar Power Technology Co., Ltd., and Japan Engine Corporation formed a consortium of Japanese engine manufacturers to pursue joint development of hydrogen fueled marine engines for ocean-going and coastal vessels towards establishing a world-leading position in…

Hanwha Total Petrochemical commissions new polypropylene unit

Total SE (Paris) has announced that its Hanwha Total Petrochemical (HTC) joint venture is commissioning a new polypropylene line at the Daesan integrated refining and petrochemical complex in South Korea, adding a further 60% to its production capacity, which now…

Chevron Phillips to build world-scale 1-hexene plant in Old Ocean, Tex.

Chevron Phillips Chemical L.P. (CP Chem; The Woodlands, Tex.) announced plans to expand its alpha olefins business with a second world-scale unit to produce on-purpose 1-hexene. Expected capacity for the new unit is 266,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr) with…

thyssenkrupp Uhde wins order for low-emission coke oven batteries in China

Thyssenkrupp Uhde GmbH (Dortmund, Germany) has won an order from Sedin Engineering Co., Ltd. to build and supply four new low-emission, stamp-charged coke oven batteries with a total annual capacity of 3.9 million tons for Hohhot Risun China Gas Energy…

Shell sells Puget Sound refinery to HollyFrontier for $350 million

HollyFrontier Corp. (Dallas, Tex.) announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the Puget Sound Refinery, the on-site cogeneration facility and related logistics assets, from Equilon Enterprises LLC d/b/a Shell Oil Products US, a subsidiary of Royal…

BASF to invest in Novartis enzyme-production unit in Austria

BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) has agreed with Sandoz GmbH, a subsidiary of Novartis, to invest at the Kundl/Schaftenau Campus in Austria. This agreement enables BASF to further develop its production footprint for enzymes and biotechnology products. Both parties agreed not…

Axens selected for CPCL Cauvery Basin Refinery Project in India

Chennai Petroleum Corp. Ltd. (CPCL), a group company of Indian Oil Corp. Ltd. (IOCL) has selected Axens (Rueil-Malmaison, France) to supply several advanced technologies for its state-of-the-art 9 MTPA refinery to be set at Cauvery Basin at Nagapattinam in Tamil…