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Merck invests €20 million to expand manufacturing capabilities in Japan

EMD Electronics, a business of Merck KGaA (Darmstadt, Germany) announced an investment of €20 million to expand research and development and manufacturing capabilities at its site in Shizuoka, Japan. As part of this plan, new infrastructure will be built to…

Air Products acquires remaining stake in China-based gasification JV

Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.) announced that it has completed the acquisition of the remaining 50 percent equity stake in its gasification technology joint venture (JV) with China Shenhua Coal to Liquid and Chemical Co. Ltd., a subsidiary of China…

Johnson Matthey joins European fuel-cell consortium Immortal

Johnson Matthey plc (JM; London, U.K.) has joined a major new European consortium, ‘IMMORTAL’, to develop higher performance fuel-cell components for heavy duty trucks with a predicted lifetime of at least 30,000 hours, enabling us to take a step closer…

Vulcan Energy starts up pilot plant to demonstrate direct lithium extraction from geothermal brine

Vulcan Energy Resources (Perth, Australia) has designed, built, commissioned, and is now operating a Direct Lithium Extraction (DLE) Pilot Plant to demonstrate lithium extraction from live geothermal brine. The team is focused on demonstrating pre-treatment and DLE processes, as well…

Sasol and Toyota join forces to develop green-hydrogen economy in South Africa

Sasol Ltd. (Johannesburg, South Africa) and Toyota South Africa Motors (TSAM) announced the formation of a partnership to commence exploration of the development of a green hydrogen mobility ecosystem in South Africa.  Underpinning the partnership is Sasol’s broad experience in…

LanzaJet awards EPC contracts to Zeton and Burns & McDonnell for biorefinery fabrication and construction

To enable the aviation industry in its decarbonization efforts, LanzaJet, Inc. (Chicago, Ill.), a leading sustainable fuels technology company and sustainable fuels producer, announced today that it has awarded a fixed-price engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract to Zeton Inc.…

LG Chem starts up capacity expansion for carbon nanotubes

LG Chem Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea) has launched the largest Carbon Nanotube (CNT) manufacturing plant in Korea.  The company is actively targeting the rapidly growing CNT market, widely used as the material for cathodes in electric vehicle batteries.   LG Chem’s…

Grace licenses Unipol polypropylene technology for new facility in Uzbekistan

W R. Grace & Co. (Columbia, Md.) has licensed its UNIPOL PP Process Technology to the new MTO Gas Chemical Complex located in the Bukhara region of Uzbekistan to Enter Engineering. The UNIPOL PP Technology facility is expected to be…

Avantium successfully produces polyesters using plant-based glycols

Avantium N.V. (Amsterdam. The Netherlands) has completed the application validation for its plant-based glycols plantMEG and plantMPG produced in the Ray Technology demonstration plant in Delfzijl. Key applications include polymerization to PEF and PET polyesters and functional fluids used for de-icing and heat transfer. Proving the…

Maire Tecnimont awarded $500-million EPC contract in Saudi Arabia

Maire Tecnimont S.p.A. (Rome, Italy) announced that its subsidiaries Tecnimont S.p.A. and Tecnimont Arabia Limited have been awarded by Advanced Global Investment Company (AGIC) a package related to the Integrated PDH-PP complex project, culminating in the realization of two polypropylene units…