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thyssenkrupp Steel concludes first phase of trials for hydrogen into blast furnaces

thyssenkrupp Steel has successfully completed the first phase of hydrogen tests on “Blast Furnace 9” in Duisburg, Germany. In recent months, several tests on one of the 28 tuyères of this blast furnace could be conducted, while complying with corona…

Emerson appoints new CEO

Emerson (St. Louis, Mo.), a global technology and industrial software leader, announced Chief Executive Officer David N. Farr will retire on Feb. 5. Lal Karsanbhai, who has served as executive president of the company’s Automation Solutions business since 2018, will…

Chevron Lummus Global awarded technology contract for NRL refinery expansion

Chevron Lummus Global (CLG), a joint venture between Chevron U.S.A. Inc. and Lummus Technology,  announced that it has been awarded a technology contract by Numaligarh Refinery Limited (NRL) for their refinery expansion project in Numaligah, Golaghat, Assam, India. CLG's scope…

Veolia Water Technologies invests €20 million in German regeneration facility

Veolia Water Technologies (Saint-Maurice, France), a subsidiary of the Veolia group, has invested €20 million in the development and construction of a new regeneration and recycling service center with mobile water-treatment technologies and assets in Heinsberg (near Düsseldorf), Germany. The…

Maire Tecnimont Group and Socar sign two EPC contracts for new-generation refining units in Azerbaijan

Maire Tecnimont S.p.A. (Rome, Italy) says that its subsidiaries Tecnimont S.p.A. and KT - Kinetics Technology S.p.A. have signed with Socar’s (State Oil Company of Azerbaijan Republic) subsidiary Heydar Aliyev Oil Refinery two engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contracts, as…

thyssenkrupp opens Germany’s largest HPP center in Quakenbrück

As planned, Germany's largest center for high-pressure processing (HPP) of foodstuffs has started operations. The approximately 630-m2 facility is located in the Business and Innovation Park Quakenbrück (BIQ) in the direct vicinity of the DIL German Institute for Food Technology…

Hydrogen Forward coalition formed to advance hydrogen in the U.S.

A coalition of 11 companies have partnered to form Hydrogen Forward, an initiative focused on advancing hydrogen development in the United States. The founding members – Air Liquide, Anglo American plc, Bloom Energy, CF Industries, Chart Industries, Cummins Inc., Hyundai,…

Elkem and Vow join forces to build biocarbon plant near Oslo

Elkem (Oslo, Norway) has signed a Letter of Intent (LoI) with Vow ASA (Oslo, Norway)’s wholly owned subsidiary Vow Industries with the aim of reducing fossil CO2-emissions from the production of silicon and ferrosilicon products for the global market.  The…

Solvay and Leonardo launch high-tech composites research lab

Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium) and technology company Leonardo announced the launch of a joint research lab dedicated to the development of novel composite materials and production processes critical for the future of the aerospace industry. This collaboration represents an important milestone in…

International private-equity consortium to acquire DuPont Clean Technologies for $510 million

An international private-equity consortium consisting of BroadPeak Global LP, Asia Green Fund (AGF) and The Saudi Arabian Industrial Investments Company (Dussur) announced that they have signed a definitive agreement whereby the Group will purchase the Clean Technologies business of DuPont…