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DuPont Sustainable Solutions acquires Boston-based ESG consulting firm

DuPont Sustainable Solutions (DSS) announced that KKS Advisors (Boston, Mass.), a leading global Environment, Social, Governance (ESG) consulting firm will join DSS. With this acquisition, which was effective June 30, DSS adds to its offerings new intellectual property (IP), methodologies,…

Haldor Topsoe to build catalyst plant in Texas

Haldor Topsoe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark) will build a 15,000-ton/yr hydroprocessing-catalyst plant at the company’s existing Bayport production site in Pasadena, Harris County, Texas. The plant will increase production capacity of Topsoe’s TK catalyst family to meet increasing demand, both in…

Shell joins Norway’s Aukra Hydrogen Hub

Aker Clean Hydrogen and CapeOmega have signed a Memorandum of Understanding with AS Norske Shell to explore opportunities to develop the Aukra Hydrogen Hub to a large-scale production facility for clean hydrogen using natural gas from the local gas processing…

Adnoc joins Japanese firms to develop blue ammonia production

The Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) announced participation in a joint study agreement (JSA) with two Japanese companies – INPEX Corporation (INPEX), JERA Co., Inc. (JERA), and a government agency, the Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation (JOGMEC)…

Repsol to build two new polymers plants in Portugal

Repsol S.A. (Madrid, Spain) announced that it will build two polymer materials plants at its Sines Industrial Complex (Portugal), representing the largest industrial investment in Portugal in the last ten years, at €657 million. The new materials produced are 100%…

Sasol agrees to sell its sodium cyanide business

Sasol Ltd. (Johannesburg, South Africa) has concluded an agreement to sell its sodium cyanide business to a South African, B-BBEE empowered subsidiary of Draslovka Holding a.s, a Czech-based company specializing in cyanide production, for a consideration of R1.46 billion (around…

Evonik completes construction of Marl polyamide 12 plant

Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany) has announced that construction work on the new polyamide 12 complex at Marl Chemical Park is virtually complete and it will be taken into operation this year. Evonik has invested around half a billion euros…

Nouryon to increase silica production in Sweden

Nouryon (Amsterdam, the Netherlands) plans to invest in its Kromasil manufacturing facility in Bohus, Sweden, to meet the increasing global demand from the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries for high-performing solutions. The investment is expected to double the facility’s existing production…

Air Liquide to construct ASU at Chinese steelmaking site

Air Liquide (Paris) and Jiangsu Shagang Group, the largest private steel enterprise in China and one of top 5 globally, have signed a new long-term agreement for the supply of industrial gases in Zhangjiagang City, Jiangsu Province, China. Air Liquide…

MOL Group and Tatneft to construct rubber bitumen plant in Tartarstan

MOL Group (Budapest, Hungary) and Tatneft (Almetyevsk, Republic of Tartarstan, Russia) have launched a joint project for a rubber bitumen plant in the Republic of Tatarstan. The companies have also agreed to establish a joint venture that, besides manufacturing and…