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Linde and Hyosung partner to develop hydrogen infrastructure in South Korea

Linde plc (Guildford, U.K.) announced today it has partnered with Hyosung Corporation (Hyosung), one of South Korea's largest industrial conglomerates, to build, own and operate extensive new liquid hydrogen infrastructure in South Korea. This robust hydrogen network will support the…

Bilfinger and Umincorp sign letter of intent for plastic recycling facilities

Industrial services provider Bilfinger SE (Mannheim, Germany) and recycling tech company Umincorp have signed a letter of intent for a long-term EPC (engineering, procurement and construction) partnership. The aim is to jointly realize several plastic recycling facilities based on Umincorp’s…

Versalis licenses LDPE-EVA technology for gas-to-chemicals project in Uzbekistan

Versalis S.p.A. (San Donato Milanese), the chemical company of Italian energy major Eni, has licensed to Enter Engineering Pte. Ltd. a Low-Density Polyethylene/Ethyl Vinyl Acetate (LDPE/EVA) swing unit to be built as part of a new Gas-to-Chemical Complex based on…

Lotte Chemical expands production capacity for ethylene oxide adduct

Lotte Chemical Corp. (Seoul, South Korea) expanded the production line for EOA (Ethylene Oxide Adduct), a specialty material for architecture, within its Yeosu Factory. EOA, produced based on ethylene, is an ingredient for concrete water-reducing agent that is used for…

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…