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Chevron and Toyota join forces for hydrogen projects

Chevron U.S.A. Inc. (San Ramon, Calif.), through its Chevron Products Company division (Chevron), and Toyota Motor North America, Inc. (Toyota) announced a memorandum of understanding to explore a strategic alliance to catalyze and lead the development of commercially viable, large-scale…

Avantium pursues beet-sugar-based glycol feedstock with new JV

Sugar beet processor Cosun Beet Company, part of Royal Cosun, and Avantium N.V. (Amsterdam. The Netherlands) announced their ambition to jointly construct and operate the first commercial plant for the production of plant-based glycols using Avantium’s Ray Technology. To this…

Nacero selects Topsoe technology for methane-to-gasoline project in Texas

Haldor Topsoe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark) announced that  Nacero has licensed Topsoe TIGAS technology for its multi-billion USD natural-gas-to-gasoline facility in Penwell, Texas to produce 100,000 barrels per day (bbl/d) of gasoline component ready for blending to U.S. commercial grades.  The…

HTEC and Mitsui collaborate on 5-MW hydrogen electrolysis project in British Columbia

Hydrogen Technology & Energy Corp. (HTEC; Vancouver, B.C., Canada) announced a collaboration with Mitsui & Co. (Canada), Ltd., which is the wholly-owned Canadian subsidiary of Mitsui & Co., Ltd., (Tokyo), to develop a 5.0 megawatt (MW) electrolytic hydrogen production project…

Thyssenkrupp Uhde to build a polyester textile plant for Yürek in Turkey

thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions’ subsidiary Uhde Inventa-Fischer signed a contract to build a new world-scale polymer plant for Yürek Polimer A.S. in Bursa, Turkey. The plant is planned to produce 300 metric tons per day (108,000 tons per year) of PET…

Stamicarbon signs licensing agreement contract for urea plant revamp in Egypt

Stamicarbon BV (Sittard, the Netherlands), the innovation and license company of Maire Tecnimont Group (Rome, Italy), has signed a contract with Abu Qir Fertilizers Co., in Alexandria, Egypt, for the revamp of one of their urea melt plants (known as…

LG Chem to begin producing bio-based polymers at two plants

LG Chem Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea) has obtained ISCC (International Sustainability and Carbon Certification) Plus for bio-balanced products produced from renewable plant-based raw materials such as waste cooking oil and palm oil. LG Chem received ISCC Plus certification on nine…

Evonik starts up lipids supply for Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine manufacture

Helping to accelerate the production of the COVID-19 vaccine from Pfizer-BioNTech, Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany) is delivering first batches of the urgently needed lipids for the mRNA-based vaccine to BioNTech months earlier than planned. Specialists at Evonik’s Hanau site…

Arkema to start up new bio-based polyamide 11 plant in Singapore next year

Arkema (Colombes, France) is on track to begin production of Amino 11 and its flagship Rilsan polyamide 11 high performance polymer at the new plant on Jurong Island, Singapore (photo) in the first half of next year. This plant, for…

Eastman will be host CPI sponsor for 5th Connected Plant Conference

  POWER magazine and Chemical Engineering magazine announce Eastman Chemical as the Host Chemical Process Industries (CPI) Sponsor for the 5th annual Connected Plant Conference HOUSTON, TX, April 21 – The 5th Annual Connected Plant Conference is proud to announce…