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Toyo Engineering awarded contract for Angola’s first urea fertilizer plant

 Toyo Engineering Corp. (Tokyo) has been awarded a project to license its proprietary urea technology to Amufert S.A. (Amufert), a joint venture fertilizer company in the Republic of Angola. The project involves the construction of one of the world’s largest…

Accelera to supply electrolyzers for bp’s Lingen green-hydrogen project

Accelera by Cummins, the zero-emissions business segment of Cummins Inc. (Columbus, Ind.), will supply a 100-megawatt (MW) proton exchange membrane (PEM) electrolyzer system for bp's Lingen green-hydrogen project in Germany. This project, bp's largest hydrogen production plant to date, will…

Invista opens $13-million technology hub in Houston

Invista (Wichita, Kan.) has opened the Texas Technology Center (TTC), a $13-million technology hub and research and development center in the Houston metro area. The nearly 40,000-square-foot facility located in Katy, Texas, which Invista first announced in August of last…

Grupa Azoty to begin production of new multi-component fertilizer

Grupa Azoty SA (Tarnów, Poland) is set to begin producing its new multi-component fertilizer – POLIFOSKA Multi S – a product containing 23% sulfur at its Police facilities. This launch marks the latest addition to the company's fertilizer portfolio, joining…

ALPLA opens new manufacturing plant and design center in Thailand

ALPLA Group (Hard, Austria)is increasing its presence in Southeast Asia with the opening of a new plant in Thailand, following a year of construction. In addition to production and administration, the new, 24,000-m2 building in Chachoengsao, near Bangkok, includes a…

Zeeco launches Advanced Research Complex for combustion and pollution-control applications

Zeeco (Broken Arrow, Okla.) has launched the Advanced Research Complex (ARC), the newest addition to its Global Technology Center (GTC), in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. The GTC is also home to the world’s largest industrial-scale combustion research and test facility. Company…

Lummus announces first commercial deployment of new SAP technology

Lummus Technology (Houston) announced an award from SHCCIG Yulin Chemical Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of the SHCCIG Group, for its superabsorbent polymer (SAP) technology. This marks the first commercial deployment of Lummus' SAP technology since it was added to the…

Wood completes comprehensive lifecycle assessment for ADNOC Refining aviation-fuels production

Wood Group plc (Aberdeen, Scotland) has confirmed ADNOC Refining’s capability to produce Lower Carbon Aviation Fuel (LCAF), paving the way for its future alignment with International Civil Aviation Organization’s (ICAO) Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA), once…

Black & Veatch to build battery energy storage system in the U.K.

Black & Veatch (Overland Park, Kan.) has been selected by two U.K.-based companies as the Owner’s Engineer (OE) and Technical Advisor (TA) on battery energy storage solution (BESS) projects that will store up to 200MWh. In 2023, the U.K. government…

ArcelorMittal to build new electrical steel manufacturing plant in Alabama

ArcelorMittal S.A. (Luxembourg) announced that it is proceeding with plans to build an advanced, non-grain-oriented electrical steel (NOES) manufacturing facility in Alabama. The new facility, wholly owned by ArcelorMittal, will be capable of producing up to 150,000 metric tons of…