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Maire announces Nextchem’s acquisition of two electrochemistry firms

MAIRE (Milan, Italy) has announced that NEXTCHEM (Sustainable Technology Solutions), through its subsidiary NextChem Tech, has signed a binding agreement to acquire 80% of HyDEP S.r.l. and 100% of Dragoni Group S.r.l. Both Italian based, HyDEP and Dragoni Group are…

Perstorp commissions new plant in India for Penta chemicals

Perstorp AB (Malmö, Sweden) has built and commissioned a state-of-the-art, ISCC Plus certified, plant in western India to meet growing market demand for Penta chemicals. Located in Sayakha, Bharuch, in the state of Gujarat, the facility was officially inaugurated on…

Evonik partners with the University of Mainz to commercialize a new class of PEG lipids

Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany) and the University Mainz have signed a license agreement to commercialize randomized polyethylene glycols (rPEGs), a new class of PEGs. Evonik intends to use rPEGs for its platform of specialized lipids and commercialize the excipients…

Usalco completes significant expansion of polyaluminum chloride capacity in Tennessee

Usalco, LLC (Baltimore, Md.) has completed an expansion to increase polyaluminum chloride capacity in Chattanooga, Tennessee. With this upgrade, the company will be able to increase the availability of its specialty water treatment products for customers throughout the Southeastern United…

Topsoe technology selected for ammonia-to-hydrogen conversion project in South Korea

Topsoe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark) has signed an engineering agreement with Approtium to convert low-carbon ammonia into hydrogen using its H2RETAKE technology. Approtium plans to build an ammonia cracking plant to produce 75,000 metric tons of low-carbon hydrogen annually. The plant…

SABIC and Fujian Energy and Petrochemical Group announce groundbreaking for joint petrochemicals project

SABIC (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) and Fujian Energy and Petrochemical Group Co. Ltd. (Fujian Energy Petrochemical) held a groundbreaking ceremony to mark the start of full execution and construction phase of SABIC Fujian Petrochemical Complex (Sino-Saudi Gulei Ethylene Complex Project) in…

ABB to acquire asset-management firm SEAM Group

ABB, Inc. (Zurich, Switzerland) announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire SEAM Group, a major provider of energized asset management and advisory services to clients across industrial and commercial building markets. The acquisition will complement ABB’s Electrification…

QatarEnergy announces groundbreaking of Ras Laffan Petrochemical Complex

QatarEnergy announced that an official groundbreaking ceremony kicked off construction of the Ras Laffan Petrochemical Complex, one of the largest manufacturing complexes in the world. The complex will house an ethane cracker with a capacity of 2.1 million tons per…

GEA heat pumps to capture heat from wastewater-treatment effluent for residential heating project

GEA Group (Düsseldorf, Germany) announced that it is supplying two heat pumps to help the city of Lemgo on its way to achieving climate neutrality by 2035. The GEA technology will generate heat from the effluent of the city's wastewater…

Air Liquide announces €50-million investment in new nitrogen plant in Singapore, plant revamp in New York

Air Liquide S.A. (Paris) announced an investment of over €50 million to build a new innovative plant in Singapore and revamp its existing facilities in Malta, New York, supplying high-purity nitrogen to GlobalFoundries (GF). These Air Liquide projects will enable…