Nel Hydrogen Electrolyser AS, a fully owned subsidiary of Nel ASA has entered into a technology licensing agreement with Reliance Industries Ltd. (RIL; Mumbai). The agreement provides RIL with an exclusive license for Nel’s alkaline electrolyzers in India and also…
PPG (Pittsburgh, Pa.) announced it will invest $300 million in advanced manufacturing in North America to support increased demand for paints and coatings in the automotive industry. These investments will commence in 2024 and span a four-year period. As part…
Lummus Technology (Houston) and Sumitomo Chemical Co. (Tokyo, Japan) announced two collaboration agreements to license and commercialize the following proprietary technologies: Sumitomo Chemical's proven low-density polyethylene/ethylene vinyl acetate (LDPE/EVA) production technology Sumitomo Chemical's poly methyl methacrylate recycling (rPMMA) technology With…
H.B. Fuller Company (St. Paul, Minn.), the biggest pureplay adhesives company in the world, announced that it has acquired ND Industries Inc., a leading provider of specialty adhesives and fastener locking and sealing solutions serving customers in the automotive, electronics,…
AstraZeneca (Cambridge, U.K.) intends to build a $1.5-billion manufacturing facility in Singapore for antibody drug conjugates (ADCs), enhancing global supply of its ADC portfolio. ADCs are next-generation treatments that deliver highly potent cancer-killing agents directly to cancer cells through a…
Holcim (Zug, Switzerland) hosted a groundbreaking ceremony at its state-of-the-art GO4ZERO plant engineered to produce 2 million tons of net-zero cement per year by 2029 in Obourg, Belgium. With a planned investment of over €500 million, the GO4ZERO project will…
Veolia S.A. (Paris) through its subsidiary SIDEM, will engineer and supply key technology for the Hassyan seawater desalination plant in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE). Commissioned by Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) and ACWA Power, the plant will be…
KBR, Inc. (Houston) announced that it has been awarded a contract by OCI Global (OCI) to design and deploy its proprietary operator training simulator for OCI’s 3,000 metric tons per day Texas Blue Clean Ammonia facility, in Texas. Under the…
Dow, Inc. (Midland, Mich.) announced the start-up of its propylene glycol (PG) capacity expansion at its integrated manufacturing facility in Map Ta Phut, Rayong, Thailand. The low capital intensity, higher-return, incremental investment increases propylene glycol capacity by 80,000 metric tons…
Honeywell International Inc. announced a new naphtha to ethane and propane (NEP) process that will help to improve the efficiency of light olefin production and lower CO2 emissions per metric ton of olefin produced. Ethane and propane are the ideal…