Saint-Gobain Ceramics, through its subsidiary Saint-Gobain NorPro, announced its intent to build a new manufacturing facility in Wheatfield, New York. The facility will revitalize an historic industrial property as the company expands its production of catalyst carriers to serve a…
Momentive Performance Materials Group (Momentive; Niskayuna, N.Y.) and Jiangxi Hungpai Material Co., Ltd. (Hungpai), a silicon-based research and manufacturing leader in China, announced the signing of a definitive agreement to establish a joint venture (JV) focused on the manufacturing, promotion,…
Huntsman Corp. (The Woodlands, Tex.) has announced it will collaborate with Advanced Material Development Ltd. (AMD), a leading nanomaterials business, through a strategic relationship to develop carbon nanotube-integrated functional composite materials in the United States. The collaboration will allow for…
Toyo Engineering Corp. (Tokyo) has been awarded an engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) contract by Nippon Shokubai Ltd. (Osaka, Japan) for a new lithium-ion battery electrolyte production plant in Fukuoka, Japan. The project is scheduled for completion in 2027and will…
Honeywell International, Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.) announced that Blue Spruce Operating, LLC will use Honeywell’s carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) technologies to increase the domestic production of helium at its Dry Piney Helium & Carbon Sequestration Project in Sublette County, Wyoming.…
REOLUM, a Spanish company specialized in innovative solutions for decarbonization and energy transition, has awarded a consortium formed by Técnicas Reunidas S.A. (TR; Madrid, Spain) and Siemens Energy AG (Munich, Germany) the Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) of the La Robla…
Solvay (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com) is taking another decisive step to phase out coal at its soda ash and bicarbonate plants with a new energy transition project in Torrelavega, Spain, aiming to nearly halve CO2 emissions by 2027 1 and ensure…
Chiyoda Corp. (Yokohama, Japan) has been awarded an Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) contract by ENEOS Corp. (Tokyo) for a large-scale direct methylcyclohexane electrosynthesis (Direct MCH) demonstration plant. This demonstration was conducted as part of Green Innovation Fund Projects of…
Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany) will license its hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) production technology to China Pingmei Shenma Group Nylon Technology (Shenma) to build an H2O2 megaplant with an annual capacity of 200 kilotons in Pingdingshan, Henan Province. The H2O2 produced…
In today's chemical manufacturing landscape, mixing operations represent a critical cornerstone of process efficiency and product quality. The selection and implementation of appropriate mixing technologies can dramatically impact production capabilities, consistency, and bottom-line results. This white paper examines the complex…