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Lubrizol invests $20 million in North Carolina acrylics plant

The Lubrizol Corp. (Cleveland, Ohio) announced a $20-million investment to its plant in Gastonia, North Carolina, to enhance production of innovative acrylic emulsions. Dating back to the 1950s, Lubrizol has a long history of innovating and manufacturing acrylic emulsion technologies…

Standard Lithium commissions lithium-extraction unit in Arkansas

Standard Lithium Ltd. (Vancouver, B.C., Canada)has successfully commissioned and validated the performance of the largest continuously-operating Direct Lithium Extraction (DLE) equipment in North America. The Company recently installed a commercial-scale DLE column at its Demonstration Plant near El Dorado, Arkansas.…

Innovafeed opens insect innovation center in Decatur, Ill.

Innovafeed (Paris, France), a global leader in the production of insect ingredients for high-quality animal feed, pet food and plant nutrition, inaugurated its North American Insect Innovation Center (NAIIC) in Decatur, Illinois on the 18th of April. This pilot plant…

IOCL selects Lummus’ cumene technology for new plant

Lummus Technology (Houston) announced Indian Oil Corporation Ltd. (IOCL)selected the Lummus/Versalis cumene technology for a 440,000-ton/yr unit in Paradip, India. The new cumene unit is part of a grassroots petrochemical and polymers expansion at IndianOil's complex in Paradip. "Our cumene…

Technip Energies awarded FEED contract for CCS project at major waste-to-energy plant in the U.K.

Technip Energies (Paris) has been awarded a Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) contract by Viridor for the Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) project at one of the United Kingdom’s largest Energy-from-Waste facilities in Runcorn, United Kingdom. The project aims to capture…

Lummus Technology opens water-treatment R&D facility in Texas

Lummus Technology (Houston) announced the opening of its cutting-edge research and development (R&D) facility dedicated to advancing its Zimpro suite of water and wastewater treatment technologies. Officially named the Lummus Green Circle Labs and located in La Porte, Texas, the…

KBR phenol technology selected for SABIC Fujian Petrochemical Complex

KBR, Inc. (Houston) announced that it has been awarded a contract by SABIC Fujian Petrochemicals to license KBR's market-leading phenol technology in China. Under the terms of the contract, KBR will provide technology licensing and proprietary engineering design for a…

Cepsa and Evos join forces for green-methanol storage in Spain and the Netherlands

Cepsa Química (Madrid, Spain) has signed an agreement with Evos, a leading liquid energy and chemical storage company with hubs in strategic locations across Europe, to enable the storage of green methanol to be produced by Cepsa at Evos’ storage…

Perstorp opens wastewater purification facility at Stenungsund production site

Perstorp AB (Malmö, Sweden) has celebrated the opening of a facility that will enable wastewater from the water treatment plant run by the municipality to be further purified and reused for cooling at the Perstorp Oxo production plant in Stenungsund.…

CF Industries and JERA to develop low-carbon ammonia project in the U.S.

CF Industries Holdings, Inc. (Deerfield, Ill.) and JERA Co., Inc. (Tokyo) , Japan’s largest energy company,  announced that they have executed a joint development agreement (JDA) to explore the development of greenfield low-carbon ammonia production capacity at CF Industries’ Blue…