The Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Aramco; Dhahran) and TotalEnergies SE (Paris) awarded Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) contracts for the $11 billion Amiral complex, a future world scale petrochemicals facility expansion at the SATORP refinery in the Kingdom of Saudi…
Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.) announced that SASA Polyester Sanayi A.Ş. will build the world’s largest Propane Dehydrogenation (PDH) unit in Yumurtalık, Türkiye using the latest generation of Honeywell Oleflex technology. The facility will have the capacity to produce 1-million-tons…
Nippon Shokubai America Industries, Inc. (NAII), the U.S. subsidiary of NIPPON SHOKUBAI CO., LTD., has launched marketing and capital investment initiatives to expand the Nippon Shokubai Group’s Solutions Business, a division that leverages the company’s research and development (R&D) capabilities…
Busch Vakuumteknik AB, a business of The Busch Group, has acquired the Gothenburg-based service company VakuumExperten i Sverige AB, which specializes in preventive and remedial maintenance work in vacuum technology. “The acquisition of VakuumExperten is in line with our promise…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) has officially opened its Biodegradation and Microplastics Center of Excellence at its site in Wyandotte, Michigan to help customers across North America achieve their circularity and sustainability goals. The center’s targets include providing holistic, tailored solutions…
Kraton Corp. (Houston) announced the expansion of its manufacturing capabilities in Berre, France, to produce up to 100% ISCC PLUS certified renewable Styrenic Block Copolymers (SBC) as part of the CirKular+ ReNew Series via mass balance approach. CirKular+ ReNew Series…
Umicore N.V. (Brussels, Belgium) has inaugurated one of the world‘s largest and most advanced solid-state battery material prototyping facilities in Olen, Belgium, which will expand and accelerate its innovation and technology development after having acquired strong research expertise with the…
GEA Group (Düsseldorf, Germany) has supplied heat pumps for district heating in Gateshead – the largest mine water project in the U.K. "Gateshead Mine Water Scheme" is currently the largest project in the UK for heat recovery from mine water.…
Albemarle Corporation (Charlotte, N.C.) announced that it achieved an IRMA 50 level of performance in an independent third-party assessment of its lithium brine extraction and concentration site in the Salar de Atacama, using the Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance's (IRMA)…
The Lubrizol Corp. (Cleveland, Ohio), a global leader in specialty chemicals, is advancing its commitment to continued growth in India with several significant projects across its portfolio. The company is pledging more than 150 million USD of in-region investment, including…