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, 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 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 (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, 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 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 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 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…
Lummus Technology (Houston) announced an integrated technology award from Bayegan. Bayegan will license Lummus' CATOFIN technology for a new 450,000-ton/yr propane dehydrogenation (PDH) unit and Lummus' Novolen technology for a new 450,000-ton/yr polypropylene (PP) unit. The units will be located…
The Surface Treatment global business unit of BASF’s Coatings division, operating under the Chemetall brand, celebrated the opening of its new Global Aluminum Competence Center in Giussano, Italy. The state-of-the-art facility will strengthen Chemetall’s position as a global supplier of…