Ketjen Corp., a leader in catalyst and specialty chemicals innovation, and Saudi Aramco Technologies Company (SATC), a subsidiary of Aramco, have entered into a Joint Development Agreement (JDA) to co-develop, test, and deploy next-generation Fluid Catalytic Cracking (FCC) catalysts and…
Air Liquide S.A. (Paris) unveils the successful construction of its new Advanced Materials manufacturing plant in Taichung City, Taiwan. Already present in this key innovative market with 54 facilities dedicated to the semiconductor industry in Taiwan, this is the first…
Cambrex (East Rutherford, N.J.), a leading global contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO), announced the completion of initial engineering studies for its new, large-scale active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) manufacturing plant in Charles City, Iowa. This milestone marks significant progress toward…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) announced the official inauguration of its newly built, world-scale Verbund site in Zhanjiang, Guangdong Province in southern China. Covering an area of around four square kilometers, it is more than a major BASF project in the…
This company has debuted a new line of industrial bag filters for gas volumes up to 880,000 actual ft3/min. These bag filters are suitable for the broadest range of dust types, loadings and flow ranges. Bag filter elements consist of a…
This company has launched a software-as-a-service (SaaS) option for its energy management and optimization platform, Ability™ OPTIMAX® 7.0, alongside improved advanced process control software. This allows industrial and energy operators greater flexibility in how they deploy, scale and operate energy…
Aternium (Wilmington, Del.) announced it has selected Kiewit Engineering Group Inc. (Lenexa, Kan.) to perform the pre-FEED for its initial heavy water/hydrogen production facility, the first of a multi-plant project. Aternium’s multi‑plant initiative encompasses approximately $1 billion in safe, high‑efficiency…
BASF Hannong Chemicals Solutions Ltd. (BHCS), the joint venture between BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) and Hannong Chemicals, announced the inauguration of its new non-ionic surfactant (NIS) site located in the Daesan Industrial Complex in Seosan, Chungcheongnam-do, Korea. At the ceremony,…
TotalEnergies SE (Paris) and Holcim (Zug, Switzerland) inaugurated in Belgium a floating solar power plant with a capacity of 31 MW, located in Obourg on a former chalk quarry site that has been rehabilitated into a lake. The solar power…
Amyris, Inc. (Emeryville, Calif.) announced the completed construction of a new production line, which is an expansion of capabilities at its flagship state-of-the-art precision fermentation plant in Barra Bonita, Brazil. A pioneer in advanced precision fermentation technology, Amyris is adding…