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Worley wins contract for metal processing hub in Missouri
Worley Ltd. (North Sydney, Australia) has been awarded an engineering services contract by United States Strategic Metals, to support the development of their multi-metallic processing hub in Missouri, United States. This will include the development of a cobalt refinery and…
Capra Biosciences receives additional funding for domestic pharmaceutical API biomanufacturing
Capra Biosciences, Inc. (Manassas, Virginia), a biomanufacturing company leveraging modular, continuous bioreactor technology to enable flexible, cost-competitive domestic production of pharmaceutical ingredients, today announced continued progress under its project agreement with the Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response (ASPR; Washington, D.C.), part of…
Mana Battery and Saft enter agreement for anode-free sodium-ion batteries
Mana Battery, Inc. (Broomfield, Colo.), a developer of high-energy anode-free sodium-ion battery technology, and Saft Groupe SAS (Levallois-Perret, France), a wholly owned subsidiary of TotalEnergies SE (Courbevoie, France) and a global leader in advanced battery solutions for demanding industrial and…
TotalEnergies acquires Shell’s European onshore renewables portfolio
TotalEnergies SE (Courbevoie, France) has signed an agreement with Shell plc (London, England) to acquire its entire onshore renewables business in Europe, including 500 MW of solar and wind assets in operation or under construction, mainly located in Italy and…
Kemira acquires REPUR S.r.l., Italy-based activated-carbon company
Kemira Oyj (Helsinki, Finland) has completed the acquisition of REPUR S.r.l., an Italy-based provider of activated carbon reactivation services for municipal and industrial water treatment applications. REPUR’s 2025 revenue was slightly over 5 million Euros and it employs 21 people.…
Modeling technology for early-stage pharmaceutical water system design
PharmaWater Pro® is a modeling platform (part of this company's consulting services) for pharmaceutical manufacturers planning new facilities or evaluating upgrades to existing water purification infrastructure. Pharmaceutical manufacturing plants depend on highly engineered systems to produce purified water (PW), water…
Fish-inspired nanorobots for lithium recovery from seawater
A Texas A&M University (College Station, Texas) research team is developing a new approach to lithium recovery using tiny, fish-like swimming nanorobots that capture lithium ions from seawater. Supported by a $1 million U.S. Department of Energy (DOE; Washington, D.C.)…
Chemists use programmable DNA as ‘molecular glue’ to direct protein crystallization
For decades, scientists have largely relied on painstaking trial and error to coax proteins into crystalline forms. Crystallization enables scientists to determine the molecular structures of proteins, which can provide a blueprint for designing drugs, engineering enzymes, and understanding disease.…
Sasol and partners commission 2-kW PEM electrolyzer to advance South Africa’s green hydrogen economy
Sasol Ltd. (Sandton, South Africa), the Department of Science, Technology and Innovation (DSTI; Pretoria, South Africa), the South African National Energy Development Institute (SANEDI; Sandton, South Africa), and North-West University (NWU; Potchefstroom, South Africa) have commissioned a 2-kW Proton Exchange…
Researchers unlock molecular mechanism of CO2-to-graphite conversion via molten-salt electrolysis
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab; Berkeley, California), UC Berkeley (Berkeley, California), and Estonia's National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics (Tallinn, Estonia) have shown a promising way to convert waste carbon pulled…