H2BE and INEOS Ltd. (London) announced that they have agreed preliminary commercial terms for the offtake of low-carbon hydrogen from H2BE, with an aim of supporting Ineos Project ONE's ambition to become the first zero carbon steam cracker in Europe.…
Eni S.p.A. (Rome, Italy) has signed an agreement to acquire a 25% stake in Energy Exploration Technologies, Inc.'s (EnergyX; Austin, Tex.) Chilean subsidiary company Black Giant SpA, developing a lithium project located in northern Chile, near the Salar de Punta…
French textile-to-textile regeneration company Reju announced the opening of a Research and Development (R&D) Center in Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, the company's first proprietary research center in North America. Located within Technip Energies' existing Advanced Materials and Catalysts research center, the lab…
Givaudan (Zurich, Switzerland) celebrated the grand opening of its new, state-of-the-art production facility in Cikarang, Indonesia. By expanding manufacturing capacity and accelerating innovation, the new facility will strengthen the Company’s ability to meet rising consumer demand for memorable food experiences…
As Europe accelerates its transition to electric mobility, E.ON Power Plants Belgium and Imerys Graphite & Carbon (IGC) officially inaugurated a state-of-the-art Energy Recovery Plant at Imerys’ production site in Willebroek. The inauguration ceremony was honoured by the presence of…
Sumitomo Chemical Co. (Tokyo, Japan) announced that its wholly owned Korean subsidiary, Dongwoo Fine-Chem Co., Ltd. (Dongwoo Fine-Chem), has signed a joint venture (JV) agreement with Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd. (Suwon, South Korea) to establish a joint venture company that…
Solstice Advanced Materials (Morris Plains, N.J.; formerly part of Honeywell) and Element Solutions Inc. (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.) announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement for Solstice to acquire Element in a cash-and-stock transaction valued at approximately $14.5 billion,…
Optimized control-system architecture comes with many production benefits. One of the tools for doing this is to perform a series of step tests. In many cases, step tests are not possible, or are time-consuming or plan-intrusive. PITOPS is a specialized…
Hydrogen technology provider Verde Hydrogen (Stoughton, Mass.) has secured a landmark supply contract with China Coal Energy Group, tasked with delivering a full set of core electrolysis equipment for Phase I of the group’s large-scale off-grid renewable green hydrogen flagship…
Sulzer Ltd. (Winterthur, Switzerland) has been selected by WPU, part of Vitol, to provide its PyroCon™ technology and engineering services for its new chemical recycling facility in the Netherlands. The new WPU site will process up to 80,000 metric tons…