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Rio Tinto opens $1.4-billion lithium projects in Argentina
Rio Tinto plc (London, U.K.) announced a major milestone for Argentina’s lithium industry, marking the official opening of Rio Tinto’s Fénix 1B expansion and Sal de Vida operation in Catamarca following a combined investment of around $1.4 billion. Both projects…
MilliporeSigma opens bioprocessing production center in Daejeon, South Korea
MilliporeSigma (Burlington, Mass.), the U.S. and Canada Life Science business of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, today announced the opening of a new Asia-Pacific Bioprocessing Production Center in Daejeon, South Korea. The center represents an investment of more than €300 million,…
AkzoNobel completes $60-million upgrade of three North American powder coatings sites
Upgrades to production, infrastructure and technology have been made at three of AkzoNobel N.V.'s (Amsterdam) Powder Coatings sites in North America as part of a $60 million investment. The company's facilities in Reading, Pennsylvania; Warsaw, Indiana; and Monterrey, Mexico, have…
Topsoe selected as technology licensor for HDF Energy’s BaseBlue blue hydrogen project
Topsoe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark) has been selected by HDF Energy S.A. (Bordeaux, France) as technology licensor for BaseBlue. The power project is planned to supply data centers in Texas with reliable, low-carbon electricity. Under the agreement, Topsoe will provide the…
Use this gas cooler unit for post-compression hydrogen cooling
The new STELION Gas Cooler is a compact gas cooling unit designed to reduce hydrogen temperature after compression. The unit provides a cooling stage before storage, testing, refuelling or other processes that require gas temperature conditioning. Developed primarily for hydrogen,…
Jacobs to deliver $1-billion San Francisco wastewater upgrade through joint venture
Jacobs Solutions Inc. (NYSE: J; Dallas) was selected by the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC; San Francisco) as the progressive design-build contractor for the Southeast Treatment Plant Nutrient Reduction Project, a $1 billion investment estimated by SFPUC, supporting San…
Stora Enso and Shanshan partner on lignin-based hard carbon anode demonstration line
Stora Enso Oyj (Helsinki, Finland) and Shanshan Technology Co., Ltd. (Shanghai, China) have entered into a partnership to jointly accelerate the development and industrialization of sustainable battery materials with the construction of a demonstration line for lignin-based hard carbon battery…
Veolia and Sumitomo Chemical join Japan’s plastic resource circulation model project
Veolia Jenets K.K. (Tokyo, Japan) and Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd. (Tokyo, Japan) have been selected to participate in the Ministry of the Environment of Japan’s FY2026 Model Project for Plastic Resource Circulation. By combining mechanical recycling (MR) and chemical recycling…
PTT Global Chemical, SCG Chemicals plan olefins, polyolefins JV in Thailand
PTT Global Chemical Public Co. Ltd. (GC; Bangkok, Thailand) and SCG Chemicals Public Co. Ltd. (SCGC; Bangkok, Thailand) have announced plans to combine their olefins and polyolefins businesses in Thailand to strengthen the Thai petrochemical industry's competitiveness on the global…
Fujifilm to boost magnetic tape production capacity fivefold
Fujifilm Corp. (Tokyo) has decided to invest approximately 10 billion yen at its Kanagawa Factory, Odawara Site to increase its production capacity for data storage magnetic tape by approximately five times. The investment will strengthen Fujifilm’s stable supply system for…