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Toray Industries develops first solvent-based recycling technology for recovering PPS from waste
Toray Industries, Inc. (Tokyo, Japan; www.toray.com) announced that it has developed what it believes is the industry’s first solvent-based recycling technology to recover polyphenylene sulfide (PPS) from waste materials. The technology selectively dissolves and separates PPS from the materials while…
Air Liquide invests 170 million euros to supply ultra-high-purity gases to semiconductor manufacturer in Japan
Air Liquide (Paris, France; www.airliquide.com) today announced a new investment of more than 170 million euros to supply ultra-high purity gases to a leading semiconductor manufacturer in Japan. Under a long-term agreement, the Group will support the expansion of its…
Westlake to close PVC plant in Cologne, Germany
Westlake Corp. (Houston, Texas; www.westlake.com) announced today that, in light of challenging market conditions, the Company is taking action to improve profitability by closing its polyvinyl chloride (PVC) plant in Cologne, Germany. Chemical production in Europe continues to face difficult conditions, including…
Gen-H Energy and Hycamite sign MoU for power project in Finland based on methane pyrolysis
GEN-H Energy SL (Madrid, Spain; www.gen-h.com) is planning a 200–300-megawatt balancing power project in Kotka, Finland, where electricity will be generated from natural gas without carbon dioxide emissions. Hycamite (Kokkola, Finland; www.hycamite.com) equipment – based on methane pyrolysis – will…
Environmental Controls Can Reduce Operating Costs, Not Just Emissions
For a long time, air-pollution control equipment was budgeted the way a company budgets for fire insurance: a necessary cost with no expectation of a return. That framing is outdated, and for a growing number of manufacturers, it is costing…
This platform supports transferable, scalable analytical workflows for bioprocesses
This company's Tunable Laser Near-Infrared (TL-NIR) bioprocessing platform combines a common hardware foundation with software-enabled analytical workflows, including TALOS™ rapid protein quantitation and ATLAS® multi-analyte quantitation. It is available as an at-line or in-line system, both of which support multiple…
How to Improve the Performance of Existing Spray Drying Operations
For manufacturers looking to improve the performance and resource efficiency of spray drying operations, the first question does not always need to be: What new equipment do we need? Sometimes, a better question is: What more can we get from…
Technip Energies awarded contract for development of petrochemical complex in Türkiye
Technip Energies N.V. (Paris, France; www.ten.com) has been awarded contracts by Petkim, a subsidiary of SOCAR, in connection with the development of a proposed integrated petrochemical complex in Aliağa, Türkiye. The contracts include the license for a world-scale mixed-feed ethylene…
New plate heat exchanger significantly reduces refrigerant requirements
This company has developed a new plate heat exchanger for heat-pump cooling and heating equipment with a heat-transfer performance that it reportedly triple that of conventional models. Specifically, the new heat exchanger reduces the number of plate layers, allowing the…
Tecnimont USA signs FEED contract with Argent for LNG export facility in Louisiana
MAIRE S.p.A. (Milan, Italy; www.groupmaire.com) announced today that its U.S. subsidiary Tecnimont USA Inc. has signed the Front-End-Engineering Design (FEED) contract with Argent LNG, LLC for the development of Argent's liquefied natural gas (LNG) export facility at Port Fourchon, Louisiana.…