Toyo Engineering Corp. (Tokyo) announced that its proprietary urea granulation technology has been selected for Kazakhstan's first-ever urea plant project planned by KazAzot Prime LLP, a chemical fertilizer manufacturing company. Under this project, TOYO will serve as the licensor of…
Thyssenkrupp Uhde GmbH (Dortmund, Germany) and Uniper SE (Düsseldorf, Germany) have signed a framework agreement that lays the foundation for the construction of commercial ammonia cracking plants. Uniper has secured license packages for the use of thyssenkrupp Uhde’s ammonia cracking…
Engineering Copilot TIA is a generative AI-powered assistant that operates alongside this company's TIA Portal software, enabling automation engineers to work smarter and faster by issuing natural language instructions that automatically generate and modify project elements. Delivered as a managed…
Dangote Petroleum Refinery and Petrochemicals FZE has selected Honeywell International, Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.) to supply advanced technology, services, proprietary catalysts and equipment to help enable the refinery to process a wider range of crude and double the production capacity at…
Air Liquide Singapore and Aster Chemicals and Energy Pte. Ltd., a leading provider of chemical and energy solutions in Singapore and Southeast Asia, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to jointly collaborate on the development of an innovative Auto…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) has officially commissioned its high-performance dispersant production line at the Jiangbei New Material Technology Park, Nanjing, China. This investment enables local production of the most advanced dispersants using Controlled Free Radical Polymerization (CFRP) technology. The overall…
Nikkiso Clean Energy & Industrial Gases Group (Temecula, Calif.; www.nikkisoceig.com) announced today that it has been awarded a significant contract by Matheson Tri-Gas, Inc. (Irving, Tex.; www.mathesongas.com), a wholly owned subsidiary of Nippon Sanso Holdings Corporation) to build an air…
Germany startup Greenlyte Carbon Technologies is inaugurating the worldwide first LiquidSolar SNG plant in Duisburg, Germany, marking a decisive step from development towards industrial production of synthetic fuels (e-fuels). This milestone positions Greenlyte as a technology leader for innovative, competitive…
A Texas-based private company, PDS Energy Information (PDS; Austin, Tex.; www.pdsenergy.com), recently announced that it is commercially operating AquaTrade — a tool developed by a National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL; Morgantown, W.Va.; www.netl.doe.gov)-led team that helps oil-and-gas operators find and…
The following are recently published, first-edition books with possible relevance to various parts of the chemical process industries (CPI): Gas-Solid Adsorption Thermodynamics. Edited by Bidyut B. Raha, Tahmid H. Rupam and Hongbin Ma, Elsevier Science, 2025, 352 pages, $188.00. High-Entropy…