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CSB releases new safety video on combustible-dust explosion based on 2017 Wisconsin explosion

The U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB; Washington, D.C.; www.csb.gov) released a new safety video on its investigation into the fatal combustible dust explosions and fires at the Didion Milling facility in Cambria, Wisconsin, that occurred on May…

New collaboration will expand polystyrene recycling in Mexico City

The Polystyrene Recycling Alliance (PSRA), a North American coalition advancing scalable polystyrene (PS) and expanded polystyrene (EPS) recycling solutions, announced a new strategic collaboration with R3vira, a Mexico City-based organization committed to community-driven polystyrene recovery across Latin America’s largest metropolitan…

Endress+Hauser acquires process analysis specialist SOPAT

The Endress+Hauser Group (Reinach, Switzerland) has further expanded its portfolio of measurement instruments, solutions and services for process analysis. It has acquired SOPAT, a Germany-based specialist in inline process measurement technology, retaining the company’s staff in Berlin and Chemnitz. SOPAT…

Cemvita and Radix collaborating on circular SAF feedstock plant in Brazil

Cemvita (Houston) and Radix (Houston) announced progress in front-end engineering for a first-of-its-kind circular bio-oil project in Brazil, focused on converting crude glycerin, a bio-diesel byproduct, into ultra-low carbon intensity bio-oil used as a feed-stock to produce sustainable aviation fuel…

Baker Hughes and Marathon Petroleum enter agreement for downstream chemical technologies

Baker Hughes, Inc. (Houston) announced an agreement with Marathon Petroleum Corp. to become its preferred provider for hydrocarbon treatment products and services at refineries across the United States. The multiyear preferred provider agreement was signed during Baker Hughes’ 26th Annual…

TruAlt Bioenergy selects Honeywell technology for SAF project in India

Honeywell International, Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.) announced that TruAlt Bioenergy Limited will use Honeywell’s Ethanol-to-Jet (ETJ) process technology to produce 80,000 tons per year of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) in India. The agreement marks a major step towards establishing one of…

Plastics recycling project involving BlueAlp, Shell and others receives award from Dutch government

Project CLEAN (Catalytic Low-temperature Efficiency for Advanced Decontamination), a four-year research project involving BlueAlp (Eindhoven, the Netherlands; www.bluealp.nl), Renewi plc (Milton Keynes, U.K.; www.renewi.com), Shell (London, U.K.; www.shell.com) and the University of Utrecht (Utrecht, the Netherlands; www.uu.nl), has been awarded…

A redesigned mobile app for SCADA allows more actions in the field

This company has redesigned the mobile app for its DeltaV software-as-a-service (SaaS) supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) software to allow operators and technicians to do more in the field from their mobile devices. Operators and field technicians increasingly rely on…

Lummus and Sumitomo Chemical commercially launch recycling technology for PMMA

Lummus Technology (Houston) and Sumitomo Chemical Co. (Tokyo, Japan) announced the commercial availability of their highly-efficient Polymethyl Methacrylate Chemical Recycling (PMMA-CR) technology. This builds on the strategic partnership between Lummus and Sumitomo Chemical, first announced in May 2024, to co-develop…

Arlanxeo inaugurates new rubber plant in China

Arlanxeo (Maastricht, the Netherlands) has inaugurated its new Therban® hydrogenated nitrile butadiene rubber (HNBR) plant in Changzhou, China. The new plant supports expanding ARLANXEO’s HNBR production footprint and its ability to deliver reliable, high-quality elastomer solutions to customers across China…