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Moeve Chemicals completes verification for production of low-carbon products

Moeve Chemicals (Madrid, Spain; www.moeveglobal.com) has completed the verification of its global manufacturing network for the production of Low Carbon products. Following the latest verification milestone at its Brazil and Shanghai facilities, all of the company’s production plants are now…

Coolbrook and ABB announce industrial-scale deployment of heater for cement plant in India

Coolbrook (Helsinki, Findland; www.coolbrook.com) and ABB (Zurich, Switzerland; www.abb.com) have announced the industrial delivery phase of their partnership to deliver a first-of-its-kind industrial-scale deployment of Coolbrook’s RotoDynamic Heater™ (RDH™) for Adani Cement’s Boyareddypalli Integrated Cement Plant in Andhra Pradesh, India.…

Air Products announces award for semiconductor manufacturing expansion in Taiwan

Air Products (Allentown, Pa.; www.airproducts.com), a world-leading industrial gases company, today announced Air Products San Fu has been awarded a long-term agreement to support a semiconductor manufacturer’s expansion in Taiwan. The project will supply multiple new semiconductor fabs and back-end…

Fluor Corp. awarded FEED contract for aromatics facility in Bahrain

Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.fluor.com) announced today that it has been selected by Gulf Petrochemical Industries Company (GPIC; Sitra, Bahrain; www.gpic.com) to execute the front-end engineering and design for a new aromatics facility located in the Kingdom of Bahrain. The project…

Axens launches industrial-scale SAF project in France

Axens (Rueil-Malmaison, France) announced the launch of the ERA project (Ethanol to Refuel Aviation), France’s first industrial-scale Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) production unit based on advanced bioethanol. With a planned capacity of 50,000 tons per year, the facility—currently in the…

KBR technology selected for Pampa ammonia-urea complex in Argentina

KBR, Inc. announced that its Purifier® technology has been selected for Pampa Energía’s new ammonia-urea complex in Argentina. Under the terms of the contract, KBR will provide technology licensing, basic engineering design package, and proprietary equipment for the 3,430 tons…

A practical framework for managing raw-material changes in chemical manufacturing

Today’s environment features a host of factors that challenge raw-material assumptions. Whether it be price fluctuation, changing trade policy or supply constraints, chemical manufacturers are operating without consistency. Availability and cost of materials are showing up as question marks. This…

This new semi-welded plate heat exchanger is designed for large-scale energy-transition projects

TS45 is this company’s largest semi-welded plate heat exchanger to date, engineered to secure competitiveness and resilience by meeting growing demands for high-capacity, high-pressure heat transfer across energy transition, industrial, and energy efficiency applications. Developed to support industries facing rising…

CSB releases final investigation report on 2024 chemical fire and release in Georgia

  The U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB; Washington, D.C.; www.csb.gov) today released its final investigation report into the massive September 29, 2024,  chemical fire and toxic gas release at the KIK Consumer Products Bio-Lab Plant 12 warehouse in Conyers,…

Evonik and Celtic Renewables partner on low-carbon emollient for cosmetics

Evonik (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) is using Celtic Renewables’ (Grangemouth, U.K.; www.celtic-renewables.com) bio-butanol to produce ECOHANCE® Soft BOL, a sustainable emollient for cosmetics and personal care products. Combined with Evonik’s formulation expertise, the result is a final product that meets both performance…