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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…
Thyssenkrupp Uhde awarded FEED for CF Industries’ proposed urea liquor upgrade plant in Ontario
thyssenkrupp Uhde GmbH (Dortmund, Germany) has been awarded a front-end engineering design (FEED) study by an affiliate of CF Industries Holdings, Inc. (Northbrook, Ill.), one of the world's leading manufacturers of hydrogen and nitrogen products, for a proposed new urea…
BASF inaugurates alkyl polyglucosides expansion in Cincinnati
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) has inaugurated the expansion of its alkyl polyglucosides (APGs) production capacity at its Cincinnati, Ohio, site, further strengthening the company’s manufacturing footprint in the U.S. First announced in 2023, the expansion reinforces Cincinnati’s role in BASF’s…
Veolia to supply CO₂ purification units for Protos carbon capture plant
Veolia Environnement S.A. (Paris, France) has been awarded a significant contract by Kanadevia Inova AG (Zurich, Switzerland), the engineering, procurement and construction contractor for the Protos carbon capture plant, to design and supply two CO₂ purification and dehydration units. The…
Técnicas Reunidas to supply hydrogen reformers for Dangote fertilizer complex in Ethiopia
Dangote Industries Ltd. (Lagos, Nigeria) has awarded Técnicas Reunidas, S.A. (Madrid, Spain) a contract to supply two hydrogen production reformers for the new ammonia and urea fertilizer complex that Dangote is developing in Gode, in Ethiopia's Somali Region. Dangote is…
Syensqo ends production of C6O4, its last fluorosurfactant, at Italian site
Syensqo S.A. (Brussels) announced the end of production of C6O4, the last fluorosurfactant used in the manufacture of certain fluoropolymers at its Spinetta Marengo site (Italy). With this step, the company delivers on the innovation commitment it announced in 2022 to phase out…