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Schneider Electric introduces open, software-defined DCS for industrial automation

At the recent ARC Industry Leadership Forum event, Schneider Electric (Rueil-Malmaison, France, www.se.com), a global energy technology leader, announced the introduction of EcoStruxure™ Foxboro Software Defined Automation (SDA), the industry’s first open, software‑defined Distributed Control System (DCS). This breakthrough combines…

Three DuPont PVF plants in U.S. are now powered by 100% renewable electricity

DuPont (Wilmington, Del.) announced that its Tedlar® polyvinyl fluoride (PVF) films manufacturing operations in Buffalo, NY, Louisville, KY and Fayetteville, NC are now powered by 100% renewable electricity through the purchase of Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs). This milestone reflects the…

Celanese opens expanded technology center in Michigan

Celanese Corp. (Dallas, Tex.) announced the opening of its expanded Michigan Technology Center (MTC)—a strategic expansion that strengthens the company’s U.S.-based innovation footprint and advances its Engineered Materials 2026 growth strategy. The center is designed to enable earlier customer engagement,…

Carbon Neutral Fuels selects process technologies from Honeywell, Johnson Matthey and bp for U.K. e-fuels facility

Carbon Neutral Fuels (CNF), a leading U.K.-based developer of sustainable e-fuels, announced the selection of Johnson Matthey plc (JM; London) and bp’s FT CANS™ technology and Honeywell UOP’s Fischer-Tropsch (FT) Unicracking process technology for its flagship Power-to-Liquid e-fuels facility in…

Zeon breaks ground on new plant for cyclo-olefin polymers

Zeon Corp. (Tokyo) will begin construction of a new production plant for Cyclo-Olefin Polymers (COP) at its business site in Yuka Town, Shunan City, Yamaguchi Prefecture. The new plant will produce COP in anticipation of growing demand based on its…

EnergyX launches membrane production plant in Texas to support lithium extraction activities

EnergyX (Austin, Tex.) announced that its advanced materials manufacturing is now operational with the commissioning of one of the largest roll-to-roll membrane production machines in North America at its Austin, TX facility. The milestone brings critical process manufacturing onto American…

AGC Vinythai commissions expanded chlor-alkali plant in Thailand

AGC Vinythai has commenced commercial operations following the planned capacity expansion at its chlor-alkali plant in Map Ta Phut, Thailand. This project represents one of the largest deployments of Thyssenkrupp nucera AG & Co.'s KGaA (Dortmund, Germany) e-BiTAC v7 technology…

INEOS announces €300-million investment supporting decarboniztion of Lavera production site

INEOS Ltd. (London) announced a €300-million investment supported by French government grants that will deliver the next phase of its Lavera regeneration plan and cut carbon dioxide emissions by 331,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr), the equivalent of taking over…

Cabot strengthens production capabilities for circular carbons in Indonesia and China

 Cabot Corp. (Boston) announced the availability to produce in Asia Pacific its circular reinforcing carbons powered by its EVOLVE Sustainable Solutions technology platform. As such, Cabot's manufacturing facilities in Cilegon, Indonesia and Tianjin, China have successfully validated their ability to…

Yokogawa and CMC Solutions sign global sales and service agreement for predictive emission monitoring systems

Yokogawa Electric Corp. (Tokyo) announced that it has entered into a global agency agreement with  CMC Solutions () to expand the availability of CMC’s predictive emission monitoring systems (PEMS) outside the U.S. Under the agreement, Yokogawa will leverage its global…