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…
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 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 (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 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 (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 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 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 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 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…