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Electrified Thermal Systems opens new production facility for conductive firebricks near Boston

Electrified Thermal Solutions (Medford, Mass.; www.electrifiedthermal.com), a leader in thermal energy storage for industry, today announced the opening of their new headquarters and production facility in the Boston area, expanding production capacity for its proprietary electrically conductive firebricks (E-Bricks) to…

Ketjen and Aramco announce collaboration to develop advanced FCC catalysts

Ketjen Corp., a leader in catalyst and specialty chemicals innovation, and Saudi Aramco Technologies Company (SATC), a subsidiary of Aramco, have entered into a Joint Development Agreement (JDA) to co-develop, test, and deploy next-generation Fluid Catalytic Cracking (FCC) catalysts and…

Cambrex progresses engineering on its new pharmaceutical ingredients plant in Iowa

Cambrex (East Rutherford, N.J.), a leading global contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO), announced the completion of initial engineering studies for its new, large-scale active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) manufacturing plant in Charles City, Iowa. This milestone marks significant progress toward…

BASF inaugurates Verbund site in Zhanjiang, southern China

BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) announced the official inauguration of its newly built, world-scale Verbund site in Zhanjiang, Guangdong Province in southern China. Covering an area of around four square kilometers, it is more than a major BASF project in the…

Alternium selects Kiewit for pre-FEED on new hydrogen production facility

Aternium (Wilmington, Del.)  announced it has selected Kiewit Engineering Group Inc.  (Lenexa, Kan.) to perform the pre-FEED for its initial heavy water/hydrogen production facility, the first of a multi-plant project. Aternium’s multi‑plant initiative encompasses approximately $1 billion in safe, high‑efficiency…

BASF Hannong JV starts up non-ionic surfactant plant in South Korea

BASF Hannong Chemicals Solutions Ltd. (BHCS), the joint venture between BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) and Hannong Chemicals, announced the inauguration of its new non-ionic surfactant (NIS) site located in the Daesan Industrial Complex in Seosan, Chungcheongnam-do, Korea. At the ceremony,…

TotalEnergies and Holcim inaugurate floating solar-power plant in Belgium

 TotalEnergies SE (Paris) and Holcim (Zug, Switzerland) inaugurated in Belgium a floating solar power plant with a capacity of 31 MW, located in Obourg on a former chalk quarry site that has been rehabilitated into a lake. The solar power…

Amyris completes new production line at fermentation plant in Brazil

Amyris, Inc. (Emeryville, Calif.) announced the completed construction of a new production line, which is an expansion of capabilities at its flagship state-of-the-art precision fermentation plant in Barra Bonita, Brazil. A pioneer in advanced precision fermentation technology, Amyris is adding…

Wacker starts up expanded silicone emulsions complex in India

Wacker Chemie AG (Munich, Germany) announced another milestone in the expansion of its silicone capacities in India. A new production complex for manufacturing silicone emulsions went into operation at Wacker’s Panagarh site. The facility produces GMP-certified silicones for the cosmetics…

Evonik realigns research unit into innovation center with focus on speed and market focus

Chemicals company Evonik (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) is realigning its strategic research unit into what it calls The Evonik Innovation Factory. This new unit operates as an entrepreneurial development unit, accelerating the transition of technological breakthroughs into industrial applications. It has…