Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.) announced that its Advanced Technologies & Life Sciences business line has been selected by Altris AB to provide front-end engineering and design (FEED) services for the world’s first industrial-scale sodium-ion battery production facility in Sandviken, Sweden.…
ExxonMobil Catalysts and Licensing LLC has licensed its advanced fluid-bed methanol-to-gasoline (MTG) technology to Aramco (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) for a demonstration-scale unit to be located in NEOM's Hydrogen Innovation and Development Center. Aramco plans to use the licensed ExxonMobil technology…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) has started production in its state-of-the-art Superabsorbents Excellence Center at its Verbund site in Antwerp, Belgium. The €25 million investment is a clear commitment of the company to the hygiene business as an important part of…
John Cockerill Hydrogen, a world leading electrolyzer manufacturer announced its U.S. entry with the acquisition of manufacturing space in Baytown for a new gigafactory. The facility is expected to create 200 new jobs and produce 1GW per year of electrolyzers.…
Arkema S.A. (Colombes, France) has begun production of Sartomer specialty UV/LED curing resins at its expanded facility in Nansha, China, where the Group invested to double the capacity, as announced end-2021. This will support the development of more sustainable solutions…
Lummus Technology (Houston) announced that it has reached an agreement with Air Liquide Engineering & Construction to acquire rights to license and market ester grade acrylic acid technology, and light and heavy acrylates process technology. The addition expands Lummus' portfolio…
thyssenkrupp Uhde (Dortmund, Germany) has been awarded a contract by ENOWA, NEOM’s energy and water company, for engineering services and the supply, design and procurement of equipment for a new CO2-to-methanol and methanol-to-gasoline demonstration plant at ENOWA’s Hydrogen Innovation and…
The Lubrizol Corp. (Cleveland, Ohio) and Grasim Industries Ltd. (Mumbai, India) have broken ground on the first phase of a 100,000 metric-ton CPVC resin plant in Vilayat, Gujarat, India. The facility located at the Grasim Industries’ site will be the…
Mitsui E&S Co., Ltd. (Tokyo) has completed the construction of a hydrogen gas supply facility (liquid hydrogen tank, hydrogen gas compressor, etc.) at at Mitsui E&SE&S Tamano Factory, aiming for the early launch of our hydrogen-related business. Mitsui E&S have…
Through an investment of more than 140 million euros (more than 200 million Canadian dollars), Air Liquide S.A. (Paris) announces that it will establish in Bécancour, Québec (Canada), a breakthrough platform supplying low-carbon industrial gases including hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen and…