Johnson Matthey plc (JM) and bp plc (both London) have signed a licensing and engineering agreement for Johnson Matthey’s LCH technology at bp’s proposed flagship low carbon (blue) hydrogen facility in Teesside, H2Teesside. Industry in the Tees Valley accounts…
Sumitomo Chemical Co. (Tokyo, Japan) has begun construction of a pilot facility to establish a process for producing propylene directly from ethanol, which is attracting attention as a sustainable chemical raw material. The development of this technology is one of…
Linde plc (Guildford, U.K.) announced that its entities in India have signed long-term agreements for the supply of industrial gases to Indian Oil Corp.'s. (IOCL) Panipat refinery in Northern India. Linde’s entities will build, own and operate major new on-site…
Chevron Corp. (San Ramon, Calif.) announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement with Hess Corp. (New York, N.Y.) to acquire all of the outstanding shares of Hess in an all-stock transaction valued at $53 billion, or $171 per…
Avalon Advanced Materials Inc. has entered into an expanded partnership agreement with Metso Corp. (Espoo, Finland) to advance the construction of a full-service lithium processing facility in Thunder Bay, Ontario. The parties have also agreed to co-develop a Technology &…
Worley (North Sydney, Australia)has been awarded a front end engineering design (FEED) contract for the first phase of Statera’s ground-breaking 3 GW Kintore Hydrogen project in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Once operational, the project will be the largest renewable (green) hydrogen project…
Covestro AG (Leverkusen, Germany) has commenced operations at its first dedicated mechanical recycling (MCR) compounding line for polycarbonates at its integrated site in Shanghai, China. This line is set to produce over 25,000 tons of premium-quality polycarbonates and blends containing…
Johnson Matthey plc (JM) and bp plc (both London) announced that EDL Anlagenbau Gesellschaft mbH (EDL) has selected their co-developed, award-winning Fischer Tropsch (FT) CANS technology for EDL’s HyKero plant located in Böhlen-Lippendorf, south of Leipzig, Germany. The HyKero plant…
Ascend Elements, a U.S.-based manufacturer of sustainable battery materials, and Orbia’s Fluorinated Solutions business, Koura, one of the world’s largest producers of fluoroproducts and technologies, agreed to explore joint commercialization of the patented Hydro-to-Anode graphite recycling technology and discuss plans…
Röhm (Darmstadt, Germany) announced that it has commissioned a production expansion for polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) in Shanghai. In a ceremony attended by employees, partners and political representatives, Hans-Peter Hauck, COO of Röhm, officially commissioned the plant. “The expansion of our…