DuPont (Wilmington, Del.) announced 100% of its grid electricity is from renewable sources across its entire European Union (E.U.) operations, through the use of Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs). This milestone underscores the company's commitment to achieving its renewable energy goal…
Hitachi Energy has delivered rectifier transformers for electrolytic hydrogen to a hydrogen-power technology park built by China Energy Engineering Corporation (CEEC) in Songyuan, a city in northeast China. The transformer solution helps ensure a reliable power supply for hydrogen production…
ExxonMobil France Holding has entered into exclusive negotiations with North Atlantic France SAS for both the proposed sale of its 82.89% majority shareholder interest in Esso Société Anonyme Française SA (Esso S.A.F.), as well as the proposed sale of ExxonMobil…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) and DOMO Chemicals (Leuna, Germany) have signed an agreement giving BASF the right to take over DOMO Chemicals’ 49% share of the Alsachimie joint venture, in which BASF currently holds 51%. According to applicable laws, the…
The U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB; www.csb.gov) today released its second update on the agency’s ongoing investigation into the September 29, 2024, chemical fire at the Bio-Lab, Inc. facility in Conyers, Georgia. The incident occurred when…
Saint-Gobain S.A. (Courbevoie, France) has announced the launch of a new low-carbon stone-wool insulation plant in the U.K., which will be located on a site owned by the Group in Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, and is expected to begin production in…
Graphitic Energy (formerly known as C-Zero; Santa Barbara, Calif.) has entered into a strategic collaboration with the Claremont office of Technip Energies USA to jointly develop and deploy Graphitic’s innovative methane pyrolysis (also called “turquoise hydrogen“) technology. This innovative process…
Airex Energy (Bécancour, Quebec, Canada), Groupe Rémabec, a Quebec-based forestry company and SUEZ Group (Paris) inaugurated Carbonity, Canada's first industrial-scale biochar plant, in Port-Cartier. Resulting from a partnership between the three companies, the plant will start with a production capacity…
Borealis Group (Vienna, Austria) and Borouge Plc have announced a significant expansion of their global capacity for cross-linked polyethylene (XLPE) and semiconductive (semicon) compounds—supporting customers to deliver the power cables essential to distribution and transmission grids. By the end of…
Wood plc (Aberdeen, U.K.) has secured a contract from TA’ZIZ to provide project management consultancy (PMC) for the development of the U.A.E.’s first methanol production facility in Al Ruwais Industrial City, Abu Dhabi. Construction will be completed by 2028 and…