Worley (Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; www.worley.com) has been awarded an engineering and design services contract by Orbia Fluor & Energy Materials (Waltham, Mass.; www.orbia-fem.com) to support the development of a lithium hexafluorophosphate (LiPF₆) production facility at Orbia’s site in…
Ketjen (Houston, Tex.; www.ketjen.com), a provider of advanced catalyst solutions and technical expertise for the refining industry, announced a partnership with Imubit (Houston, Tex.; www.imubit.com), an industrial AI software company, to give refiners real-time, actionable catalyst intelligence for fluid catalytic…
Materials company UPM (Helsinki, Finland; www.upm.com) today announced that it has reached an agreement with Avantium N.V. (Amsterdam, the Netherlands; www.avantium.com) to acquire the intellectual property related to Avantium's Ray Technology®, a process for the production of bio-based mono-ethylene glycol…
Technip Energies (Nanterre, France; www.ten.com) successfully completed the Shell Skyline project at Shell Chemicals Park Moerdijk, Netherlands, modernizing the 16 oldest ethane furnaces of the steam cracker. The Engineering, Procurement and module Fabrication contract consisted in doubling the capacity of…
Topsoe (Lyngby, Denmark; www.topsoe.com), a leading global provider of advanced technology and solutions for the energy transition, has entered into an agreement with BioVeritas (Bryan, Tex.; www.bioveritas.com), a sustainable fuels and chemicals technology company commercializing a platform to unlock advantaged…
The TA’ZIZ Methanol Co., a joint venture between Abu Dhabi Chemicals Derivatives Co. RSC Ltd. (TA’ZIZ) and Proman (Wollerau, Switzerland), announced that it has achieved financial close on $2 billion in financing for the UAE’s first world‑scale methanol plant in…
With the investment in a new steam compressor at its Dormagen site, Covestro AG (Leverkusen, Germany) will reduce its energy consumption in Germany by two percent per year compared to 2025. The company's largest energy efficiency project to date will…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) announced that its Agricultural Solutions business has commissioned its BioHub, a new fermentation plant for biological and biotechnology-based crop-protection products, at the Ludwigshafen site. With an investment in the high double-digit million-euro range, BASF is strengthening…
Worley Ltd. (North Sydney, Australia) has been selected by Australian company St George Mining as feasibility technical advisor for its Araxá niobium and rare earths project in Brazil, led by Worley Consulting Brasil and delivered through Worley’s Brazilian subsidiary, Worley…
Aramco (Dhahran, Saudi Arbia) and IBM (Armonk, N.Y.) announced their intended collaboration on opportunities to advance artificial intelligence, agentic AI, automation, material science and other mutually agreed domains in the industrial sector. The collaboration builds on a longstanding relationship and…