Coveralls for chemical and fire protection This company’s recently launched Tychem® 6000 SFR is a lightweight, hooded garment (photo) designed to help protect people working in challenging environments against multiple chemical and flash-fire hazards. Tychem garments may be suitable for…
The new CablePro tubular drag conveyor (photo) is designed with components that offer chemical compatibility, including corrosion-resistant coatings and polished stainless-steel tubing. It is equipped with self-lubricating disks, which are injection-molded directly onto a pre-stretched, oil-lubricated stainless-steel braided cable with…
Plant Watch Saint-Gobain Ceramics to construct catalyst carriers plant in New York March 11, 2025 — Saint-Gobain S.A. (Courbevoie, France; www.saint-gobain.com), through its subsidiary Saint-Gobain NorPro, intends to build a new manufacturing facility in Wheatfield, N.Y. With an investment of…
VARO Energy (Zug, Switzerland) has reached agreement to acquire Preem Holding AB and Preem AB (Stockholm, Sweden), Sweden’s largest fuel company, through the purchase of 100% of the share capital of the parent company, Corral Petroleum Holdings AB (CPH), in…
TotalEnergies SE (Paris) and its partners, Equinor and Shell, announced the Final Investment Decision (FID) of the second phase of the Northern Lights carbon capture and storage (CCS) development, which will increase the project transport and storage capacity from 1.5…
INOX Air Products (INOXAP), India’s largest manufacturer of industrial, electronic and medical gases, announced the successful commissioning of its first-ever Green Hydrogen manufacturing Plant at Asahi India Glass Limited’s (AIS) greenfield float-glass facility at Soniyana in Chittorgarh, Rajasthan. AIS, India’s…
Johnson Matthey plc (JM; London) announced that Willis Sustainable Fuels (WSF) has selected JM and bp’s award-winning Fischer Tropsch (FT) CANS technology for WSF’s sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) project in Teesside, Northeast England. The project, which is expected to be…
Toyo Engineering Korea Ltd., a subsidiary of Toyo Engineering Corp. (Tokyo), has been awarded a contract by BGFecospecialty (BGFesp) for the construction of the plant to produce 50,000 tons per year of anhydrous hydrogen fluoride (AHF). Toyo-Korea will be responsible…
Shin-Etsu Chemical Co. (Tokyo) will make investments at two of its bases, the subsidiary SE Tylose GmbH & Co. KG (Wiesbaden, Germany) and the Naoetsu Plant (in Joetsu, Niigata Prefecture, Japan) to strengthen its pharmaceutical cellulose business. In Germany, a…
O-I Glass, Inc. () and Linde plc announced plans to install Linde’s proprietary OPTIMELT Thermochemical Regenerator (TCR) technology at O-I’s container glass plant in Holzminden, Germany. This collaboration is expected to significantly reduce both fuel consumption and fuel-based Scope 1…