TotalEnergies (Paris, France) and Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.) have signed a 15-year agreement for the annual supply in Europe of 70,000 tons of green hydrogen starting in 2030. This first long-term deal follows TotalEnergies’ call for tenders for the…
Cepsa continues to develop and diversify its chemicals business by starting the construction of a new isopropyl alcohol (IPA) plant, the first of its kind in Spain. This product is used not only in hydroalcoholic gels, but also in household…
Ecolab (St. Paul, Minn.) announced that its Purolite resin business, together with Repligen Corporation, a life sciences company focused on bioprocessing technology leadership, today announced the commercial launch of Purolite’s DurA Cycle, a protein A chromatography resin for large-scale purification…
Materialise, a global leader in 3D printing software and services, and ArcelorMittal Powders, a business unit of ArcelorMittal established to produce high-quality steel powders, have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to create solutions to optimize laser powder bed fusion…
Hitachi Energy has joined the U.S. Department of Energy’s ‘H2@Scale in Texas and Beyond’ initiative with GTI Energy, Frontier Energy, The University of Texas Austin, and other industry stakeholders and partners. For the project, Hitachi Energy is contributing its market-leading…
Metso Corp. (Espoo, Finland) is launching the Metso pCAM plant, an intelligent solution for the manufacturing of precursor cathode active material (pCAM), which is needed in the production of lithium-ion batteries. Centered around an energy-efficient pCAM reactor, PSI 1000 particle…
Altris AB (Uppsala, Sweden), a developer and prototype manufacturer of sodium-ion batteries, and Stora Enso Oyj (Helsinki, Finland), a provider of renewable products in packaging, biomaterials and wooden construction, are proud to announce a partnership. Together, the two companies will…
Advanced plastics-recycling specialist Agilyx ASA announced that its depolymerization technology was successfully demonstrated during commissioning of Toyo Styrene’s 10 ton-per-day chemical recycling facility in Japan. The recycling plant will convert post-use polystyrene into a styrene monomer enabled by Agilyx depolymerization…
In the quest to transform sugar and carbon dioxide into fumaric acid, an important intermediate for chemical production, in this case, using the bacterium Basfia succiniciproducens, BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) is collaborating with Saarland University, University of Marburg and the…
Air Liquide S.A. (Paris) will build a new industrial-gas production facility in the United States to supply the new fab of one of the world’s leading semiconductor manufacturers. In the framework of a long-term contract, the plant will provide large…