Shin-Etsu Chemical (Tokyo) announced it would make a new ¥100 billion investment in its silicones portfolio, one of the core parts of its Functional Materials business segment. In February 2022, Shin-Etsu announced an investment plan worth ¥80 billion in order…
Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.) was awarded an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract by Mitsubishi Chemical Group Corp. (MCG Group; Toyko) for its SoarnoL ethylene vinyl alcohol copolymer (EVOH) facility in Saltend Chemicals Park, Hull, United Kingdom. Fluor booked its…
Koppö Energia of Finland has selected international technology group Andritz (Graz, Austria) to perform the Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) for a large-scale plant to produce green hydrogen. This order is a milestone in Andritz’s strategy to become a leading industrial…
The HydrogeNext conference is taking place August 16–17 in Savannah, Ga. as part of the larger Experience Power Week event (www.experience-power.com). Hydrogen is expected to play a major role in decarbonizing global energy systems, and the technical sessions and panel…
Braskem S.A. (São Paulo, Brazil) announced that it concluded a 30% increase in production capacity of its bio-based ethylene plant, located in the Petrochemical Complex of Triunfo, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. The US$ 87 million investment aims to meet…
Saipem S.p.A. (San Donato Milanese, Italy) and Stockholm Exergi, the district of Stockholm’s energy company, have signed a Letter of Intent for a large-scale CO2 capture plant to be installed at Stockholm Exergi’s existing bio-cogeneration plant located in the Swedish…
Advanced Refining Technologies LLC (ART), a joint venture of Chevron Corp. and specialty chemicals leader W. R. Grace & Co. (Grace), have launched Endeavor, a hydroprocessing catalyst solution to produce renewable diesel (RD) and sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) from 100%…
Within the framework of their strategy to provide practical solutions for cleaner energy, ECARU (Egyptian Company for Solid Waste Recycling), Qalaa Holdings, and Axens (Rueil-Malmaison, France) signed a cooperation protocol to carry out technical and economic studies for a project…
SABIC (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) has launched a pilot project with Circularise, a blockchain software provider, to evaluate the use of their technology in tracing the carbon footprint of specific material streams from end to end. Generating and reporting Scope 3…
Koch Modular (Houston) is launching a new Carbon Capture Demonstration Scale System, aptly named Project Enterprise. This project represents a significant milestone in the advancement of carbon capture technology, and it is poised to achieve a remarkable reduction in carbon…