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Sasol to supply catalysts for world’s largest power-to-liquids facility
Sasol Chemicals, a business of Sasol Ltd. (Johannesburg, South Africa), and German startup Ineratec GmbH (Karlsruhe, Germany) have signed a Letter of Intent (LoI) committing to the supply of Sasol’s next generation catalyst as soon as the development cycle is…
Mangrove Lithium to significantly expand North American refining capacity
Mangrove Lithium (Delta, B.C., Canada) announced a major expansion initiative to address North America’s growing need for lithium refining. The new facility will be capable of producing 20,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr) of battery-grade lithium, enough to power over…
Solvay and Air Products collaborating to reduce scope 3 emissions in France
Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium) has taken a new step to reduce scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions by incorporating biogenic CO₂ provided by Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.) into its soda ash and bicarbonate production plant in Dombasle, France. The initiative…
AstraZeneca invests $50 billion to expand manufacturing capacities across the U.S.
AstraZeneca (Cambridge, U.K.) announced $50 billion of investment in the United States by 2030, building on America’s global leadership in medicines manufacturing and R&D. This investment is expected to create tens of thousands of new, highly skilled direct and indirect…
Veolia to equip France’s largest treated-wastewater reuse project
The Albères-Côte Vermeille-Illibéris Community of Municipalities (CCACVI) and Veolia Water Technologies broke ground on an ambitious treated-wastewater reuse program. Located in Argelès-sur-Mer, one of France’s premier beach destinations, this strategic facility will enable the reuse of 1.3 million cubic meters…
Vacuum pump pioneer and Busch Group co-founder dies at 96
The Busch Group (Maulburg, Germany) has announced the death of its co-founder and co-owner Dr. Karl Busch, who died on July 17, 2025, at the age of 96. The engineer, inventor and entrepreneur was born on April 20, 1929, in…
TotalEnergies and Emerson enter strategic collaboration for advanced digitalization
TotalEnergies SE (Paris) and Emerson’s Aspen Technology business have announced a strategic collaboration to deploy advanced digital technologies for the continuous, real-time collection of data from TotalEnergies’ industrial sites. The objective is to harness the value of that data to…
LanzaTech receives U.K. grant supporting SAF production projects
LanzaTech Global, Inc. (Skokie, Ill.) announced it has received a grant of £6.4 million from the UK government's Advanced Fuels Fund (AFF), operated by the Department for Transport (DfT). The grant will accelerate the development of LanzaTech’s DRAGON 1 & 2…
AGC sells polycarbonates business to Sumitomo Bakelite
AGC Inc. (Tokyo) announced that it has reached an agreement with Sumitomo Bakelite Co. (Tokyo) to transfer its polycarbonate business. AGC's polycarbonate business offers an extensive lineup in a wide range of fields that include industry and electronics in addition…
BASF reaches mechanical completion on acrylics complex at Zhanjiang Verbund site
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) has reached a major construction milestone at the Zhanjiang Verbund site with the successful mechanical completion of the first batch of plants in the acrylics complex, including the glacial acrylic acid (GAA) and butyl acrylate (BA)…