Toray Industries, Inc. (Tokyo) announced plans to increase regular-tow carbon-fiber production capacity at two facilities. Capital investments will add lines to the Spartanburg plant in South Carolina, USA of Toray Composite Materials America, Inc. and the Gumi plant in Gyeongsangbuk-do,…
MilliporeSigma, the U.S. and Canada Life Science business of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt Germany, announced the $25-million expansion of its facility in Lenexa, Kansas, adding 98,000 square feet of lab space and production capability to manufacture cell culture media. “The Lenexa…
Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.) announcedits memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Carbfix (Reykjavík) , the world’s first carbon dioxide (CO2) mineral storage operator, to pursue integrated carbon capture and storage (CCS) solutions. Together, the companies look to minimize the impacts of…
Sika AG (Baar, Switzerland) has acquired Thiessen Team USA, a US manufacturer of shotcrete and grouting products for the mining industry in the USA. The company serves the Western US mining industry which produces essential minerals for the growing electric…
Rio Tinto (London) and Sumitomo Corp. (Tokyo) will build a first-of-a-kind hydrogen plant in Gladstone, Australia, as part of a A$111.1 million program aimed at lowering carbon emissions from the alumina refining process. The Yarwun Hydrogen Calcination Pilot Demonstration Program…
Exxon Mobil Corp. (Houston) announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Denbury Inc. (Plano, Tex.), an experienced developer of carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCS) solutions and enhanced oil recovery. The acquisition is an all-stock transaction valued…
3M (St. Paul, Minn.) says that its Brookings, S.D., plant is poised to expand, with 3M investing up to $468 million over the next three years. “3M is proud to have been a part of the growing community of Brookings…
Plug Power Inc. (Latham, N.Y.) has announced that it is supplying electrolyzers for new green-hydrogen projects in Australia and Europe. Firstly, Plug Power has been selected to supply two 5-megawatt (MW) proton exchange membrane (PEM) electrolyzer systems for green hydrogen…
Technip Energies (Paris) and LanzaTech Global, Inc. (Skokie, Ill.) signed a Joint Collaboration Agreement to create a new pathway to sustainable ethylene utilizing their combined technologies. Together LanzaTech’s carbon capture and utilization technology with Technip Energies’ Hummingbird® technology transform waste…
Stamicarbon BV (Sittard, the Netherlands), nitrogen technology licensor of MAIRE Group, continues to consolidate its presence in Sub-Saharan Africa. Following last year's award of a license and process design package (PDP) contracts to design a 4000 MTPD melt and granulation…