Clariant AG (Muttenz, Switzerland) has announced the official opening of its production facility for halogen-free flame retardants in Daya Bay, Huizhou, China. The CHF 60 million investment into the plant’s first production line will provide local customers with access to…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) is supplying biomass-balanced tetrahydrofuran (THF BMB) to the ROICA Division of Asahi Kasei Corp. (Tokyo). Asahi Kasei will use BASF’s THF BMB to produce its mass balance grade premium sustainable stretch fiber under the ROICA™ brand.…
Lummus Technology (Houston) has announced a contract from Sinopec Ningbo Zhenhai Refining & Chemical Co. Ltd. (Sinopec NZRCC), a subsidiary of the Sinopec Group and its flagship refining and petrochemical company. Sinopec NZRCC will license Lummus' Novolen technology for a…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) announced that it is the first company to produce metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) on a production scale of several hundred tons per year. MOFs are highly crystalline structures with nanometer-sized pores and a large surface area. This…
thyssenkrupp nucera (Dortmund, Germany) and Neste Corp. (Espoo, Finland) plan to collaborate on a project to incorporate a 120 megawatt (MW) water electrolyzer into Neste’s Porvoo refinery in Finland. Neste, the leading global producer of sustainable aviation fuel, renewable diesel…
KBR, Inc. (Houston) announced that its K-GreeN technology has been selected by Madoqua Power2X (Madoqua), a joint venture of Madoqua Renewables, Power2X and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners, for Madoqua’s green ammonia project at Sines Industrial Zone in Portugal. Under the terms…
Topsoe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark) and Aramco (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) have annoucned a new collaboration to demonstrate the eREACT technology for the production of low-carbon hydrogen (or blue hydrogen). Topsoe’s eREACT technology is a groundbreaking technology platform for production of low-carbon…
BASF SE (Lugwigshafen, Germany) and Ningbo Refining and Chemical Co. Ltd (NZRCC) have signed a technology license agreement to produce isononyl alcohol (INA) utilizing BASF's proprietary oxo-technology. NZRCC is a joint venture between the City of Ningbo and Zhenhai Refining…
Samsung Engineering (Seoul, South Korea) and Svante, Inc. (Burnaby, B.C., Canada) announced that they have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to collaborate to identify, develop, and deliver commercial carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) projects in Asia and the…
Technip Energies (Paris) has been awarded Engineering, Procurement Services and Construction Management (EPsCm) contracts by Galp for an advanced biofuels unit and a green hydrogen unit for its Sines refinery in Portugal. Both projects are part of Galp’s program to…