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Vynova plans investment to construct new alcoholates plant in Germany

Vynova Group, part of the International Chemical Investors Group (ICIG), plans to invest a high double-digit million euro amount in the construction of a plant complex for the production of all common sodium and potassium alcoholates at the Lülsdorf site…

CVR Renewables selects Honeywell technology for potential biofuels site in Kansas

Honeywell International Inc. announced that CVR Renewables CVL, LLC, a subsidiary of CVR Energy, Inc., will utilize Honeywell’s Ecofining technology in its evaluation of a potential project to produce biofuels from feedstocks such as distillers corn oil, at its facility…

Thermo Fisher Scientific opens battery solutions center in Seoul

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (Waltham, Mass.) announced the opening of its Battery Customer Experience Center in Seoul, South Korea. The advanced facility will assist battery manufacturers in driving innovative solutions that support the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal of providing…

Saint-Gobain acquires construction-chemicals firm in Saudi Arabia

Saint-Gobain S.A. (Courbevoie, France) has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Izomaks Industries LLC (Kingdom of Saudi Arabia), a leading manufacturer of waterproofing products (floors, roofs) in Saudi Arabia. Izomaks operates two manufacturing facilities in Riyadh, employs around 140…

TESCanada announces new green-hydrogen project in Quebec

TESCanada H2 Inc. (Montreal, Queb., Canada), a Canadian developer of projects aimed at accelerating the energy transitio has announced the new green-hydrogen initative Projet Mauricie. Totaling $4 billion in investments for the region, the Projet Mauricie consists of the construction…

AGC demonstrates recycling of used solar-panel glass

AGC, Inc. (Tokyo) has announced that it has succeeded for the first time in Japan in a demonstration test to recycle about 24 tons of used solar panel cover glass into raw material cullet (pieces of broken glass). The test…

Sparkplug 3.0 specification published as international standard, Eclipse Foundation says

The Eclipse Foundation (Brussels, Belgium; www.eclipse.org) one of the world’s largest open source software foundations, in collaboration with the Eclipse Sparkplug Working Group (sparkplug.eclipse.org) recently announced that the Sparkplug® 3.0 specification has been published as an International Standard. This publication is the…

Yara to divest Ivory Coast fertilizer business

Yara International ASA (Oslo, Norway) has announced the divestment of its fertilizer import and distribution subsidiary in Ivory Coast. Recognizing the ever-evolving challenges in the global food industry, Yara has undertaken a thorough analysis of its operations, considering market dynamics,…

Sulzer supplying mass-transfer technology for CO2-capture plant in Austria

Sulzer Ltd. (Winterthur, Switzerland)  announced that its mass transfer technologies are being leveraged by Messer Group GmbH (Bad Soden, Germany) , the world's largest privately owned industrial gas specialist, in collaboration with a manufacturer of inorganic chemicals to enable innovative…

Lummus and Citroniq announce licensing and engineering agreements for green polypropylene plants

Lummus Technology (Houston) and Citroniq Chemicals announced that the two companies have signed licensing and engineering agreements for green polypropylene plants in the U.S. The first plant, scheduled for completion in 2027, will produce 400,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr)…