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LanzaJet and Technip Energies strengthen collaboration supporting SAF projects

LanzaJet, a leading sustainable fuels technology company and sustainable fuels producer, and Technip Energies (Paris) announced an agreement to strengthen their exclusive collaboration to support the global deployment of the LanzaJet Alcohol-to-Jet (ATJ) Process technology. LanzaJet will continue to integrate…

Greenfield Global completes major capacity expansion for high-purity alcohol

Greenfield Global Inc. (Toronto, Ont., Canada), a world-renowned manufacturer and distributor of specialty alcohols, solvents, and custom solutions, has successfully completed its 30 million gallon alcohol upgrade at its Johnstown distillery inOntario, increasing the company’s overall production of high-purity alcohol…

Dow starts up new MDI and prepolymers facilities in Freeport

 Dow (Midland, Mich.) announced the startup of a new MDI (diphenylmethane diisocyanate) distillation and prepolymers facility at its world-scale manufacturing site in Freeport, Texas. This investment optimizes Dow’s existing asset infrastructure and advances Dow’s leading positions in attractive applications in…

Metso expands equipment production facility in India

Metso (Espoo, Finland) has extended its manufacturing capacity of mobile track-mounted crushing and screening equipment in Alwar, India, by opening new manufacturing facilities. After the extension is complete, the total size of the Alwar factory is approximately 340,000 square meters,…

ExxonMobil announces startup of $2-billion chemicals expansion in Baytown

ExxonMobil Corp. (Spring, Tex.) announced the startup of two new chemical production units at its Baytown, Texas, manufacturing facility. The $2-billion expansion is part of ExxonMobil’s long-term growth plans to deliver higher-value products from its U.S. Gulf Coast refining and…

Verdagy to manufacture hydrogen electrolyzers at new facility in Silicon Valley

Advanced water electrolysis expert  Verdagy  (MossLanding, Calif.) announced its new facility opening in Newark, California, with more than 100,000 sq. ft. of advanced manufacturing space. Verdagy’s Silicon Valley factory will be the first to manufacture advanced water electrolyzers in large…

Borealis announces launch of materials recovery facility in Indonesia

Borealis Group (Vienna, Austria) has announced that  Project STOP and Banyuwangi Regent, Ipuk Fiestiandani, inaugurated one of Indonesia’s largest Material Recovery Facilities (MRF) in Songgon Municipality. Built in collaboration with the regional government of Banyuwangi, the facility is a significant…

2023 CEPCI updates: July (prelim.) and June (final)

The preliminary value for the CE Plant Cost Index (CEPCI) for July 2023 (most recent available) fell compared to the previous month’s value, the second straight monthly decline. To arrive at the decline in the overall CEPCI for July, decreases…

KBR’s hydrogen technology selected for the world’s first commercial ammonia-cracking unit by Hanwha Impact

KBR, Inc. (Houston) has been awarded a license and engineering design contract by Hanwha Impact Corp, for the world's first commercial ammonia cracking unit using KBR's leading H2ACT technology in Daesan, Republic of Korea. In this largest capacity ammonia cracking…

CF Industries and Posco evaluating joint clean-ammonia project in the U.S.

CF Industries Holdings, Inc. (Deerfield, Ill.) and POSCO Holdings Inc., South Korea’s largest steelmaker, as well as a leader in energy trading and power generation, announced that the companies are evaluating a joint venture to construct a low-carbon clean ammonia…