Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany) is expanding its capacity to produce MetAMINO (DL-methionine) on Jurong Island, Singapore, by 40,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr) to around 340,000 m.t./yr. The high double-digit million euro investment in this further technological development is…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) has begun production of its first bio-based polyol, Sovermol, in Mangalore, India. This product serves the fast-growing demand of eco-friendly products for applications in New Energy Vehicles (NEV), windmills, flooring and protective industrial coatings in Asia…
Arlanxeo (Maastricht, the Netherlands) announced the launch of a new pouch cell line for developing innovative synthetic rubber solutions in lithium-ion batteries. The upgrades were safely completed at the Changzhou battery lab in China, enhancing local R&D capabilities. Driven by…
Covestro AG (Leverkusen, Germany) plans to further increase its global production capacity for polycarbonate (PC) specialty films to meet the rising demand in the Asia-Pacific region and worldwide. The company has started building new extrusion lines at the Map Ta…
Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany) is opening a new GMP facility to manufacture lipids for advanced, pharmaceutical drug delivery applications. The lipid launch facility is located at the company’s site in Hanau, Germany and provides customers with quantities of lipids…
EvolOH, Inc. (Menlo Park, Calif) will build a manufacturing plant in Massachusetts for the fabrication and assembly of the company’s anion-exchange membrane (AEM) electrolyzer stacks for producing green hydrogen. The proprietary compact cell-stacking and high-power density design used in EvolOH's…
HIF Global (Houston) and Siemens Energy (Munich) reached an agreement which would allow Siemens Energy to expand its electrolyzer manufacturing capacity beyond its previously announced plans. This agreement will assist HIF Global in obtaining sufficient capacity for the HIF Matagorda…
H2Pro (Caesarea, Israel) announces its agreement with conglomerate Sumitomo Corp.(SC) to partner on a variety of green hydrogen initiatives. H2Pro, which develops the breakthrough 95% efficient E-TAC electrolyzer system, is forming partnerships worldwide with forward-thinking industrial players to integrate green…
thyssenkrupp Steel has placed an order with SMS group (Düsseldorf, Germany) for the engineering, delivery and construction of the first hydrogen-powered direct reduction plant at the Duisburg location. This marks the start of one of the biggest industrial decarbonization projects…
Siemens Energy (Munich) announced that its compressors will be used at Occidental’s first large-scale Direct Air Capture (DAC) plant in Texas’ Permian Basin developed by 1PointFive, a subsidiary of Occidental. The two compressor packages will enable the plant to capture…