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Suez, TAQA and Siemens join forces to advance desalination technology

SUEZ (Paris, France; www.suez.com), a leader in circular solutions for water management, Abu Dhabi National Energy Company (TAQA; Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates; www.taqa.com), one of the largest listed integrated utility companies in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, and…

Veolia supplies water-treatment facilities for pulp plant in Brazil

Veolia (Aubervilliers, France; www.veoliawatertechnologies.com) has made a significant contribution to Suzano, the world's largest pulp producer, by delivering advanced industrial and demineralized water and effluent treatment facilities for the company's new plant in Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil. This plant,…

Metso to build pelletizing plant for steel manufacturing in China

Metso Corp. (Espoo, Finland) has signed a contract with Beijing Shougang International Engineering Technology Co. Ltd (BSIET) for the delivery of a traveling grate pelletizing plant for Ruifeng Iron and Steel Group Co., Ltd in Tangshan, Hebei province, China.   Metso’s…

Braskem selected for DOE award negotiation to expand polyethylene production for LIB market

Braskem (Philadelphia, Pa.) has been selected by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Manufacturing and Energy Supply Chains to negotiate terms of a $50 million award under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. This landmark funding would expand Braskem's ultra-high molecular…

Cabot Corp. selected for DOE award negotiation to support production of battery-grade CNTs

Cabot Corp. (Boston, Mass.) announced it has been selected for an award negotiation of up to $50 million by the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Manufacturing and Energy Supply Chains. This grant, part of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law,…

Woodland Biofuels investing $1.35 billion for RNG and green-hydrogen project in Louisiana

Woodland Biofuels Inc. (Toronto, Ont., Canada) announced a planned $1.35-billion investment at the Port of South Louisiana to establish what is said to be the world's largest carbon-negative renewable natural-gas plant and  ultra-green hydrogen facility.  Phase 1 of this project…

Kemira and IFF complete renewable polymers plant in Finland

As part of their strategic cooperation in providing new renewable alternatives to fossil-based products, Kemira Oyj (Helsinki, Finland) and International Flavors & Fragrances (IFF; New York) announced successful completion of a market-entry-scale industrial polymer plant. The unit is capable of…

AE Elemental opens recycling facility for EV batteries in Poland

AE Elemental, a joint venture of U.S.-based Ascend Elements (Westborough, Mass.) and Poland-based Elemental Strategic Metals, announced the grand opening of its first commercial-scale EV battery recycling facility. Located in Zawiercie, Poland, the newly constructed facility can process 12,000 metric…

Mitsui Chemical developing chemical-recycling scheme for ophthalmic lens materials

Mitsui Chemicals, Inc. (Tokyo) announced the development of a new technology that chemically recycles shavings and waste lenses generated from the production and processing of the company's MR-brand ophthalmic lens materials so that they may be repurposed into MR ophthalmic…

Kemira completes capacity expansion for alkenyl succinic anhydride sizing agents at Nanjing site

Kemira Oyj (Helsinki, Finland) has completed a multimillion euro investment to expand the production capacity of ASA (alkenyl succinic anhydride) sizing agents at its Nanjing site in Jiangsu province in China. The scope of the investment includes a full third…