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Carbon Clean awards design contract for major carbon-capture project to KBR

Carbon capture solutions provider Carbon Clean (London) has announced the award of a new contract to global engineering experts, KBR, Inc. (Houston) for the detailed design of a carbon capture plant for Ørsted's FlagshipONE project in Sweden. Carbon Clean was…

Changsu Industrial and TotalEnergies Corbion collaborate to advance adoption of bio-based films

Xiamen Changsu Industrial Pte Ltd (Changsu Industrial) and TotalEnergies Corbion (Gorinchem, the Netherlands) have announced a strategic cooperation agreement that will further advance the polylactic acid (PLA) industry. They will work together in the market promotion, product development, and research…

Lanxess doubles capacity for high-purity benzyl alcohol in North America

 Lanxess AG (Cologne, Germany) has doubled the production capacity for benzyl alcohol at its U.S. site in Kalama, Washington to support the growth of its established customer base in the Americas. The capacity expansion is the result of various technical…

Dow and New Energy Blue to develop renewable plastic materials from corn residue

Dow (Midland, Mich.) and New Energy Blue announced a long-term supply agreement in North America in which New Energy Blue will create bio-based ethylene from renewable agricultural residues. Dow expects to purchase this bio-based ethylene, reducing carbon emissions from plastic production,…

Chevron Lummus Global and Taqat announce license agreement for needle coke/synthetic graphite complex

Chevron Lummus Global LLC, (CLG) announced a recent contract award from TAQAT Development Company for a new 75,000-ton/yr needle coke/synthetic graphite complex in Rabigh, Saudi Arabia. Under the agreement, Chevron Lummus Global will provide pilot plant testing, licensing, basic design,…

Mol Group acquires Szarvas Biogas Plant

MOL Group has agreed on a deal with BayWa AG on the purchase of Szarvas Biogas Plant, a waste processing plant using organic wastes to produce electricity and heat through cogeneration with a peak electric power capacity of around 4…

Thyssenkrupp nucera partners with OxyChem to install next-generation chlor-alkali electrolyzers

Thyssenkrupp nucera AG & Co. KGaA (Dortmund, Germany) is partnering with OxyChem to install the latest generation eBiTAC v7 electrolyzers to support the conversion of its Battleground plant in LaPorte, Texas, from the diaphragm to membrane chlor-alkali technology. "The fact…

Lummus acquires water and wastewater-treatment technologies from Siemens Energy

Lummus Technology (Houston) announced that it has reached an agreement with Siemens Energy to acquire assets from its water solutions portfolio, including intellectual property and copyrights, trade secrets, and research and development properties. The technologies address water and wastewater needs…

BASF’s gas-treatment technology to be used by Linde and Heidelberg Materials’ large-scale CO2-capture plant

A CO2 capture process, jointly developed by Heidelberg Materials, Linde GmbH (Pullach) and BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, all Germany), and based on BASF’s advanced OASE blue technology, will be used for the first time at a large-scale CO2-capture facility operated by…

LG Water Solutions selected for major desalination project in Israel

LG Water Solutions, LG Chem’s business unit specialized in water treatment and a leading manufacturer of NanoH2O reverse osmosis (RO) membranes, announced that it has been selected as the exclusive RO membrane supplier for the Ashdod Rehabilitation Project in Israel,…