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ExxonMobil signs carbon capture agreement with iron manufacturer Nucor

ExxonMobil Corp. (Houston) announced that it will capture, transport and store up to 800,000 metric tons per year of CO2 from Nucor’s manufacturing site in Convent, Louisiana. The site produces direct reduced iron (DRI), a raw material used to make…

PPG inaugurates battery application center in China

PPG (Pittsburgh, Pa.) announced that it has inaugurated a battery pack application center (BPAC) in Tianjin, China. The $30-million facility features a full range of capabilities to test the application of PPG coatings technologies, materials and systems for electric vehicle…

Merck enters catalysis collaboration with California research institutions

Merck KGaA (Darmstadt, Germany announced a three-year collaboration with the research group of John Hartwig at University of California, Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California. The primary focus of this collaboration between the public research institutes associated with…

Toray announces breakthrough in PPS resin recycling process

Toray Industries, Inc. (Tokyo) announced that its marketing & sales subsidiary, Toray Resins Europe GmbH (TREU) has established a recycling process for glass-fiber-reinforced polyphenylene sulfide (PPS) resin waste from injection molding processes. TREU created its process by leveraging proprietary compounding…

Maire awarded contract for green-fertilizer project in North America

MAIRE S.p.A. announces that its subsidiary KT-Kinetics Technology (KT), part of the Integrated E&C Solutions (IE&CS) business unit, has been awarded the early engineering works for the realization of a new green fertilizer complex in North America by a group…

LyondellBasell pursues new electric furnace technology; collaborates with Technip Energies and Chevron Phillips Chemical

 LyondellBasell Industries N.V. (Rotterdam, the Netherlands) announced it has signed a memorandum of understanding with Technip Energies (Paris) and Chevron Phillips Chemical Co. LLC (CPChem; The Woodlands, Tex.) to potentially design, construct and operate a demonstration unit using Technip Energies'…

Braven Environmental and Koch Project Solutions to collaborate on advanced recycling project

Braven Environmental LLC (Braven), a pioneering provider in the advanced plastics recycling sector, announced the execution of a strategic framework agreement with Koch Project Solutions (KPS), a Koch Engineered Solutions company, to provide project management contracting services (PMC) for Braven’s…

Par Pacific completes acquisition of ExxonMobil Billings Refinery

Par Pacific Holdings, Inc. (Houston) announced that it has successfully closed its previously announced acquisition of the Billings refinery and associated marketing and logistics assets from ExxonMobil Corp. (Irving, Tex.) and two of its subsidiaries. The base purchase price of…

Carbios and Indorama Ventures form JV to build first-of-its-kind PET biorecycling plant in France

Carbios (St-Beauzire, France) and Indorama Ventures Ltd. (IVL; Bangkok, Thailand) announced the signing of a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to form a Joint Venture (JV) for the construction of the world’s first PET (polyethylene terephthalate) biorecycling plant in France1.…

Choosing a career path

The past couple of months have been prime time for academic graduations. Graduation ceremonies, aptly named commencements, mark a time when graduates look forward to starting a new phase of their journeys. For some, it means moving on to a…