Accelera by Cummins, the zero-emissions business segment of Cummins Inc. (Columbus, Ind.), marked the start of operations for electrolyzer production in Fridley, Minnesota – its first electrolyzer production site in the United States. U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm,…
Sulzer Ltd. (Winterthur, Switzerland) recently signed an agreement with major lactic acid (LA) producer, Jindan New Biomaterials (Jindan), to enable the production of polylactic acid (PLA), a biobased plastic. Jindan will utilize Sulzer’s licensed PLA technology at its new manufacturing…
PPG (Pittsburgh, Pa.) announced a $44 million investment to upgrade five powder coating manufacturing facilities in the U.S. and Latin America. The projects are part of PPG’s strategic efforts to expand its powder coatings offerings and increase global production to…
Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.) announced it has signed an investment agreement with the Government of the Republic of Uzbekistan and Uzbekneftegaz JSC (UNG) to acquire, own and operate a natural gas-to-syngas processing facility in Qashqadaryo Province, Uzbekistan for US$1…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) has started up a new supercomputer at its Ludwigshafen site to replace the existing one. With 3 petaflops of computing power, the new supercomputer is considerably more powerful than its 1.75 petaflop predecessor. “Digital technologies are…
Wacker Chemie AG (Munich, Germany) recently marked the completion of the capacity expansion for vinyl-acetate-ethylene copolymer (VAE) dispersions and VAE dispersible polymer powders at Wacker’s Nanjing site in China. With a new reactor for dispersions and a new spray dryer…
Arlanxeo (Maastricht, the Netherlands) announced plans for the construction of a world-class rubber facility (the “Project”) in Jubail, Saudi Arabia. The 140,000 metric ton/yr plant will produce two high performance elastomers: Ultra High cis Polybutadiene (NdBR) and Lithium Butadiene Rubber…
McDermott International Inc. (Houston) has been awarded a project management consultancy (PMC) contract from India Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL) for the Maleic Anhydride (MAH) unit at the Panipat Refinery and Petrochemical Complex, located 62 miles (100 kilometers) from New Delhi, India.…
Plug Power Inc. (Latham, N.Y.) announced that it has landed three five megawatt (MW) electrolyzer projects with Ardagh Glass Limmared AB, Hydro Havrand, and the APEX Group for the first-ever use of industrial-scale green hydrogen in glass manufacturing, aluminum recycling,…
Nippon Shokubai Group (Otkyo) held an inauguration ceremony for the new acrylic acid (AA) facility with the production capacity of 100,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr) in Cilegon, Banten, Indonesia. Nippon Shokubai Group manufactures superabsorbent polymers (SAP) for disposable diapers…