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Ohmium to collaborate with Ten08 Energy for 500-MW clean ammonia project in Texas

Ohmium International (Newark, Calif.), agreen hydrogen company that designs, manufactures and deploys advanced Proton Exchange Membrane (PEM) electrolyzers, has announced a strategic partnership with Ten08 Energy (Houston) related to clean ammonia production. This collaboration will see Ohmium's PEM electrolyzer solutions…

Covestro to construct new TPU application development center in South China

Covestro AG (Leverkusen, Germany) will start the construction of a new Thermoplastic Polyurethanes (TPU) APAC application development (AD) Center in Guangzhou in South China. It is the second investment announcement for TPU in quick succession: Just last year the company…

Thermax and Ceres partnering on large-scale solid-oxide electrolysis manufacturing in India

Thermax Ltd. (Pune, India) has announced a strategic collaboration with Ceres Power Holdings plc (Horsham, U.K.), a leading developer of clean energy technology. The two companies have entered a non-exclusive, global license agreement for Thermax to manufacture, sell and service…

Shell selects Worley for two transformational projects at Energy and Chemicals Park Rheinland

Worley Ltd. (North Sydney, Australia) announced that it will support Shell with two transformational projects — the upgrade program at its Energy and Chemicals Park Rheinland, converting the site into a base oil production unit; and enabling the production of…

Wacker successfully captures carbon dioxide from silicon production process

Wacker Chemie AG (Munich, Germany; www.wacker.com) has successfully captured carbon dioxide (CO2) generated from silicon production. The project, which was enabled by the technology and expertise of the SLB and Aker Carbon Capture Joint Venture (SLB-ACC JV), involved a pilot…

Braskem opens renewable innovation center in Lexington, Mass.

Braskem (São Paulo, Brazil; www.braskem.com.br) the largest polyolefins producer in the Americas, as well as a market leader and pioneer producer of biopolymers on an industrial scale, today announced the opening of its Renewable Innovation Center located in Lexington, Mass. Braskem's…

BASF inaugurates new plant for alkyl ethanolamines at its Antwerp Verbund site

  BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) has inaugurated a new world-scale production plant for alkyl ethanolamines at its Verbund site in Antwerp, Belgium. This new investment will increase the company’s global annual production capacity for alkyl ethanolamines, including dimethyl ethanolamine…

KBR and Samsung Heavy Industries studying floating blue-ammonia project

KBR, Inc. (Houston) has been awarded a conceptual study contract for floating blue ammonia production from Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI), one of the world's largest shipbuilders in South Korea. The award is part of SHI's diversification in the ocean energy…

Asahi Kasei and De Nora enter collaboration to develop containerized electrolyzers for hydrogen production

Asahi Kasei Corp. (Tokyo) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Industrie De Nora S.p.A (Milan, Italy) concerning the joint development, study, evaluation, and sale of small-scale pressurized alkaline water electrolyzers. De Nora possesses technical expertise and knowledge in…

Nippon Shokubai to construct new plant for lithium-ion battery electrolyte

Nippon Shokubai Ltd. (Osaka, Japan) is proceeding with a project to build a new plant in Fukuoka Prefecture with the goal of commencing commercial operations by 2028 for Lithium bis(fluorosulfonyl)imide (LiFSI; Product name: IONEL), which is used as the electrolyte…