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Industrial use of IBCs
Intermediate buik containers (IBCs) are commonly used to contain and transport flowable solid materials across many industry sectors. Provided here is an overview of the applications for which different types can be used, as well as their benefits Intermediate bulk…
Focus On: Personal Protective Equipment
Coveralls for chemical and fire protection This company’s recently launched Tychem® 6000 SFR is a lightweight, hooded garment (photo) designed to help protect people working in challenging environments against multiple chemical and flash-fire hazards. Tychem garments may be suitable for…
Nanofibers dramatically increase catalytic activity for ultra-low-iridium electrolysis
Decreasing the dependence on expensive platinum-group metals like iridium is vital for the expansion of “green” hydrogen production via proton-exchange membrane (PEM) water electrolysis. Efforts to develop lower-iridium catalytic components for electrolysis have typically focused on mixing iridium into a…
Metal complex surfactants allow reactions in water without organic solvents
One way to develop safer, more-sustainable chemical processes is to substitute potentially harmful chemicals with less-risky alternatives. Organic solvents, which are widely used in industrial processes, can pose health, safety and environmental risks. Researchers at Rice University (Houston, Tex.; www.rice.edu)…
Plant Watch: April 2025
Plant Watch Saint-Gobain Ceramics to construct catalyst carriers plant in New York March 11, 2025 — Saint-Gobain S.A. (Courbevoie, France; www.saint-gobain.com), through its subsidiary Saint-Gobain NorPro, intends to build a new manufacturing facility in Wheatfield, N.Y. With an investment of…
Varo Energy to acquire Swedish energy firm Preem
VARO Energy (Zug, Switzerland) has reached agreement to acquire Preem Holding AB and Preem AB (Stockholm, Sweden), Sweden’s largest fuel company, through the purchase of 100% of the share capital of the parent company, Corral Petroleum Holdings AB (CPH), in…
TotalEnergies, Equinor and Shell launch the 2nd phase of Northern Lights CCS project
TotalEnergies SE (Paris) and its partners, Equinor and Shell, announced the Final Investment Decision (FID) of the second phase of the Northern Lights carbon capture and storage (CCS) development, which will increase the project transport and storage capacity from 1.5…
INOX Air Products commissions green-hydrogen plant at Asahi India Glass
INOX Air Products (INOXAP), India’s largest manufacturer of industrial, electronic and medical gases, announced the successful commissioning of its first-ever Green Hydrogen manufacturing Plant at Asahi India Glass Limited’s (AIS) greenfield float-glass facility at Soniyana in Chittorgarh, Rajasthan. AIS, India’s…
Johnson Matthey and bp technology selected for new U.K. SAF project
Johnson Matthey plc (JM; London) announced that Willis Sustainable Fuels (WSF) has selected JM and bp’s award-winning Fischer Tropsch (FT) CANS technology for WSF’s sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) project in Teesside, Northeast England. The project, which is expected to be…
Toyo Engineering awarded contract for anhydrous hydrogen fluoride plant in Korea
Toyo Engineering Korea Ltd., a subsidiary of Toyo Engineering Corp. (Tokyo), has been awarded a contract by BGFecospecialty (BGFesp) for the construction of the plant to produce 50,000 tons per year of anhydrous hydrogen fluoride (AHF). Toyo-Korea will be responsible…