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Wood to operate and maintain world-scale plastics recycling facility in Ohio

Wood plc (Aberdeen, U.K.) has been awarded a three-year contract to operate and maintain the Freepoint Eco-Systems plant in Hebron, Ohio. The flagship facility spans 25 acres, utilizing a 260,000 square foot warehouse, making it one of the largest advanced…

Chemists observe a new type of single-electron covalent bond

At Hokkaido University in Japan, researchers led by Takuya Shimajiri and Associate Professor Yusuke Ishigaki have made the first-ever observation of a stable, single-electron carbon-carbon covalent bond. Covalent bonds, in which two atoms are bound together by sharing a pair…

DOE Announces $15 million federal funding to develop new systems for clean hydrogen production

The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM) today announced up to $15 million in federal funding to make clean hydrogen a more available and affordable fuel for electricity generation, industrial decarbonization, and transportation. Specifically,…

Worley providing pre-FEED for Liquid Wind e-methanol facility

Worley Ltd. (North Sydney, Australia) announced that it has entered into an agreement with Liquid Wind (Gothenburg, Sweden) to provide design and engineering services for the development of the NorthStarH2 e-methanol facility in Östersund, Sweden. Worley previously was awarded a…

Air Liquide to invest €60 million in ASU for Wanhua Chemical Group in China

Air Liquide S.A. (Paris, France) will invest close to €60 million to take over and operate an Air Separation Unit (ASU) within the context of a long-term contract with Wanhua Chemical Group (Wanhua), a global leading supplier of chemical innovative…

Metso acquires two businesses related to crushing and screening aggregate material

Metso (Espoo, Finland; www.metso.com) has signed an agreement to acquire Diamond Z and Screen Machine Industries from Crane Group (Columbus, Ohio; www.cranegroup.com), a family-owned investment company. Diamond Z increases Metso’s offering in mobile equipment for the organic recycling markets. Screen…

Suez, TAQA and Siemens join forces to advance desalination technology

SUEZ (Paris, France; www.suez.com), a leader in circular solutions for water management, Abu Dhabi National Energy Company (TAQA; Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates; www.taqa.com), one of the largest listed integrated utility companies in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, and…

Veolia supplies water-treatment facilities for pulp plant in Brazil

Veolia (Aubervilliers, France; www.veoliawatertechnologies.com) has made a significant contribution to Suzano, the world's largest pulp producer, by delivering advanced industrial and demineralized water and effluent treatment facilities for the company's new plant in Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil. This plant,…

Metso to build pelletizing plant for steel manufacturing in China

Metso Corp. (Espoo, Finland) has signed a contract with Beijing Shougang International Engineering Technology Co. Ltd (BSIET) for the delivery of a traveling grate pelletizing plant for Ruifeng Iron and Steel Group Co., Ltd in Tangshan, Hebei province, China.   Metso’s…

Braskem selected for DOE award negotiation to expand polyethylene production for LIB market

Braskem (Philadelphia, Pa.) has been selected by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Manufacturing and Energy Supply Chains to negotiate terms of a $50 million award under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. This landmark funding would expand Braskem's ultra-high molecular…