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MHI to collaborate with Chiyoda for licensing of CO2-capture technologies

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI; Tokyo) has concluded a General License Agreement (GLA) with Chiyoda Corp. (Yokohama, Japan). Under this strategic collaboration agreement, MHI will grant license of "KM CDR Process" and "Advanced KM CDR Process" to Chiyoda, which is…

INOX Air Products to supply green-hydrogen to Asahi India Glass

Asahi India Glass Ltd. (AIS), India’s leading glass manufacturer, and INOX Air Products (INOXAP), India’s largest manufacturer of industrial and medical gases, have entered into a 20-year offtake agreement for supply of Green Hydrogen, to AIS’s greenfield float-glass facility in…

Ashland signs definitive agreement to sell nutraceuticals business

Ashland Global Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.) announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to sell its nutraceuticals business to Turnspire Capital Partners LLC. The transaction is expected to close in the calendar third quarter 2024, subject to the satisfaction…

Shell to sell interest in Singapore Energy and Chemicals Park to CAPGC

Shell Singapore Pte Ltd, a subsidiary of Shell plc, has reached an agreement to sell its Energy and Chemicals Park in Singapore to CAPGC Pte. Ltd., a joint venture company between Chandra Asri Capital Pte. Ltd. and Glencore Asian Holdings…

BASF invests in capacity expansion for paraffin inhibitors at Tarragona plant

BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) plans to expand the global production capacity of its Basoflux range of paraffin inhibitors at its site in Tarragona, Spain. This investment will enable BASF’s Oilfield Chemicals business to meet the current and future demand of…

Sandbox project launched for promoting open-source AI innovation

Last month, the LF AI & Data Foundation (lfaidata.foundation) under the auspices of the Linux Foundation (San Fransciso, Calif.; linuxfoudation.org) launched the Open Platform for Enterprise Artificial Intelligence (OPEA; opea.dev) as its latest Sandbox Project. The initiative is aimed at…

Wacker expands production capacity for biopharmaceuticals in San Diego

Wacker Chemie AG (Munich, Germany) is increasing capacities in the field of biopharmaceuticals for advanced therapies. Wacker Biotech US, a subsidiary specializing in the fermentative production of plasmid DNA (pDNA), is expanding its mRNA and protein production. As a contract…

Carbon Clean achieves fabrication milestone with major eMethanol project’s first carbon-capture unit module

Carbon Clean (London) has achieved a fabrication milestone on Ørsted’s FlagshipONE project, Europe’s largest commercial-scale eMethanol facility under construction. The first equipment has been mounted on the structural steel of the first module, marking the start of the module assembly…

Aker Solutions to upgrade Equinor’s Mongstad refinery

Aker Solutions ASA (Lysaker, Norway) has been awarded a substantial EPCIC contract by Equinor to upgrade the wastewater treatment plant facilities and lower the environmental impact of the Mongstad refinery on the west coast of Norway. The Mongstad refinery, situated…

Carbios and Hündgen enter supply agreement for world’s first PET biorecycling plant

Carbios (St-Beauzire, France) and Hündgen Entsorgungs GmbH & Co. KG (Hündgen), a waste management expert in logistics, sorting services and the recycling of recyclable materials from waste mixtures, announce the signing of a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding relating to the…