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Verdagy to provide electrolyzers for Petron Scientech biorefinery

Verdagy (Moss Landing, Calif.) announced it has entered into a strategic partnership with Petron Scientech, a company with over thirty-five years of experience in renewable sustainable chemical process technologies. Petron will use over 320 MW of Verdagy's eDynamic electrolyzers to…

LanzaTech announces intent to spin off synthetic biology business in JV with Tharsis Capital

LanzaTech Global, Inc. (Chicago, Ill.) announced its intent to form LanzaX, a business unit dedicated to its wholly-owned synthetic biology platform. LanzaTech intends to spin out LanzaX from its core biorefining business as a joint venture with Tharsis Capital LLC…

Three water-resiliency research projects awarded WRF funding

Brown and Caldwell (Walnut Creek Calif.), an engineering consulting firm creating and delivering water and environmental solutions throughout North America and the Pacific, has been awarded $650,000 in funding from The Water Research Foundation (WRF) to lead three innovative research…

Sparkle Clean Tech licenses oil and gas water-treatment technologies from Siemens Energy

Sparkle Clean Tech (Mumbai, India), a global provider of process technologies and value-driven energy solutions for upstream Oil and Gas customers, has reached an agreement with Siemens Energy (Muhicn, Germany) to license Intellectual Property from their upstream oil and gas…

Johnson Matthey technology selected for major e-methanol project in Spain

Johnson Matthey plc (JM; London) announced that its e-methanol technology has been selected by Reolum for the next phase of its La Robla Nueva Energia (NE) project. Located in the Spanish region of Castilla y León, it will be one…

Metso to deliver copper-concentrator plant equipment to Mazoon Mining in Oman

Metso Corp. (Espoo, Finland) has signed an agreement with Mazoon Mining, a wholly owned subsidiary of Minerals Development Oman (MDO), to supply key process equipment for their copper concentrator plant located in Yanqul, near Sohar Industrial City. The value of…

Sika opens two new manufacturing plants in Singapore and China

Sika AG (Baar, Switzerland) has opened two new manufacturing plants in Singapore and in Xi'an, Northwest China. The newly built plant in Singapore specializes in the production of mortars, while the Xi'an facility manufactures a full range of Sika products,…

Lummus and Versalis announce partnership on phenolics technologies

Lummus Technology (Houston, Tex.; www.lummustechnology.com), a global provider of process technologies and value-driven energy solutions, and Versalis (San Donato Milanese, Italy; www.versalis.eni.com), Eni's chemical company, announced a strategic partnership to license all of Versalis' technologies in the phenolics value chain.…

Chemical Safety Board announces new information product on serious industrial chemical incidents

Earlier this week, the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB; Washington, D.C.; www.csb.gov) announced that it is launching a new initiative to give the public more details about the serious chemical incidents that have been reported to the…

DuPont provides update on separation plans; accelerates Electronics split while Water business will remain

DuPont (Wilmington, Del.) announced the acceleration of the separation of its Electronics business and is now targeting November 1, 2025 to complete the transaction. This decision recognizes the size and importance of Electronics to the overall shareholder value creation opportunity…