GEA Group (Düsseldorf, Germany) is equipping two additional production lines of the energy storage and specialty chemicals group Albemarle Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.) for the production of lithium hydroxide. Lithium hydroxide is used as a starting material for the production of…
ALPLA Group (Hard, Austria) is expanding its presence in the global market for pharmaceutical packaging by establishing a joint venture with Inden Pharma, a well-known Spanish pharmaceutical packaging company. The copmanies are starting a long-term partnership for the certified production…
Shell Catalysts & Technologies, together with Technip Energies and Zachry Group, has been awarded a front-end engineering and design (FEED) contract for a carbon capture unit project at Calpine’s Baytown Energy Center in Texas, USA. The project will be designed to…
Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany) is expanding its capacity to produce MetAMINO (DL-methionine) on Jurong Island, Singapore, by 40,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr) to around 340,000 m.t./yr. The high double-digit million euro investment in this further technological development is…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) has begun production of its first bio-based polyol, Sovermol, in Mangalore, India. This product serves the fast-growing demand of eco-friendly products for applications in New Energy Vehicles (NEV), windmills, flooring and protective industrial coatings in Asia…
Arlanxeo (Maastricht, the Netherlands) announced the launch of a new pouch cell line for developing innovative synthetic rubber solutions in lithium-ion batteries. The upgrades were safely completed at the Changzhou battery lab in China, enhancing local R&D capabilities. Driven by…
Covestro AG (Leverkusen, Germany) plans to further increase its global production capacity for polycarbonate (PC) specialty films to meet the rising demand in the Asia-Pacific region and worldwide. The company has started building new extrusion lines at the Map Ta…
Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany) is opening a new GMP facility to manufacture lipids for advanced, pharmaceutical drug delivery applications. The lipid launch facility is located at the company’s site in Hanau, Germany and provides customers with quantities of lipids…
EvolOH, Inc. (Menlo Park, Calif) will build a manufacturing plant in Massachusetts for the fabrication and assembly of the company’s anion-exchange membrane (AEM) electrolyzer stacks for producing green hydrogen. The proprietary compact cell-stacking and high-power density design used in EvolOH's…
HIF Global (Houston) and Siemens Energy (Munich) reached an agreement which would allow Siemens Energy to expand its electrolyzer manufacturing capacity beyond its previously announced plans. This agreement will assist HIF Global in obtaining sufficient capacity for the HIF Matagorda…