Origin Materials (West Sacramento, Calif.) and Indorama Ventures Ltd. (IVL; Bangkok, Thailand) signed a strategic memorandum of understanding (MOU) to explore initiatives related to the rapid commercialization of low-carbon, bio-based materials. Initiatives include evaluating the use of existing Indorama Ventures’…
Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.) announced it will build, own and operate two new world-scale carbon monoxide (CO) production facilities in Texas. The facilities in La Porte and Texas City will produce a combined over 70 million standard cubic feet…
Fujifilm Corp. (Tokyo) announced that the company has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the semiconductor high purity process chemicals (HPPC) business, CMC Materials KMG Corporation (KMG), from Entegris, Inc. (Billerica, Mass.) for $700 million. Through the acquisition of…
Hexcel Corp. (Stamford, Conn.) announced the grand opening of a completed expansion at its engineered core operations plant in Morocco to meet the growing demand for lightweight advanced composite materials for the aerospace industry. The 13,000-square-meter expansion in the Midparc…
Technip Energies (Paris) has been awarded a front-end engineering design (FEED) contract by VF Carbon Capture A/S for a CO2 capture plant to be connected to I/S Vestforbrænding’s existing waste-to-energy facility in Glostrup, Denmark. The agreement between the two companies…
KBR, Inc. (Houston) announced that it has been awarded a contract by Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL) to implement its market-leading supercritical solvent deasphalting (SDA) technology, ROSE, at HPCL's Mumbai Refinery. Under the terms of the contract, KBR will provide…
Metso Corp. (Helsinki, Finland) has been awarded an order for key concentrator plant equipment by Zijin Mining Group for their Julong copper project in the Tibetan Autonomous region. The value of the order is approximately EUR 85 million, of which…
Zero Petroleum Ltd. (London) announced that it is opening its first synthetic fuel facility (Plant Zero.1) in June. The facility will include the world’s first fully-featured synthetic fuel plant, leading the way to providing the technical and commercial blueprint for…
TotalEnergies SA (Paris, France) has acquired Spain-based Iber Resinas, an actor in the mechanical recycling of plastics for sustainable applications. With this transaction, TotalEnergies will increase its production of circular polymers in Europe, extend its range of recycled products, and…
ABB, Inc. (Zug, Switzerland) is collaborating with Lhyfe (Paris), a world pioneer in the production of renewable hydrogen, and Skyborn, a global leader in renewable energy, to jointly realize and optimize one of Europe’s most ambitious renewable hydrogen projects ever,…