KBR, Inc. (Houston) announced it has been awarded an engineering and design services contract from The Chemours Co. (Wilmington, Del.) to increase capacity and advance technology for its industry-leading Nafion ion-exchange materials platform. The contract is part of Chemours’ $200…
Toyo Engineering Corp. announced that its wholly owned subisdiary Toyo Engineering India Pvt. Ltd. has been awarded a contract by ExxonMobil Lubricants Private Limited (EMLPL) for the Engineering, Procurement, Construction and Commissioning (EPCC) of 159,000 kL/year lubricant manufacturing plant at…
Linde plc (Guildford, U.K.) announced that it has signed a long-term agreement to supply green hydrogen to Evonik, a leading specialty chemicals company. Linde will build, own and operate a nine-megawatt alkaline electrolyzer plant on Jurong Island, Singapore. The plant…
Technip Energies (Paris) and Casale SA (Lugano, Switzerland) announced a new partnership to jointly license oxidative reforming-based technologies; autothermal reforming (ATR) and partial oxidation (POx) technologies for the blue hydrogen market.ATR is a process to produce syngas that contains hydrogen,…
Henkel AG (Düsseldorf, Germany) has signed an agreement on the sale of its business activities in Russia to a consortium of local financial investors. In April 2022, the company had announced the decision to exit from Russia. The consortium that…
Lummus Technology (Houston) announced the startup of Shenghong Refining & Chemical (Lianyungang) Co., Ltd.'s 2,800,000-ton/yr paraxylene unit. The grassroots unit, which is the world's largest double reslurry paraxylene crystallization unit, is part of Shenghong's refining and petrochemical integrated project in Lianyungang,…
Eastman Chemical Co. (Kingsport, Tenn.) announced the successful completion of the closed-loop recycling project for automotive mixed plastic waste. Through a collaborative effort, Eastman, the United States Automotive Materials Partnership LLC (USAMP), automotive recycler PADNOS and global automotive interior supplier Yanfeng,…
Landsvirkjun (Reykjavík, Iceland) and Linde (Guildford, U.K.) have signed a collaboration agreement that will facilitate the energy transition in Iceland through the development of clean hydrogen and e-fuel projects. Such projects will be pivotal in decarbonizing the transport sector and…
Technip Energies (Paris) has been awarded a contract by Ningbo Juhua Chemical & Science Co., Ltd. (Juhua) for a 1,3-propanediol (PDO) plant with a capacity of 72,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr) and a 150,000-m.t./yr polytrimethylene terephthalate (PTT) plant in…
Johnson Matthey plc (JM; London) has extended its partnership with SFC Energy to include a commitment from JM to develop and supply proton exchange membrane (PEM) components to support SFC Energy’s growth in hydrogen fuel cells. SFC Energy AG is…