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Ecolab and Siemens jointly launch sustainability modeling platform

Ecolab, Inc. (St. Paul, Minn.) and Siemens AG (Munich, Germany) announced a strategic partnership that will help customers accelerate their progress toward sustainability and productivity goals. Together, the companies are launching Climate Intelligence, powered by ECOLAB3D and Siemens gPROMS, which…

Air Products investing $500-million in a new green-hydrogen facility in New York

Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.) announced plans to invest approximately $500 million to build, own and operate a 35 metric ton per day facility to produce green liquid hydrogen at a greenfield site in Massena, New York, as well as…

Johnson Matthey begins fuel-cell recycling operations in China

Johnson Matthey (JM; London) begun fuel cell recycling in China. Located in Zhangjiagang, Jiangsu province, the plant is refining and recycling the platinum group metal content from membrane electrode assemblies (MEA), a key component of an automotive fuel cell, from…

Honeywell opens plant in Baton Rouge to produce new low-GWP propellant

Honeywell International, Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.) announced the opening of a plant in Baton Rouge, La., that is the company’s first large-scale manufacturing site for Solstice Air (HFO-1234ze(E) cGMP), a near-zero global-warming-potential (GWP) medical propellant for use in respiratory inhalers. Solstice…

MilliporeSigma announces commercial capacity expansion in France

 MilliporeSigma, the U.S. and Canada Life Science business of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, announced that its Life Science business sector has opened a commercial facility for its new Millipore CTDMO Services offering at the company’s site in Martillac, France. The 2,700-square-meter…

KBR wins contract for blue ammonia project in the U.S.

KBR, Inc. (Houston) announced that it has been awarded a technology contract by Tecnimont S.p.A. for OCI NV’s low-carbon blue ammonia project in the United States. Under the terms of the contract, KBR will supply the technology license, basic engineering…

Chemours invests $200 million to expand production capacity for ion-exhange materials

The Chemours Co. (Wilmington, Del.) announced a planned $200-million investment to increase capacity and advance technology for its industry-leading Nafion ion exchange materials to support the Hydrogen Economy. Accelerated climate ambitions and energy challenges have fast-tracked demand for hydrogen power…

Borealis and Verbund announce plans for industrial-scale green-hydrogen production in Austria

Borealis Group (Vienna, Austria) and VERBUND have initiated a decarbonization project that will use green hydrogen to produce fertilizers, melamine, and technical nitrogen on an industrial scale in a more sustainable way. The joint project taking place within the framework…

BASF and Hannong Chemicals announce JV for non-ionic surfactants

Subject to the approval of all relevant authorities, BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) and Hannong Chemicals are planning to establish a production joint venture “BASF Hannong Chemicals Solutions Ltd.”.  BASF will hold 51% and Hannong Chemicals 49% shareholding, in the proposed…

Lhyfe to develop 200-MW green-hydrogen plant in Delfzijl, Netherlands

Renewable hydrogen producer Lhyfe (Paris) has unveilked plans to develop a 200-MW hydrogen plant in Delfzijl, the Netherlands. “Delfzijl is an ideal location for renewable green hydrogen production as it has direct access to renewable energies from its offshore wind power…