BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) will invest in a new world-scale Neopentyl Glycol (NPG) plant with an annual production capacity of 80,000 metric tons at its new Zhanjiang Verbund site, China. With the new NPG plant expected to come on stream…
Atura Power has selected Cummins Inc. (Columbus, Ind.) to design and manufacture the electrolyzer system for its Niagara Hydrogen Centre in Niagara Falls, Ont. This will be Ontario’s first 20-megawatt (MW) green hydrogen facility. Cummins’ proton exchange membrane (PEM) electrolysis…
LyondellBasell Industries N.V. (Rotterdam, the Netherlands) and Genox Recycling jointly announce they have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to establish a joint venture (JV) to build a plastics recycling plant in Zhaoqing, Guangdong Province with a planned start up…
Shell has qualified Johnson Matthey’s (JM) Puravoc Green purification catalysts for use in its global hydrogen production projects. JM’s catalysts will be used to remove trace oxygen to meet oxygen specifications in the production of high purity, zero carbon…
Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium) announced it has taken full ownership of its joint venture stake Solvay Special Chem Japan (SSCJ) by acquiring 33% of the minority shares from Santoku Corporation. As the sole owner of this operation located in Anan,…
Toray Industries, Inc. (Tokyo) announced that it has decided to boost production capacity by 60% for Lumirror biaxially oriented polyester release films for manufacturing multilayer ceramic capacitors (MLCCs). The company will invest ¥8 billion in this upgrade at the Gifu…
In line with its previously announced plans to develop the supply of fluorinated specialty solution 1233zd, Arkema SA (Colombes, France) announced the successful start-up of the production facility of its partner Aofan in China. Additionally, Arkema has launched the construction…
Cepsa Quimica (Madrid, Spain) has started to produce advanced biofuels (2G) with used cooking oils at its La Rábida Energy Park, located in Palos de la Frontera (Huelva), an important milestone in the company’s transformation towards a more sustainable energy model…
Elkem Silicones (Oslo, Norway) celebrated the grand opening of its new specialized facility for producing high purity medical silicones on Wednesday, September 28, in York, S.C. Customers and local, state, and federal officials, attended the event which included a ribbon-cutting…
TotalEnergies (Paris) and Holcim Ltd. (Zug, Switzerland) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in Belgium to work together on the full decarbonization of a cement production facility being upgraded by Holcim in Obourg, Belgium. Various energies and technologies will…