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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…

Orlen Unipetrol commissions dicyclopentadiene production unit

The ORLEN Unipetrol Group (Prague, Czech Republic) has commissioned a new production unit for dicyclopentadiene (DCPD), which will expand its product portfolio. DCPD, a liquid hydrocarbon, has a broad range of applications in the automotive industry, construction, electrical engineering, medicine,…

Fluor awarded two contracts for BASF’s Zhanjiang Verbund site project in China

Fluor Corporation (Irving, Tex.) announced today that the company was awarded two reimbursable engineering, procurement and construction management contracts by BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) for the ethylene oxide/ethylene glycol and infrastructure, offsites and utilities packages as part of the company’s…

Neste, Idemitsu Kosan, Chimei and Mitsubishi join forces to establish renewable plastics supply chain

Neste Corp. (Espoo, Finland), Idemitsu Kosan, CHIMEI and Mitsubishi Corp. have agreed to build a renewable plastics supply chain utilizing bio-based hydrocarbons (Neste) for the production of styrene monomer (i.e. bio-SM), and its mass balanced renewable plastics derivatives including acrylonitrile…