North American Helium Inc. (NAH; Calgary, Canada) announced it has successfully brought its third helium purification facility on production in May with zero operational issues. This facility is located near the Village of Mankota in southwest Saskatchewan. Commenting on this…
Valmet Oyj (Espoo, Finland) is further developing its press felt production facilities in Tampere, Finland by investing in new press felt machinery and equipment. The investment includes a new pre-needling line and a new needling line. The amount of the…
With demand for protein from the world’s rapidly growing population expected to rise, commissioning is now underway at the world’s first industrial-scale FeedKind facility in Chongqing, China. FeedKind is an alternative feed ingredient for the aquaculture and animal feed industry…
The preliminary value for the CE Plant Cost Index (CEPCI) for June 2022 (most recent available) edged higher than the previous month’s value, continuing the upward trend of the last 18 months, although at a slower pace. In June, small…
ScottishPower, with Hutchison Ports, is exploring the opportunity to develop, build and operate a multi-hundred MW green hydrogen production facility at the Port of Felixstowe – with the potential to decarbonize industry and transportation in the region. Both companies have…
The Chemours Co. (Wilmington, Del.) announced it has begun commissioning its newest mineral sand mine, Trail Ridge South in Clay County, Florida. The new mining operation represents a $93 million investment that will create approximately 50 new jobs in the…
Bilfinger SE (Mannheim, Germany) is supporting Gasunie (Groningen, the Netherlands), an energy infrastructure company in the Netherlands and northern Germany, with the engineering of the HyStock project, an underground hydrogen storage facility near Zuidwending in the Netherlands. This new green…
Koch Fertilizer (Wichita, Kan.) is planning a $30 million optimization project at its Dodge City, Kansas nitrogen plant to increase Urea Ammonium Nitrate (UAN) production by 35,000 tons per year. “We are dedicated to being our customer’s long-term supplier of…
Wood plc (Aberdeen, Scotland) has secured two new contracts from Enter Engineering with a combined value of over $200 million, to deliver major capital investment projects in Uzbekistan. The first will see Wood’s Projects business deliver the full engineering scope,…
Merck KGaA (Darmstadt, Germany) announced the signing of a definitive agreement to acquire the chemical business of Mecaro Co. Ltd. (Mecaro), a Korea-based and publicly listed manufacturer of heater blocks and chemical precursors for semiconductors. The acquisition is part of…