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Plant Watch EuroChem launches phosphate-fertilizer manufacturing complex in Brazil March 14, 2024 — EuroChem Group (Zug, Switzerland; www.eurochemgroup.com) opened a new fertilizer-production facility in Serra do Salitre, Brazil. With a total project investment of nearly $1 billion, the new phosphate…
Focus on Valves
Ensure plant safety with this aseptic valve technology This company now equips the aseptic double-seat valves of the Aseptomag range with lockout-tagout (LoTo) devices. LoTo devices are mechanical locking systems that isolate machinery from potentially hazardous energy sources prior to…
Innovations in Seals and Gaskets Boost Reliability
New designs and materials overcome high temperatures, pressures and aggressive media In the chemical process industries (CPI), standard equipment is often capable of working universally across many applications. However, this same notion does not apply to the sealing elements used…
Technip Energies and LanzaTech selected by DOE for potential investment in decarbonized ethylene technology
Technip Energies (Paris) and LanzaTech Global, Inc. (Skokie, Ill.) were selected by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations to begin award negotiations for up to $200 million in Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and Inflation Reduction Act…
Ecolab opens wastewater-treatment plant at Shell Jurong Island in Singapore
Nalco Water, the Ecolab, Inc. (St. Paul, Minn.) water-management brand, announced the opening of a wastewater treatment plant in Shell Jurong Island, Singapore. Commencing operations earlier this year, this facility is designed to handle variable bio-treater wastewater. The plant utilizes…
Repsol acquires stake in three Bunge Iberica production facilities
Repsol S.A. (Madrid, Spain) and Bunge (St. Louis, Mo.) have agreed to partner in the development of new opportunities to help meet the growing demand for lower carbon intensity feedstocks for the production of renewable fuels. This alliance, the first…
3M invests in hydrogen electrolyzer manufacturer EVOLOH
3M (St. Paul, Minn.) has invested in EVOLOH, a cleantech company that is working to scale up manufacturing of its electrolyzers to make green hydrogen affordable and efficient. Electrolyzers work by using electricity to separate the atoms in water. The…
Henkel and Kraton enter supply agreement for lower-carbon adhesive formulations
Henkel AG (Düsseldorf, Germany) and Kraton Corp. (Houston) announced a multi-year supply partnership. In this agreement, Kraton will supply Henkel Adhesive Technologies with high-performance, biobased tackifiers and its patented REvolution rosin ester technology to enable carbon emission reductions in a…
ITM Power and Sumitomo complete installation of first-of-a-kind electrolyzer demonstration in Japan
ITM Power (Sheffield, U.K.) and Sumitomo Corp. (Tokyo) have announced the delivery and installation of a NEPTUNE electrolyzer at Tokyo Gas Co Ltd’s Yokohama Techno Station. This unit marks the first deployment of a megawatt-class PEM electrolyzer made overseas and…
TotalEnergies and Sinopec join forces to produce sustainable jet fuel at a Sinopec refinery
TotalEnergies SE (Paris) and China Petroleum and Chemical Corp. (Sinopec; Beijing, China) have signed a Heads of Agreement (HoA) to jointly develop a Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) production unit at a SINOPEC's refinery in China. The planned unit, jointly owned…