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Show Preview: Interphex 2024
Interphex 2024 (www.interphex.com) — a global pharmaceutical and biotechnology event — will be held April 16–18 at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City. The event will feature more than 450 exhibitors, as well as a dual-track conference…
A control room with generative-AI capabilities
In January, specialty materials maker Celanese Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.celanese.com) beta-launched a remote-operations control room (ROCR) that allows hands-free queries of plant data for faster data gathering and decision-making. The ROCR leverages recent advances in generative-artificial intelligence (gen-AI)-powered natural language…
Facts At Your Fingertips: Continuous Tubular Reactors with Static Mixing Elements
Batch manufacturing methods are common throughout the chemical process industries (CPI) for specialized compounds and reactions. However, typical batch-wise manufacturing processes are often time-consuming due to large volumes and long loading and unloading times added to the batch processing time,…
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…