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BASF inaugurates first plant of new Zhanjiang Verbund site

BASF SE (Ludwifgshafen, Germany) is inaugurating the first plant of its new Zhanjiang Verbund site in the province Guangdong in South China today. The plant will provide a capacity of 60,000 metric tons of engineering plastics compounds per year in…

HeidelbergCement announces major carbon capture project in Indiana

HeidelbergCement AG is further expanding its portfolio of large-scale CCUS projects with a new initiative in the United States. The project at the Mitchell, Indiana, cement plant of HeidelbergCement’s US subsidiary Lehigh Hanson, Inc. aims to capture 95% of the…

ADNOC sends first low-carbon ammonia shipment from the U.A.E. to Germany

Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. (ADNOC) announced that its first shipment of low-carbon ammonia has left the United Arab Emirates (UAE) bound for Hamburg, Germany. This is the first ever cargo of low-carbon ammonia to be shipped to Germany. The…

Thyssenkrupp completes sale of mining business to FLSmidth

thyssenkrupp AG (Essen, Germany) has completed the sale of its Mining Technologies business unit to FLSmidth (Copenhagen, Denmark). In doing so, thyssenkrupp has once again renewed the focus of its portfolio and taken a further step toward becoming a high-performance…

Avient completes acquisition of DSM protective materials

Avient Corp. (Cleveland, Ohio) has completed its purchase of the protective materials business of Royal DSM N.V. (Herleen, the Netherlands) — including the Dyneema brand — which will now be called Avient Protective Materials and reported within the company's Specialty…

Technip Energies to license blue hydrogen technology to LG Chem

Technip Energies (Paris) announced that LG Chem (Seoul, South Korea) selected the company's proprietary blue hydrogen technology to supply its Daesan complex in South Korea. The Blue H2 by T.EN hydrogen plant will capture a significant amount of carbon dioxide,…

Eurotecnica wins two melamine plant contracts

Eurotecnica (Milan, Italy), the technology arm of the Proman family of companies, announced the award of two other large contracts for the implementation of high-pressure melamine plants with 60,000 tons per year and 80,000 tons per year capacity, respectively. Both…

Topsoe confirms final investment decision for construction of world’s largest electrolyzer plant

Topsoe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark) has confirmed final investment decision for construction of world’s largest electrolyzer plant. The Board of Topsoe has now taken final investment decision (FID) to begin construction of the world’s largest solid-oxide electrolyzer cell (SOEC) electrolyzer manufacturing…

Sulzer makes investment in scaleup of new renewable biopolymer

Sulzer Ltd (Wintherthur, Switzerland) has partnered with CELLiCON to scale up its groundbreaking manufacturing technology for nano structured cellulose – a highly sustainable, plant-based alternative to conventional polymers. The technology slashes the traditionally high costs and footprint associated with nanocellulose,…

BASF, SABIC and Linde start construction of the world’s first demonstration plant for large-scale electric steam-cracker furnaces

BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany), SABIC (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) and Linde plc (Guildford, U.K.) have started construction of the world’s first demonstration plant for large-scale electrically heated steam cracker furnaces. By using electricity from renewable sources instead of natural gas, the…