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AGC to expand biopharmaceutical manufacturing capacities at Yokohama Technical Center
AGC, Inc. (Tokyo) has announced that it has decided to expand its biopharmaceutical CDMO capability at the AGC Yokohama Technical Center. The total investment for the expansion is expected to be approximately 50 billion Japanese yen. Development services for gene…
Kemira and IFF expand biotechnology partnership to focus on enzymatic polymerization
Kemira Oyj (Helsinki, Finland) and International Flavors & Fragrances (IFF) announced the next step towards the commercialization of the Designed Enzymatic Biomaterial (“DEB”) platform, a cutting-edge biotechnology process that enables production of new renewable polymers with enzymatic polymerization. These renewable…
LG Chem begins construction of major battery-materials plant in Tennessee
LG Chem Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea) has commenced the construction of a cathode plant in the U.S., intending to establish a production hub for the global battery material market. The facility, located in Montgomery County, Clarksville, Tennessee, will locally produce…
TechnipEnergies to provide technology, engineering and procurement for Dow’s new ethylene cracker in Canada
Technip Energies (Paris) has been selected to provide Proprietary Technology, Engineering, and Procurement services for Dow’s net-zero Scope 1 and 2 emissions integrated ethylene cracker in Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta, Canada. Technip Energies provided an Extended Basic Engineering Package for this…
Q&A with CISA Industrial Control Systems Cybersecurity Lead Matt Rogers
Editor's note: The following responses were provided by Matthew Rogers, the Industrial Control System Cybersecurity Lead at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA; www.cisa.gov), part of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (www.dhs.gov). The statements were provided in response…
Idemitsu Kosan starts up new production plant in Malaysia for syndiotactic polystyrene
Idemitsu Advanced Materials (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd., a subsidiary of Idemitsu Kosan Co.,Ltd. (Tokyo), has newly constructed a second SPS (syndiotactic polystyrene) production plant in Pasir Gudang, Johor, Malaysia, and launched commercial operation in November 2023. The production capacity of this…
ExxonMobil to build carbonate fuel-cell pilot plant in Rotterdam
Esso Nederland BV, an affiliate of Exxon Mobil Corp. (Houston) plans to build a pilot plant at its Rotterdam Manufacturing Complex to test a breakthrough technology that could significantly reduce CO2 emissions from key industries. The pilot plant aims to…
Air Liquide to build new carbon-capture plant in Rotterdam
Air Liquide S.A. (Paris, France) has announced that it will build, own and operate a world-scale carbon capture unit in the industrial basin of Rotterdam, the Netherlands, leveraging its proprietary Cryocap technology. The new unit will be installed at the…
TotalEnergies to supply green electricity for two LyondellBasell manufacturing plants in Texas
After a first renewable Corporate Power Purchase Agreement (CPPA) signed at the end of 2022, TotalEnergies (Paris, France) has signed a second contract with LyondellBasell N.V. (Rotterdam, the Netherlands) to supply a combined 275 MWac (358 MW) of green electricity…
The Definitive Guide to Generative AI for Industry
What data-driven operators need to know in order to trust and deploy Gen AI Generative AI is already fundamentally reshaping how industrial knowledge workers and subject matter experts interact with data and operational processes. In fact, Gartner estimates that “by…