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Aternium selects Siemens Energy for FEED study of clean hydrogen production facility

Aternium, Inc. (Wilmington, Del.; www.aternium.com) is pleased to announce a critical partner for its Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) study for a clean hydrogen production facility. This milestone marks a significant step forward in Aternium’s mission to drive innovation and sustainability…

LanzaTech selects North Sea Port as site of commercial-scale SAF facility

North Sea Port (Ghent, Belgium; www.northseaport.com) announced that LanzaTech Global, Inc. (Skokie, Ill.; www.lanzatech.com), a member of the FLITE (Fuel via Low carbon Integrated Technology from Ethanol) consortium, has selected North Sea Port, Ghent, Belgium as the permanent site for…

Worley awarded contract for developing lithium hexafluorophosphate facility in Louisiana

Worley (Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; www.worley.com) has been awarded an engineering and design services contract by Orbia Fluor & Energy Materials (Waltham, Mass.; www.orbia-fem.com) to support the development of a lithium hexafluorophosphate (LiPF₆) production facility at Orbia’s site in…

Ketjen and Imubit partner to provide real-time catalyst intelligence in refinery operations

Ketjen (Houston, Tex.; www.ketjen.com), a provider of advanced catalyst solutions and technical expertise for the refining industry, announced a partnership with Imubit (Houston, Tex.; www.imubit.com), an industrial AI software company, to give refiners real-time, actionable catalyst intelligence for fluid catalytic…

UPM acquires intellectual property from Avatium for bio-based glycols

Materials company UPM (Helsinki, Finland; www.upm.com) today announced that it has reached an agreement with Avantium N.V. (Amsterdam, the Netherlands; www.avantium.com) to acquire the intellectual property related to Avantium's Ray Technology®, a process for the production of bio-based mono-ethylene glycol…

Technip Energies completes project to modernize ethane furnaces in steam cracker

Technip Energies (Nanterre, France; www.ten.com) successfully completed the Shell Skyline project at Shell Chemicals Park Moerdijk, Netherlands, modernizing the 16 oldest ethane furnaces of the steam cracker. The Engineering, Procurement and module Fabrication contract consisted in doubling the capacity of…

Topsoe and BioVeritas enter agreement for sustainable fuels and chemicals production

Topsoe (Lyngby, Denmark; www.topsoe.com), a leading global provider of advanced technology and solutions for the energy transition, has entered into an agreement with BioVeritas (Bryan, Tex.; www.bioveritas.com), a sustainable fuels and chemicals technology company commercializing a platform to unlock advantaged…

Proman and TA’ZIZ secure financing for world-scale methanol plant

The TA’ZIZ Methanol Co., a joint venture between Abu Dhabi Chemicals Derivatives Co. RSC Ltd. (TA’ZIZ) and Proman (Wollerau, Switzerland), announced that it has achieved financial close on $2 billion in financing for the UAE’s first world‑scale methanol plant in…

Covestro implements major energy-efficiency upgrades at Dormagen production site

With the investment in a new steam compressor at its Dormagen site, Covestro AG (Leverkusen, Germany) will reduce its energy consumption in Germany by two percent per year compared to 2025. The company's largest energy efficiency project to date will…

BASF commissions new fermentation plant in Ludwigshafen

BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) announced that its Agricultural Solutions business has commissioned its BioHub, a new fermentation plant for biological and biotechnology-based crop-protection products, at the Ludwigshafen site. With an investment in the high double-digit million-euro range, BASF is strengthening…