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The Connected Plant Conference Announces Southern Company as Host Utility Partner

The 6th Annual Connected Plant Conference is proud to announce Southern Company as the Host Utility Partner. The 2022 event will convene in-person at the Renaissance Waverly Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia, from May 23 to 26. Hosted by POWER and…

Cummins starts up H2 fuel-cell manufacturing site in Germany

Cummins Inc. (Indianapolis, Ind.) announced that its new Hydrogen Fuel Cell Systems Production Center in Herten, Germany, is in operation, further driving its alternative power scale-up and enabling accelerated adoption of hydrogen technologies across Europe. The facility has an initial…

Técnicas Reunidas and Axens sign an agreement to develop CCS projects

Técnicas Reunidas S.A. (TR; Madrid, Spain) and Axens (Rueil-Malmaison, France)have signed a collaboration agreement to jointly promote carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects and provide integrated solutions from the concept to the handover of the project, based on Axens technologies.…

Johnson Matthey and 8 Rivers join forces to commercialize integrated clean-hydrogen technology

Johnson Matthey plc (London) and 8 Rivers Capital (Durham, N.C.) have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to collaborate towards the commercialization of 8 Rivers’ clean hydrogen process (8RH2). This collaboration will combine 8 Rivers’ carbon capture technology with…

Evonik expands supply of plant-derived cholesterol

Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany) has boosted its supply of plant-derived cholesterol, one of the most critical components for the manufacture of mRNA vaccines and gene therapies. The large-scale production of PhytoChol in Hanau, Germany, will meet an increased market…

Sulzer’s bioplastics technology selected for new PLA plant in China

Sulzer Chemtech Ltd. (Winterthur, Switzerland) has been awarded by Yangzhou Huitong Biological New Material to supply technology and key equipment for its polylactic acid (PLA) production facility in Jiangsu Province, China, which will have a capacity of 30’000 tons per…

BASF acquires site for battery materials and recycling expansion in Canada

BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) signed an agreement to secure land for its future cathode active materials and recycling site in Bécancour, Quebec, Canada, as part of its commitment to support North American producers in their transition to e-mobility. A regional…

Plastic Energy and Axens partner with Qenos to develop Australia’s largest circular-plastics project

Plastic Energy (London, U.K.) and Axens (Rueil-Malmaison, France) are partnering with Qenos Pty Ltd. (Victoria, Austrlia) in the planning of a major circular plastics manufacturing capability in Australia. Plastic Energy and Axens announced last year their intent to jointly license…

Adnoc and Proman to develop world-scale methanol production plant

Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) signed an agreement with Proman AG (Wollerau, Switzerland), one of the world’s leading producers of methanol, to develop the United Arab Emirates’ (UAE) first world-scale methanol production facility at the TA’ZIZ Industrial Chemicals Zone…

Veolia and DuPont complete emissions-reduction project in Virginia

Veolia North America announced it has completed its partnership with DuPont to convert the utility infrastructure at the DuPont Spruance manufacturing facility in Richmond, Virginia from coal to natural gas to produce steam and electricity more efficiently. The new cogeneration…