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Stamicarbon secures contracts for two urea plants in Africa
Stamicarbon BV (Sittard, the Netherlands), nitrogen technology licensor of MAIRE Group, continues to consolidate its presence in Sub-Saharan Africa. Following last year's award of a license and process design package (PDP) contracts to design a 4000 MTPD melt and granulation…
Wood to design Europe’s largest high-purity manganese processing facility
Wood plc (Aberdeen, Scotland) has been awarded a major award by Euro Manganese to deliver a unique mineral project critical to the energy transition. This cost-reimbursable contract will be delivered by Wood’s Projects business unit and is in line with…
H.C. Starck to establish LIB recycling center in Germany
H.C. Starck Tungsten GmbH, a subsidiary of Masan High-Tech Materials Group, is planning to establish a recycling center for lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) in the Harz region together with partners. To this end, a Memorandum of Understanding was signed yesterday in…
Cepsa announces first production plant for renewable isopropanol
Cepsa (Madrid, Spain) strengthens its chemical business with the construction in Huelva of the first production plant of isopropyl alcohol, or isopropanol, from renewable or circular materials, which will make it the most competitive, innovative, and environmentally friendly facility of…
LyondellBasell polyethylene technology selected for PetroChina Guangxi complex
LyondellBasell Industries (Rotterdam, the Netherlands) announced that PetroChina Guangxi Petrochemical Company will license the LyondellBasell polyethylene technology at their facility located in Qinzhou City, Guangxi, P.R. of China. The newly licensed technology will comprise of the LyondellBasell leading high-pressure Lupotech…
Airgas strengthens argon supply chain in the U.S. with new facilities in Ohio and New York
Airgas, an Air Liquide company and a leading U.S. supplier of industrial, medical and specialty gases, safety and welding products, has installed two strategically located argon storage nodes to further strengthen the argon supply chain for its customers, who use…
Johnson Matthey to build a new production plant in China for catalyst-coated membranes
Johnson Matthey plc (JM; London), a global leader in sustainable technologies, has signed an investment agreement with the Jiading District in Shanghai to help accelerate the hydrogen economy in China. At a signing ceremony in Sonning, UK today, JM and…
Metso partners with Avalon Advanced Materials to develop lithium hydroxide plant in Canada
Metso Corp. (Helsinki, Finland) has entered into a strategic partnership with Canadian mineral development company Avalon Advanced Material, to establish terms to develop a lithium hydroxide production facility. The facility will process lithium mineral concentrates that are essential for the…
Uniper and Sasol ecoFT continue to develop first-of-its-kind SAF plant in Sweden
Uniper SE (Düsseldorf, Germany) and Sasol ecoFT have jointly applied for funding from the Swedish Energy Agency for the next phase of development and to the EU Innovation Fund for overall project funding. The final decision on the award is…
Honeywell to acquire network cybersecurity specialist SCADAfence
Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.) announced it has agreed to acquire SCADAfence, a leading provider of operational technology (OT) and Internet of Things (IoT) cybersecurity solutions for monitoring large-scale networks. SCADAfence brings proven capabilities in asset discovery, threat detection and…