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Fujifilm to acquire semiconductor high-purity chemicals business from Entegris for $700 Million
Fujifilm Corp. (Tokyo) announced that the company has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the semiconductor high purity process chemicals (HPPC) business, CMC Materials KMG Corporation (KMG), from Entegris, Inc. (Billerica, Mass.) for $700 million. Through the acquisition of…
Hexcel opens new composites plant in Morocco
Hexcel Corp. (Stamford, Conn.) announced the grand opening of a completed expansion at its engineered core operations plant in Morocco to meet the growing demand for lightweight advanced composite materials for the aerospace industry. The 13,000-square-meter expansion in the Midparc…
Technip Energies selected for carbon-capture project at waste-to-energy plant in Denmark
Technip Energies (Paris) has been awarded a front-end engineering design (FEED) contract by VF Carbon Capture A/S for a CO2 capture plant to be connected to I/S Vestforbrænding’s existing waste-to-energy facility in Glostrup, Denmark. The agreement between the two companies…
KBR to provide solvent deasphalting technology for Hindustan Petroleum Corp.
KBR, Inc. (Houston) announced that it has been awarded a contract by Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL) to implement its market-leading supercritical solvent deasphalting (SDA) technology, ROSE, at HPCL's Mumbai Refinery. Under the terms of the contract, KBR will provide…
Metso awarded a concentrator plant equipment order for copper project in China
Metso Corp. (Helsinki, Finland) has been awarded an order for key concentrator plant equipment by Zijin Mining Group for their Julong copper project in the Tibetan Autonomous region. The value of the order is approximately EUR 85 million, of which…
Zero Petroleum to open world’s first fully synthetic fuel facility
Zero Petroleum Ltd. (London) announced that it is opening its first synthetic fuel facility (Plant Zero.1) in June. The facility will include the world’s first fully-featured synthetic fuel plant, leading the way to providing the technical and commercial blueprint for…
TotalEnergies acquires Spanish plastics recycler Iber Resinas
TotalEnergies SA (Paris, France) has acquired Spain-based Iber Resinas, an actor in the mechanical recycling of plastics for sustainable applications. With this transaction, TotalEnergies will increase its production of circular polymers in Europe, extend its range of recycled products, and…
ABB collaborates with Lhyfe and Skyborn on one of Europe’s largest renewable hydrogen projects
ABB, Inc. (Zug, Switzerland) is collaborating with Lhyfe (Paris), a world pioneer in the production of renewable hydrogen, and Skyborn, a global leader in renewable energy, to jointly realize and optimize one of Europe’s most ambitious renewable hydrogen projects ever,…
BASF and Advent Technologies sign agreement to establish supply chain for hydrogen fuel-cell systems in Europe
BASF Environmental Catalyst and Metal Solutions, a global leader in precious metals and catalysis, and Advent Technologies Holdings, Inc., an innovation-driven leader in the fuel cell and hydrogen technology sectors, have concluded the terms of a new agreement to join…
Ashland sells its carbonyl iron manufacturing business to Americal Carbonyl
American Carbonyl, LLC announced the acquisition of Ashland Global Holdings Inc.’s (Wilmington, Del.) Carbonyl Iron Manufacturing assets and business lines. With this acquisition, American Carbonyl continues a long history of manufacturing Carbonyl Iron Micropowders and Iron Pentacarbonyl at the historic…