Latest News
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…
Kinder Morgan and Neste begin operation of renewable-feedstock logistics hub in Louisiana
Kinder Morgan, Inc. (KMI; Houston) announced the commercial in-service of its renewable feedstock storage and logistics hub project with Neste Corp. (Espoo, Finland). Neste will store a variety of raw materials like used cooking oil, which it collects from more…
McPhy Energy awarded an electrolyzer contract for “green metal” project in Austria
McPhy Energy S.A. (La Motte Fanjas, France) announced the signing of a contract for the supply, assembly and commissioning of one McLyzer 800-30 with a capacity of 4 MW with Plansee Group in Austria. The electrolyzer will operate on the…
Lummus and SCG Chemicals enter commercial cooperation for Texplore HDPE technology
Lummus Technology (Houston) and Texplore Co., Ltd. (Texplore), a wholly owned subsidiary of SCG Chemicals plc (SCGC; Bangkok, Thailand), announced a commercial cooperation agreement to license and market EXCENE, Texplore's high-density polyethylene (HDPE) technology. Leadership from both companies recently participated…
Honeywell technology selected for SAF production in China
Honeywell International, Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.) announced that Sichuan Jinshang Environmental Protection Technology Co. (JSRE) will use Honeywell Ecofining technology to produce nearly 300,000 metric tons per year (approximately 6,000 barrels per day) of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) at its newly…
Wacker acquires Spanish biotech firm ADL BioPharma
Wacker Chemie AG (Munich, Germany) has acquired 100% of the shares of contract manufacturing company (CMO) ADL BioPharma. The shares were purchased from Kartesia, a financial investor with whom WACKER signed a corresponding agreement finalizing the transaction last week. Following…
Ineos Inovyn invests in solar farm to significantly cut CO2 emissions in Belgium
Ineos Inovyn (London, U.K.) has announced investment in HELIOS, a 90,000 panel solar farm spanning 30 hectares, to provide renewable electricity exclusively to its site at Jemeppe-sur-Sambre, Belgium. Through an exclusive power purchase agreement, the solar farm will provide over…
Kemira completes sale of colorants business
Kemira Oyj (Helsinki, Finland) announced the closing of the divestment of most of its colorants business to ChromaScape. Kemira signed a definitive agreement to sell its colorants dye business to US-based ChromaScape, LLC in September 2022. The revenue of the…
OQ Chemicals launches new pilot plant for customized esters in Germany
OQ Chemicals GmbH (Monheim am Rhein, Germany) has successfully started up its new pilot plant for esters in Oberhausen, Germany. This state-of-the-art test facility enables the company to manufacture small quantities of esters that are tailored to customer needs for…
Technip Energies and John Cockerill to create JV for integrated green-hydrogen solutions
Technip Energies (Paris) and John Cockerill (Seraing, Belgium), two industrial leaders in the hydrogen market, announce the launch of Rely, a unique provider of integrated and competitive green hydrogen solutions. Energy and heavy industries are at a major turning point.…