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Topsoe to provide technology for commercial-scale SAF production plant in Brazil

Topsoe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark; www.topsoe.com), a global leader in carbon emission reduction technologies, has signed an agreement with Refinaria de Petróleo Riograndense SA (Riograndense), to provide its HydroFlex™ and H2bridge™ technologies for sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) and renewable diesel production…

Lubrizol and Polyhose to construct new manufacturing site in India

The Lubrizol Corp. (Cleveland, Ohio) and Polyhose, a global leader in fluid conveyance systems, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), As part of the collaboration, Lubrizol and Polyhose aim to create a medical manufacturing site in Tamil Nadu. The site…

Stamicarbon to design NOx abatement system for nitric acid plant in Mexico

Stamicarbon, the nitrogen technology licensor of NEXTCHEM (MAIRE Group), has signed a contract to provide a license and Process Design Package (PDP) for a tertiary abatement unit to be installed at Soluciones Químicas' nitric acid plant in Minatitlán, Veracruz, Mexico.…

Vulcan Energy opens downstream lithium hydroxide optimization plant near Frankfurt

Vulcan Energy has officially opened its downstream Central Lithium Electrolysis Optimization Plant (CLEOP) in a ceremony held on site at Industrial Park Höchst Frankfurt, Germany. The opening of the downstream plant follows announcement that the plant is now producing lithium…

Trinseo to sell polycarbonate technology license and German polycarbonate assets to Deepak Chem Tech

Trinseo (Berwyn, Pa.) announced it has entered into agreements to supply a polycarbonate technology license as well as all proprietary polycarbonate production equipment in Stade, Germany to a wholly owned subsidiary of Deepak Nitrite Limited (Deepak) for use in India.…

NEO Battery Materials and Linde Korea to collaborate on commercialization of silicon anode technology

NEO Battery Materials Ltd. signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Linde Korea Co., Ltd. (“Linde), an affiliate of leading industrial gases and engineering company Linde to collaborate on the scale-up of NEO’s silicon anode manufacturing for lithium-ion batteries. There…

Nippon Shokubai acquires emulsion technology assets from JSR Corp.

Nippon Shokubai Ltd. (Osaka, Japan) reached an agreement with JSR Corp. (Tokyo, Japan) to acquire the shares of Emulsion Technology Co. (E-TEC). E-TEC was founded as a subsidiary of JSR in 1963. Focused on emulsion processes and products, E-TEC manufactures…

Lonza to expand bioconjugation capacity in Visp with two additional manufacturing units

  Lonza AG (Basel, Switzerland) announced it will invest in additional bioconjugation capabilities in Visp, Switzerland. The expansion will add two multipurpose 1,200L manufacturing suites and manufacturing-related infrastructure to the existing bioconjugation facility in Visp for launch and commercial supply.…

BASF to expand production capacity for catalyst additive-manufacturing technology

BASF SE (Lugwigshafen, Germany) announced that it will invest in additional production capacity for its X3D technology, a new additive manufacturing technology for catalysts based on 3D printing. The plant will produce catalysts on an industrial scale and is expected…

Nouryon doubles production capacity for organic peroxides in Ningbo

Nouryon (Amsterdam, the Netherlands) announced that it has completed the capacity expansion for organic peroxides at its manufacturing facility in Ningbo, China. The expansion has doubled the annual production capacity to 6,000 tons each of Perkadox 14 and Trigonox 101…