Teijin Ltd. (Toyko) announced that its carbon fiber subsidiary Renegade Materials Corp., a leading U.S.-based supplier of highly heat-resistant thermoset prepregs, resins and adhesives for the aerospace industry, will expand its prepreg production approximately 2.5-fold. The increased capacity, which aligns…
McDermott International Inc. (Houston) has signed a Letter of Guarantee to deliver engineering and procurement for the ethylene cracker of the Gas Chemical Complex (GCC) project—the largest polyethylene integration project in the world—with China National Chemical Engineering and Construction Corp.…
Ineos Enterprises (London, U.K.), through its subsidiary Inovyn (London, U.K.), announced plans to build a large-scale, 100MW electrolyzer to produce green hydrogen at the Koln site in Germany. As a first step of the project, INEOS will produce green hydrogen…
A new collaboration between scientists, engineers, industry and farming experts hopes to demonstrate how clever technology can reduce the powerful greenhouse gases released by livestock to help agriculture reach carbon emissions targets. Methane, released when livestock belch and pass wind,…
Maire Tecnimont S.p.A. (Milan, Italy) announced that its subsidiary NextChem and Acciaierie d'Italia, Italy’s largest steel company, jointly owned by Arcelor Mittal and Invitalia, have reached an agreement for a feasibility study to use circular gas (syngas) in the Taranto steel mill. This circular gas…
Haldor Topsoe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark) will deliver Blue Ammonia technology for Air Products’ landmark $4.5 billion clean energy complex in Louisiana. Air Products’ megaproject, which will produce over 750 million standard cubic feet per day of blue hydrogen. A portion…
Technip Energies (Paris) and Shell Catalysts & Technologies announced that their jointly developed improvements on the Cansolv CO2 Capture technology are being tested in a pilot plant campaign at Fortum Oslo Varme’s Waste to Energy plant. In response to the…
Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany) has expanded its production capacity for organic dispersions used for heat sealing applications. Since the beginning of August, a significantly expanded plant at the Darmstadt site has been supplying additional material. The specialty chemicals company…
The preliminary value for the CE Plant Cost Index (CEPCI) for August 2021 (most recent available) is once again higher than the previous month, continuing a string of substantial monthly increases since the beginning of the year. In August, the…
Lanxess AG (Cologne, Germany) is expanding its production capacity for light-color aminic antioxidants at its Taiwan site by several kilo tons. The specialty chemicals company is investing an upper single-digit million Euro amount to expand its facility in response to…