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Milliken & Co. acquires microencapsulation specialist Encapsys

Milliken & Co. (Spartanburg, S.C.) has formally acquired Encapsys, LLC, a world leader in microencapsulation, from the Cypress Performance Group LLC (“Cypress”). The transaction officially closed October 18, 2021. “Moving the needle on sustainability requires big thinking and powerful collaborations.…

Solvay accelerates development in solid-state battery materials

Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium) announced several investment efforts to advance its work to develop the next-generation of solid-state electrolytes for batteries. On the ground, investments started with the opening earlier this year of a dry room laboratory in Solvay’s research center near…

Clariant completes construction of first commercial sunliquid cellulosic ethanol plant in Romania

Clariant (Muttenz, Switzerland) announced the official completion of its sunliquid cellulosic ethanol plant in Podari, Romania. The completed construction is an important next step for the commercial deployment of sunliquid technology and thus supports Clariant’s sunliquid licensing business strategy. The…

Metso Outotec to provide solvent-extraction technology for cobalt refinery expansion in Canada

Metso Outotec Corp. (Helsinki, Finland) has signed an agreement with the Canadian battery materials company First Cobalt Corporation to deliver Planet Positive solvent extraction technology to their cobalt refinery expansion in Ontario. The value of the order is approximately EUR 10 million,…

Air Products announces plans to build $4.5-billion blue-hydrogen plant in Louisiana

Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.) will build, own and operate a $4.5-billion clean-energy megaproject, which will produce over 750 million standard cubic feet per day (MMSCFD) of blue hydrogen in Ascension Parish, Louisiana. “Blue” products are produced utilizing hydrocarbons as…

CE Podcast: Future of the Olefins business

On this episode of the Chemical Engineering Podcast, we hear from Patrick Kirby, a principal analyst at Wood MacKenzie. Patrick talks about an analysis undertaken early this year by WoodMac on the global olefins business. Listen to the conversation here:…

Plug Power and Fortescue to build 2-GW electrolyzer factory in Australia

Plug Power (Latham, N.Y.) and Fortescue Future Industries Pty Ltd (FFI) signed a letter of intent for a 50-50 joint venture to build a Gigafactory in Queensland, Australia. As part of the agreement, the two organizations intend to build a…

Consortium exploring green-hydrogen production hub in Orkney, Scotland

Offshore Wind Power Limited (OWPL), the consortium formed by Macquarie’s Green Investment Group, TotalEnergies and Scottish developer Renewable Infrastructure Development Group (RIDG) has announced it is studying the use of offshore wind to power the production of green hydrogen on…

KBR awarded nitric acid technology contract by Hanwha

KBR, Inc. (Houston) announced today it has been awarded a dual-pressure nitric acid technology contract by Hanwha Corp. for its new plant at Yeosu, South Korea. Under the terms of the contract, KBR will provide license, basic engineering design, and…

MilliporeSigma opens second manufacturing facility in Carlsbad, Calif.

 MilliporeSigma, the U.S. and Canada Life Science business of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, announced the opening of its second Carlsbad, California-based facility, significantly expanding its global CDMO footprint. This new $110 million, 140,000-square foot facility will more than double the company’s existing…