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Afyren and Suez to develop a new organic waste-recovery process

AFYREN and SUEZ are working together on a new way of creating value from organic waste. At a time when nearly 20% of global food production is wasted, the importance of limiting these losses throughout the value chain and better…

3M and Hyundai KSOE collaborating on development of liquid-hydrogen storage tanks

3M Corp. (St. Paul, Minn.) and HD Hyundai Korea Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (KSOE) have signed a joint research project agreement to develop large liquid hydrogen storage tanks using Glass Bubbles from 3M – a high-strength, low-density hollow glass microsphere.…

Air Liquide and Vopak to collaborate on infrastructure for ammonia-cracking and hydrogen-distribution infrastructure in Singapore

Air Liquide S.A. (Paris) and Royal Vopak N.V. (Rotterdam, the Netherlands) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to collaborate on the development and operation of infrastructure for ammonia import, cracking and hydrogen distribution in Singapore. Ammonia is considered as…

Worley awarded contract for Shell’s renewable-hydrogen project at the Port of Rotterdam

Worley (North Sydney, Australia) was awarded a renewable hydrogen project services contract by Shell supporting the delivery of Europe’s largest renewable hydrogen project located in the Port of Rotterdam in the Netherlands. The contracts continue the close collaboration between Shell…

SK bioscience breaks ground for expanded vaccine production plant

SK bioscience announced that the company broke ground on a major expansion of its vaccine manufacturing plant, L HOUSE, located in Andong, Gyeongsangbuk-do, South Korea. The groundbreaking ceremony was attended by Cheol-woo Lee, Governor Gyeongsangbuk-do, GiChang Kwon, Mayor Andong City,…

Solvay and Carester enter MOU related to rare-earth magnet recycling

Solvay S.A. (Brussels)  and Carester announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to form a strategic partnership, aimed at leveraging the expertise of both companies to pursue manufacturing opportunities within the rare earth industry for the permanent magnets…

DIC opens new coating resins plant in India

DIC Corp. (Tokyo) announced that subsidiary IDEAL CHEMI PLAST PRIVATE LTD., based in the Indian state of Maharashtra, opened and commenced operations at a new production facility for coating resins for automotive and infrastructure applications in the state’s Supa Japanese…

Shin-Etsu Chemical to double production capacity for hypromellose acetate succinate

Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd. (Tokyo) plans to make investments to strengthen the pharmaceutical cellulose business. These investments will be implemented in the Naoetsu plant (Joetsu-city, Niigata Pref.). The plan is to double the manufacturing capacity of pharmaceutical excipient hypromellose acetate…

Zeon completes construction of new recycling plant for cyclo-olefin polymers

Zeon Corp. (Tokyo) has completed construction of a recycling plant for cyclo-olefin polymers (COP; product names: Zeonex and Zeonor) at its Takaoka Plant. Zeon is set to begin recycling its own products for the first time, and the new plant…

Yara invests in Danish solid-oxide electrolysis startup firm Dynelectro

Yara Growth Ventures has announced its investment in Dynelectro, a company based in Denmark that develops technologies to advance solid oxide electrolysis (SOE). While SOE yields the highest possible efficiencies to produce renewable hydrogen and e-fuels, it has been suffering…