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Perstorp commissions new plant in India for Penta chemicals

Perstorp AB (Malmö, Sweden) has built and commissioned a state-of-the-art, ISCC Plus certified, plant in western India to meet growing market demand for Penta chemicals. Located in Sayakha, Bharuch, in the state of Gujarat, the facility was officially inaugurated on…

Evonik partners with the University of Mainz to commercialize a new class of PEG lipids

Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany) and the University Mainz have signed a license agreement to commercialize randomized polyethylene glycols (rPEGs), a new class of PEGs. Evonik intends to use rPEGs for its platform of specialized lipids and commercialize the excipients…

Plug Power to supply hydrogen fuel-cell technologies for automobile manufacturing

Plug Power Inc. (Latham, N.Y.) has finalized a contract to supply a major U.S. automobile manufacturer with hydrogen infrastructure and fuel cell solutions that will support material handling operations. The manufacturing campus of over 6 square miles is dedicated to…

Honeywell to supply technologies for Vietnam’s first green-hydrogen project

Honeywell International, Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.) announced that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with The Green Solutions Group Corporation (TGS) on the Tra Vinh Green Hydrogen project, Vietnam's first green hydrogen plant in the Mekong Delta. Honeywell will…

LyondellBasell acquires plastics-recycling assets in California

LyondellBasell Industries N.V. (Rotterdam, the Netherlands) announced it has acquired mechanical recycling assets and properties containing rigid plastics recycling processing lines from PreZero, a global recycling leader and waste management service provider. The transaction includes leasing the processing facility in…

Usalco completes significant expansion of polyaluminum chloride capacity in Tennessee

Usalco, LLC (Baltimore, Md.) has completed an expansion to increase polyaluminum chloride capacity in Chattanooga, Tennessee. With this upgrade, the company will be able to increase the availability of its specialty water treatment products for customers throughout the Southeastern United…

Topsoe technology selected for ammonia-to-hydrogen conversion project in South Korea

Topsoe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark) has signed an engineering agreement with Approtium to convert low-carbon ammonia into hydrogen using its H2RETAKE technology. Approtium plans to build an ammonia cracking plant to produce 75,000 metric tons of low-carbon hydrogen annually. The plant…

SABIC and Fujian Energy and Petrochemical Group announce groundbreaking for joint petrochemicals project

SABIC (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) and Fujian Energy and Petrochemical Group Co. Ltd. (Fujian Energy Petrochemical) held a groundbreaking ceremony to mark the start of full execution and construction phase of SABIC Fujian Petrochemical Complex (Sino-Saudi Gulei Ethylene Complex Project) in…

ABB to acquire asset-management firm SEAM Group

ABB, Inc. (Zurich, Switzerland) announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire SEAM Group, a major provider of energized asset management and advisory services to clients across industrial and commercial building markets. The acquisition will complement ABB’s Electrification…

QatarEnergy announces groundbreaking of Ras Laffan Petrochemical Complex

QatarEnergy announced that an official groundbreaking ceremony kicked off construction of the Ras Laffan Petrochemical Complex, one of the largest manufacturing complexes in the world. The complex will house an ethane cracker with a capacity of 2.1 million tons per…