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Linde increases production capacity for industrial gases in Florida

Linde plc (Guildford, U.K.) announced that it has increased the capacity of its production facility in Mims, Florida, in response to growing demand for industrial gases in the region. Linde has expanded production capacity at Mims by 50%, following a…

SK Geo Centric announces development of new lactic-acid production technology

SK Geo Centric has secured a new technology for producing “lactic acid,” the raw material for bio-based plastic PLA (Polylactic Acid), using a sustainable method that minimizes costs and chemical byproducts. The research team from SK Innovation’s Institute of Environmental…

OMV Petrom to trial novel carbon-capture process at Petrobrazi refinery

OMV Petrom S.A. (Bucharest, Romania), the largest integrated energy producer in Southeastern Europe, will test a new carbon capture and utilization technology at the Petrobrazi refinery, starting June. The tests are part of a demonstration campaign carried out in three…

Sika opens synthetic fibers production facility in Peru

Sika AG (Baar, Switzerland) is opening a state-of-the-art facility in Lima, Peru, to produce synthetic macro fibers, and expanding the rollout of a product range with great growth potential in Latin America. With this innovative technology, Sika is further strengthening…

Mitsubishi and Denka to form JV for production of fullerenes

Mitsubishi Corp. (MC; Tokyo) and Denka Company Ltd. (Denka) have signed joint-venture (JV) agreement in the business of fullerenes, carbon molecules that form the base of cutting-edge materials in the field of nanotechnology. Under the terms of this agreement, Denka…

Asahi Kasei to construct a lithium-ion battery separator plant in Canada

Asahi Kasei Corp. (Tokyo) announced that it will construct an integrated plant in Ontario, Canada for the base film manufacturing and coating of Hipore wet-process lithium-ion battery (LIB) separator. In relation to this plant, Asahi Kasei has concluded a basic…

Hydrogen R&D facility opens at the University of Texas

Frontier Energy, GTI Energy  and the Center for Electromechanics at The University of Texas at Austin hosted the grand opening of a hydrogen research and demonstration facility. It was developed as part of the “Demonstration and Framework for H2@Scale in…

Linde to expand production of industrial gases for Guangdong Zhongnan Iron & Steel

Linde plc (Guildford, U.K.) has signed two agreements with Guangdong Zhongnan Iron & Steel, a member of the China Baowu Steel Group Corporation, one of the world's largest steel enterprises. Linde has signed an agreement to de-captivate an air separation…

Lubrizol invests $20 million in North Carolina acrylics plant

The Lubrizol Corp. (Cleveland, Ohio) announced a $20-million investment to its plant in Gastonia, North Carolina, to enhance production of innovative acrylic emulsions. Dating back to the 1950s, Lubrizol has a long history of innovating and manufacturing acrylic emulsion technologies…

Standard Lithium commissions lithium-extraction unit in Arkansas

Standard Lithium Ltd. (Vancouver, B.C., Canada)has successfully commissioned and validated the performance of the largest continuously-operating Direct Lithium Extraction (DLE) equipment in North America. The Company recently installed a commercial-scale DLE column at its Demonstration Plant near El Dorado, Arkansas.…