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 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 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 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 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 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 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…
MAIRE S.p.A. (Milan) announced that its subsidiary Tecnimont (Integrated E&C Solutions) has been awarded by Sonatach (Algiers, Algeria) through a tendering process an EPCC (Engineering, Procurement, Construction and Commissioning) contract for a new linear alkyl benzene (LAB) plant in the…
Arkema S.A. (Colombes, France) and Hexcel Corp. (Stamford, Conn.) have jointly completes the first-ever aeronautical structure composed of thermoplastic composites. This achievement stems from the strategic partnership between Hexcel and Arkema. The high-performance thermoplastic composite structure was designed and manufactured…
Mitra Future Technologies, Inc. (Mitra Chem), a leading innovator of North American lithium-ion battery materials and Saint-Gobain Ceramics, a global leader in specialty ceramic materials, announced a groundbreaking partnership to accelerate the production of lithium iron manganese phosphate (LMFP) cathode…