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Evonik launches hydrogenation pilot plant in India

Last month, a pilot plant for optimizing the production processes of hydrogenation catalysts for oils and fats was inaugurated at Evonik's (Eseen Germany; www.evonik.com) site in Dombivli, India. With the newly opened pilot plant, the production of catalysts developed on…

Linde starts up air-separation plant serving space launch applications

Linde (Guildford, U.K.; www.linde.com) announced that it has started up a new Air-Separation Unit (ASU), effectively doubling the production capacity of its existing plant at Mims, Florida. The expansion is in response to rapidly growing contracted demand for space launch…

Henkel opens adhesives plant near Pune, India

Henkel AG & Co. KGaA (Dusseldorf, Germany; www.henkel.com) announced that Henkel Adhesives Technologies has officially inaugurated its new production facility in Kurkumbh, India, near Pune. With a total investment of about €50 million, the business unit aims to serve the…

PPG and Dow announce collaboration focused on emissions reduction

PPG Industries, Inc. (Pittsburgh, Pa.; www.ppg.com) announced a collaboration with Dow, Inc. (Mmidland, Mich.; www.dow.com) and its Sustainable Future Program, developed to accelerate adoption of low-carbon technologies. The partnership focuses on advances in anti-corrosion coating products for steel designed to…

Yokogawa opens process automation collaboration center in The Woodlands

Yokogawa Electric Corp. (Tokyo, Japan; www.yokogawa.com) announced the opening of the Open Process Automation (OPA) Test Bed Collaboration Center, located six miles north of ExxonMobil's Houston campus in The Woodlands, Texas. The opening of the center follows the announcement in…

Henkel invests in machine-learning software start-up Fero Labs

Henkel AG & Co. KGaA (Dusseldorf, Germany; www.henkel.com)  is participating in the latest funding round of Fero Labs (New York, N.Y.; www.ferolabs.com), a start-up aiming to optimize industrial processes by using explainable machine learning. The investment is led by the…

Honeywell introduces HIVE for IT infrastructure

Honeywell (Morris Plains, N.J.; www.honeywell.com) today announced the release of Experion PKS IT Highly Integrated Virtual Environment (HIVE), a transformative new technology that centralizes up to 80% of IT infrastructure used in project engineering. This allows industrial manufacturers to lower…

Indorama starts up ethylene cracker in Louisiana

Indorama Ventures Public Co. Ltd. (IVL; Bangkok, Thailand; www.indoramaventures.com) has announced the commercial startup of its olefins gas cracker plant at Indorama Ventures Olefins LLC(IVOL) in Westlake, Louisiana. The site has an ethylene production capacity of 440,000 metric tons per…

Velocys selects Worley as engineering partner

Sustainable fuels company Velocys plc (Oxford, U.K.; www.velocys.com) announced the appointment of Worley (North Sydney, Australis; www.worley.com) to manage the delivery of its fully integrated technology package. Worley is now the partner in the development of pre-feasibility, feasibility and FEED…

Lanxess working to increase disinfectant supply for coronavirus prevention

Lanxess AG (Cologne, Germany; www.lanxess.com) has announced that it is working to increase supply of its high-level disinfectant Rely+On Virkon, which is thought to be effective against the coronavirus. The product is used for hard surface and equipment disinfection. Anneliese…