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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.…

Technip Energies and Anellotech to jointly develop advanced plastics-recycling technology

Technip Energies (Paris) and Anellotech, Inc. announced that they have signed a global joint-development agreement to work cooperatively to further develop and then license Anellotech’s Plas-TCat process, a one-step thermal-catalytic recycling technology that converts mixed plastic wastes back into its…

Innovafeed opens insect innovation center in Decatur, Ill.

Innovafeed (Paris, France), a global leader in the production of insect ingredients for high-quality animal feed, pet food and plant nutrition, inaugurated its North American Insect Innovation Center (NAIIC) in Decatur, Illinois on the 18th of April. This pilot plant…

IOCL selects Lummus’ cumene technology for new plant

Lummus Technology (Houston) announced Indian Oil Corporation Ltd. (IOCL)selected the Lummus/Versalis cumene technology for a 440,000-ton/yr unit in Paradip, India. The new cumene unit is part of a grassroots petrochemical and polymers expansion at IndianOil's complex in Paradip. "Our cumene…

Novoloop and Aether achieve continuous operations at first-of-its-kind recycling pilot plant

Novoloop (Menlo Park, Calif.; www.novoloop.com) announced the successful startup of its pilot plant in India. In collaboration with Aether Industries, a publicly-listed specialty chemicals manufacturer, the pilot plant’s groundbreaking in Surat was announced in January 2024. Construction was completed in…

Technip Energies awarded FEED contract for CCS project at major waste-to-energy plant in the U.K.

Technip Energies (Paris) has been awarded a Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) contract by Viridor for the Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) project at one of the United Kingdom’s largest Energy-from-Waste facilities in Runcorn, United Kingdom. The project aims to capture…

Fluor announces startup of renewable-fuels facility in Canada

Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.) announced that one of its projects reached a major milestone recently with the production startup of the Braya Renewable Fuels facility in Come by Chance, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Fluor provided engineering and procurement (EP) services…

Topsoe to build a new factory in Virginia for solid-oxide electrolyzer cells

Topsoe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark) announced plans to build a cutting-edge factory in Chesterfield, Virginia. The factory will manufacture advanced, energy efficient Solid Oxide Electrolyzer Cells (SOEC) that are essential to the efficient production of clean hydrogen and derivatives like eAmmonia…