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U.S. specialty chemicals markets rebounded in August, ACC says

Reflecting a rebound of manufacturing production, U.S. specialty chemicals market volumes rose 0.2 percent in August after falling 0.1 percent in July, rising 0.2 percent in June and a generally weak early 2019, according to the American Chemistry Council (ACC;…

Air Liquide to supply industrial gases for methanol plant expansion in Louisiana

Air Liquide (Paris, France; www.airliquide.com) announces an agreement with Methanex Corp. (Vancouver, B.C.; www.methanex.com) to supply oxygen, nitrogen and utilities to its upcoming methanol plant expansion project in Geismar, La. To serve Methanex and its other customers in the industrial…

Desalination and industrial wastewater treatment among the focuses for partnership

The National Alliance for Water Innovation (www.nawihub.org), a partnership of the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL; Oak Ridge, Tenn.; www.ornl.gov), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab; Berkeley, Calif.; www.lbl.gov), the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL; Golden, Colo.;…

BASF to sell its ultrafiltration-membrane business to DuPont

BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) and DuPont Safety & Construction (DuPont; Wilmington, Del.; www.dupont.com) today announced that the companies have signed an agreement where BASF will sell its ultrafiltration-membrane business to DuPont. The divesture includes the shares of inge GmbH,…

Clariant and Orlen Południe announce license agreement on sunliquid cellulosic ethanol technology

Clariant (Muttenz, Switzerland; www.clariant.com) and ORLEN Południe, a member of Orlen Group (Płock, Poland; www.orlen.pl), which is a leader in the fuels and energy markets and the largest player in Central and Eastern Europe, today signed a license agreement on…

Krohne and Samson introduce Joint Venture and product innovation

Krohne GmbH & Co. KG (Duisburg, Germany; www.krohne.com) and Samson AG (Frankfurt am Main, Germany; www.samson.de) introduced the joint venture (JV) Focus-On (Dordrecht, the Netherlands; www.focus-on-process.com) at a press conference on September 19 in Frankfurt. Focus-On is a newly founded…

Valmet invests in new bioenergy-focused pilot facility

Valmet Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.valmet.com) has invested in a new pilot facility at its Fiber Technology Center in Sundsvall, Sweden to strengthen the company’s research and development capabilities related to bioenergy, biofuels and biochemicals. The new pilot facility will start…

Atonix Digital introduces the first purpose-built Asset Performance Management solution for wastewater-treatment facilities

Today, Atonix Digital — a subsidiary of Black & Veatch Overland Park, Kansas; www.bv.com) focused on data-driven software applications — announces its new Wastewater Treatment Solution. The solution is geared to help facility operators identify previously undetectable changes in systems…

Air Liquide invests in the U.S. Gulf Coast to support new long-term agreement with Methanex

Air Liquide (Paris, France; www.airliquide.com) announces an agreement with Methanex Corp. to supply oxygen, nitrogen and utilities to its upcoming methanol plant expansion project in Geismar, Louisiana. To serve Methanex and its other customers in the industrial basin that encompasses…

St1 Nordic licenses Honeywell Ecofining technology in Sweden

Honeywell today announced that St1 Nordic Oy (Helsinki, Finland) has licensed the UOP’s Ecofining renewable fuels technology to produce 4,000 barrels per day of diesel and jet fuel integrated with its refinery complex in Gothenburg, Sweden. Basic engineering design for…