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Veolia to provide refining technologies for new lithium hydroxide plant in Japan

Veolia Water Technologies (www.veoliawatertech.com) will provide a chemical processing plant featuring HPD evaporation and crystallization technologies designed to convert lithium carbonate into lithium hydroxide employed in the manufacturing of batteries that power electric vehicles. Driven by their joint success in…

thyssenkrupp to build center of excellence for high-pressure processing of food in Quakenbrück

Thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions AG (Essen, Germany; www.thyssenkrupp-industrial-solutions.com) is investing in the safety of fresh food products by building Germany’s biggest center for high-pressure processing of food in the town of Quakenbrück, Lower Saxony. Dr. Bernd Althusmann, State Minister for Economic…

Tata Chemicals starts up lithium-ion-battery recycling facility near Mumbai

Tata Chemicals Ltd. (TCL; Mumbai, India; www.tatachemicals.com) announced that it has successfully commenced the commercial recovery of cathode active materials from spent lithium-ion cells/batteries. This further strengthens TCL’s commitment to longterm sustainable practices supporting a circular economy around the company’s…

Messer invests €34.6 million in America

Six months after expanding to America, the largest family-run industrial gases specialist worldwide, Messer Group GmbH (Bad Soden, Germany; www.messergroup.com), is investing €34.6 million ($38 million) in the construction of a new air separation plant in Indianapolis, Indiana, America. The…

Praj Industries’ technology selected for the first bagasse-based biorefinery in the U.S.

Praj Industries Ltd. (Pune, India; www.praj.net) has announced a milestone in the commercialization of its ‘enfinity’ technology. ‘Enfinity’, Praj’s proprietary technology, will be deployed to produce ethanol and other c0-products using sugarcane bagasse in what will be the  first bagasse-based…

DuPont Sustainable Solutions separates from DuPont to become an independent consulting firm

DuPont Sustainable Solutions (DSS; www.consultdss.com) announced its debut as an independent global operations management consulting firm following its separation from DuPont. The new company will provide enhanced solutions that enable clients to protect their employees and assets, improve the effectiveness of…

Ube Industries and Kyocera form JV for manufacture of ceramic filters

Kyocera Corp. (Tokyo, Japan; global.kyocera.com) and Ube Industries, Ltd. (Ube City, Japan; www.ube-ind.co.jp) announced t that the two companies have signed a joint venture (JV) agreement to manufacture ceramic filters for 5G base stations. Under the agreement, Kyocera will acquire…

Clariant confirms conversion of miscanthus biomass into lignocellulosic sugars and ethanol

Clariant (Muttenz, Switzerland; www.clariant.com) announced that it has conducted tests on approximately 30 tons of miscanthus provided by INA, Croatia’s leading oil and gas company. The miscanthus biomass was harvested and baled at the INA demonstration site in Croatia in…

Evonik purchases surface-modification business unit from Interface Biologics

Interface Biologics Inc. (IBI; Toronto, Canada; www.interfacebiologics.com), a privately held, commercial-stage developer of innovative material science technologies for Medtech and Pharmaceutical applications, is pleased to announce the sale of its surface modification business to Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com).…

BASF begins construction on new Chemetall surface-treatment site in China

The Surface Treatment global business unit of the Coatings division of BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com), operating under the Chemetall brand (www.chemetall.com), has started construction of its surface treatment site in the Dushan Port Economic Development Zone of Pinghu, Zhejiang…