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Clariant opens High-Throughput Experimentation lab in Houston

Clariant (Muttenz, Switzerland; www.clariant.com) has opened its next High Throughput Experimentation (HTE) laboratory in Houston, Tex.  The location is key as the new facility will be the first of its kind supporting the oil & gas industry, offering new and…

Nahodka Mineral Fertilizer Plant selects Topsoe as licensor for world-scale methanol plant

Nakhodka Mineral Fertilizer Plant has chosen Haldor Topsoe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark; www.topsoe.com) technology for a 5,400 tons-per-day methanol plant near Vladivostok in the Eastern part of Russia. China Chengda Engineering Co., LTD, has been chosen for engineering, procurement and construction…

Climeworks and Antecy are joining forces

Climeworks AG (Zürich, Switzerland; www.climeworks.com) and Antecy B.V. (Hoevelaken, the Netherlands; www.antecy.com) share the same goal of removing climate-relevant amounts of CO2 from the atmosphere and joining forces renders this goal more achievable. The combination of their technologies will result…

SCS Energy Breaks Ground on Indy Landfill Gas to RNG Plant

In August 2019, SCS Energy (Indianapolis, Ind.; www.scsengineers.com) broke ground on construction of a 4,000-scfm landfill gas to renewable natural gas (RNG) plant in Indianapolis. Indy High Btu, LLC engaged SCS Energy to build the RNG plant under an engineering,…

LyondellBasell expands in China with ethylene-cracker JV

LyondellBasell (Rotterdam, the Netherlands; www.lyondellbasell.com) announced it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to expand in China through a Joint Venture (JV) with the Liaoning Bora Enterprise Group (Bora). “China is the largest, fastest growing market in the world…

Eni to install an EnergyNest thermal battery for steam production at Gela manufacturing site

EnergyNest (Billingstad, Norway; www.energy-nest.com) is supplying a full Thermal Battery system for an industrial decarbonization project located at Eni S.p.A.’s (Rome, Italy; www.eni.com) production site located in Gela (Sicily), Italy. EnergyNest’s novel Thermal Battery solution can help cut CO2 and…

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…