After the power-to-gas plant in Falkenhagen, Brandenburg, was expanded by a methanation stage in May 2018, synthetic natural gas (methane) has recently been fed into the natural gas grid. This allowed the partners of the international research project STORE&GO to…
Wood plc (Aberdeen, Scotland; www.woodplc.com) has been awarded a new contract by Sinochem Quanzhou Petrochemical for its 1MTA ethylene and refinery expansion project being built in Quanzhou, in the Fujian province of south east China. The contract grows Wood’s relationship…
Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com) is raising its European capacity of hydroquinone by 20%, enhancing the security of supply on three continents and to meet increasing demand for diphenol inhibitors used as additives by the monomer industry. This capacity expansion…
Engineering materials manufacturer II-VI Inc. (Saxonburg, Pa.; www.ii-vi.com) has selected clean energy company Bloom Energy (San Jose, Calif.; www.bloomenergy.com) to build a 2.5-megawatt microgrid power system to support its manufacturing facility in Warren, N.J. The Bloom Energy Server site was…
Saudi Aramco (www.saudiaramco.com) announced the signing of a share purchase agreement to acquire a 70% majority stake in The Saudi Basic Industries Corp. (SABIC; Riyadh; www.sabic.com) from the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia, in a private transaction for SAR…
U.S. Water Services, Inc. (St. Michael, Minn.; www.uswaterservices.com) today announced that is has joined the Kurita Water Industries Ltd. companies (www.kurita.co.jp) a leading international water management company headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. The acquisition was announced in early February 2019 and…
Covestro (Leverkusen, Germany; www.covestro.com ), one of the world’s largest polymer companies, and biotechnology company Genomatica have formed a partnership to research and develop high-performance materials based on renewable feedstocks. Both companies aim to reduce the use of fossil-based resources.…
United Chemical Company Shchekinoazot has selected Haldor Topsøe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark; www.topsoe.com) as licensor of ammonia technology for the construction of a new ammonia and urea plant. Located in the Tula region of Russia, the plant will have a capacity…
The Chemical Activity Barometer (CAB), a leading economic indicator created by the American Chemistry Council (ACC; Washington, D.C.; www.americanchemistry.com), rose 0.1 percent in March on a three-month moving average (3MMA) basis, the first gain in five months. On a year-over-year…
Wood plc (Aberdeen, Scotland; www.woodplc.com) has been awarded a prestigious multi-million-dollar contract by the Oil and Gas Climate Initiative Climate Investments (OGCI CI) to provide conceptual engineering for its gas power and industrial carbon capture conceptual design work. This project…