Ørsted (Chicago, Ill.), a leading U.S. clean energy developer, announced it has been selected by the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations to begin award negotiations for up to $100 million in federal funding to construct a…
Lummus Technology (Houston) announced that SABIC Fujian Petrochemical Co., Ltd.’s grassroots complex in Fujian Province, China, will leverage Lummus’ ethylene and co-monomer technologies. SABIC Fujian Petrochemicals Co., Ltd. is a joint venture between SABIC Industrial Investment Company (wholly owned by…
Resonac Corp. (Tokyo) has decided to increase its capacity to produce materials for high-performance semiconductor chips, which are to be used mainly as CPUs for artificial intelligence (AI), to 3.5 to 5 times of the current level. Resonac will increase…
McDermott International Inc. (Houston) announced mechanical completion of a pioneering industrial-scale biosurfactant plant for Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany). Less than two years from contract award, Evonik has achieved initial production of Rhamnolipids, a bacterial surfactant with the potential to…
LG Water Solutions, LG Chem’s business unit specializing in water treatment and the manufacturer of NanoH2O reverse osmosis (RO) membranes, has secured a supply order of seawater RO (SWRO) membrane elements through a local EPC for an expansion of a…
Enapter AG (Berlin, Germany) has received further orders for its megawatt-class electrolyzer, the AEM Nexus 1000. Thanks to their multicore technology, these AEM electrolysers are particularly suitable for the highly efficient production of green hydrogen from renewable energy sources on…
Aker Carbon Capture ASA () today announced an agreement with SLB to combine their respective carbon capture businesses to support accelerated industrial decarbonization at scale. Bringing together complementary technology portfolios, leading process design expertise and an established project delivery platform,…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) has broken ground on a methyl glycols (MG) plant at its Verbund site in Zhanjiang, China. The new facility is designed with an annual capacity of 46,000 metric tons and aims to meet the rapidly growing…
Dow (Midland, Mich.) and the Procter & Gamble Co. (Cincinnati, Ohio) announced a joint development agreement (JDA) to create a new recycling technology. The vision is to enable efficient conversion of hard-to-recycle plastic packaging into recycled polyethylene with near-virgin quality…
Model VB-60-SSIS (photo) is a new sanitary V-cone blender with an internal spray line that blends dry and granular bulk materials uniformly, with or without liquid additions, in 15 to 30 min. Constructed of 304 stainless steel that is finished…