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Shell to sell interest in Singapore Energy and Chemicals Park to CAPGC

Shell Singapore Pte Ltd, a subsidiary of Shell plc, has reached an agreement to sell its Energy and Chemicals Park in Singapore to CAPGC Pte. Ltd., a joint venture company between Chandra Asri Capital Pte. Ltd. and Glencore Asian Holdings…

BASF invests in capacity expansion for paraffin inhibitors at Tarragona plant

BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) plans to expand the global production capacity of its Basoflux range of paraffin inhibitors at its site in Tarragona, Spain. This investment will enable BASF’s Oilfield Chemicals business to meet the current and future demand of…

Sandbox project launched for promoting open-source AI innovation

Last month, the LF AI & Data Foundation (lfaidata.foundation) under the auspices of the Linux Foundation (San Fransciso, Calif.; linuxfoudation.org) launched the Open Platform for Enterprise Artificial Intelligence (OPEA; opea.dev) as its latest Sandbox Project. The initiative is aimed at…

Wacker expands production capacity for biopharmaceuticals in San Diego

Wacker Chemie AG (Munich, Germany) is increasing capacities in the field of biopharmaceuticals for advanced therapies. Wacker Biotech US, a subsidiary specializing in the fermentative production of plasmid DNA (pDNA), is expanding its mRNA and protein production. As a contract…

Carbon Clean achieves fabrication milestone with major eMethanol project’s first carbon-capture unit module

Carbon Clean (London) has achieved a fabrication milestone on Ørsted’s FlagshipONE project, Europe’s largest commercial-scale eMethanol facility under construction. The first equipment has been mounted on the structural steel of the first module, marking the start of the module assembly…

Aker Solutions to upgrade Equinor’s Mongstad refinery

Aker Solutions ASA (Lysaker, Norway) has been awarded a substantial EPCIC contract by Equinor to upgrade the wastewater treatment plant facilities and lower the environmental impact of the Mongstad refinery on the west coast of Norway. The Mongstad refinery, situated…

Carbios and Hündgen enter supply agreement for world’s first PET biorecycling plant

Carbios (St-Beauzire, France) and Hündgen Entsorgungs GmbH & Co. KG (Hündgen), a waste management expert in logistics, sorting services and the recycling of recyclable materials from waste mixtures, announce the signing of a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding relating to the…

Nano One and Worley announce alliance to jointly develop cathode plant projects

Nano One Materials Corp. (Vancouver, B.C., Canada) a clean technology company with patented processes for the sustainable production of lithium-ion battery cathode active materials (CAM), and Worley Chemetics, a wholly owned Canadian subsidiary of Worley Limited  have entered into a…

Fortescue launches work on its first U.S. green-hydrogen plant

Fortescue (East Perth, Australia) marked a new phase in the development of the company’s $550 million venture into green hydrogen production in the United States, the first of Fortescue’s planned green energy investments in North America with a soil turn…

Introduction to Deep Bed Filtration: Key Principles and Design Applications

Understanding deep bed filters, their advantages and capabilities, and how they fit into process applications is important when making equipment selection, and determining if deep bed filtration is the correct choice for a given application. This paper aims to be…