Saudi Arabia’s Saline Water Conversion Corp. (SWCC) and Hyrec Technologies Ltd. (Urla/Izmir, Turkey; www.hyrec.co) signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to deploy Hyrec’s Osmotically Assisted Reverse Osmosis (OARO) technology for zero-liquid-discharge desalination in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The MOU…
For the first time in a lithium extraction project, Australia leaves all process steps from ore mining and separation to refining in the country. With its comprehensive technology portfolio, GEA Group AG (Düsseldorf, Germany; www.gea.com) is supporting its customer Albemarle,…
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…