Topsoe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark) today announces its intention to construct world’s largest and most advanced industrial-scale electrolyzer production plant. Topsoe’s ambition is to rapidly accelerate the adoption of green solutions in particular within Power-to-X. In this field, the company has…
The electrolysis specialist thyssenkrupp nucera AG & Co. KGaA (Dortmund, Germany) has opened a new office in Perth, Australia. The new facility is planned to have full sales and project-execution capabilities and is ideally located to support the company’s growth…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen) and thyssenkrupp Uhde GmbH (Dortmund, both Germany) achieved measurable improvements in the STAR process, a proprietary dehydrogenation process from thyssenkrupp Uhde that can produce propylene from propane feedstocks, or iso-butylene from iso-butane feedstocks. The technology has been…
Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.) has awarded thyssenkrupp nucera AG & Co. KGaA (Dortmund, Germany) the supply of its alkaline water electrolysis technology for a 10 metric ton per day facility to produce green liquid hydrogen in Casa Grande, Arizona.…
thyssenkrupp’s Uhde High Pressure Technologies GmbH (Hagen, Germany). won an order from a company in the specialty chemicals sector to fabricate and supply a pharma-grade supercritical fluid extraction (SFE) plant. The scope of supply includes the skid-mounted plant, as well…
The end of 2021 saw an important milestone for Chemieanlagenbau Chemnitz (CAC; Germany) — the successful commissioning of the first ferric chloride plant using proprietary technology. In this plant, the client from Kuwait produces a saleable product, which can be…
Arkema S.A. (Colombes, France) is expanding its offer of engineering adhesives with the planned acquisition of Shanghai Zhiguan Polymer Materials (PMP), specialized in hot-melt adhesives for the consumer electronics market. This project is in line with Bostik’s strategy to build…
Thyssenkrupp Uhde’s (Dortmund, Germany) subsidiary Uhde Inventa-Fischer signed a contract to build three new world-scale polymer plants for SASA Polyester Sanayi A.Ş in Adana, Turkey. One plant is planned to produce 1,050 metric tons (m.t.) per day polyethylene terephthalate (PET)…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen) and Heraeus Precious Metals (Hanau, both Germany) have agreed to form a 50–50 joint venture (JV) to recover precious metals from spent automotive catalysts. The new company named BASF Heraeus (China) Metal Resource Co., Ltd. will be…
Industrial services provider Bilfinger SE (Mannheim, Germany) and clean-tech company Rock Tech Lithium Inc. (Vancouver, B.C., Canada) have signed a letter of intent for an EPCM (engineering, procurement, construction and management) partnership. The agreement relates to the construction of Europe’s…