Eni S.p.A. (Rome, Italy) and Saipem S.p.A. (San Donato Milanese, Italy) have signed an agreement for the development of biorefining projects. It was signed by Giuseppe Ricci, Chief Operating Officer for Energy Evolution at Eni, and Alessandro Puliti, Chief Executive…
Braskem S.A. and Indorama Ventures IOD - Oxiteno (both São Paulo, Brazil) have announced a partnership to supply bio-attributed ethylene from renewable sources. Bio-attributed ethylene, certified by ISCC (International Sustainability and Carbon Certification), will be used by Oxiteno to create…
DuPont (Wilmington, Del.) announced the official opening of its new DuPont Kalrez manufacturing site in Newark, Delaware to meet growing global customer demand from the semiconductor and industrials sectors. The new facility, the Tralee Park Annex, was officially inaugurated with…
Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium) confirms its plans to build a new battery-grade PVDF facility in Augusta, Georgia. With more than half of U.S. car sales projected to be electric by 2030, the U.S. produced PVDF - a thermoplastic fluoropolymer -…
The chemical process industries (CPI) are exploring and investing in multiple technologies and operational improvements, striving to create smarter plants and more efficient processes so they can continuously improve productivity, sustainability and safety in their operations. These factors are pushing…
Henkel AG (Düsseldorf, Germany) has acquired the U.S.-based firm Critica Infrastructure (“Critica”), a specialized supplier of maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) composite solutions for the world’s most critical infrastructure such as oil and gas transmission as well as municipal water…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) and 3Helix Inc., a U.S.-based technology startup, announce their innovation partnership on 3Helix’s proprietary Collagen Hybridizing Peptide (CHP) technology. The partnership involves an equity investment and licensing agreement, granting BASF exclusive rights to commercialize CHP solutions…
Alfa Laval AB (Lund, Sweden) is establishing a new business unit –Electrolyzer and Fuel Cell Technologies – with the aim of capturing business opportunities in the hydrogen sector. This initiative underlines the company’s commitment to driving the energy transformation towards…
W.R. Grace & Co (Grace; Columbia, Md.) announced that Oriental Energy Co. Ltd. (Oriental Energy) has started up a new plant with Grace’s UNIPOL PP Process Technology. Located in Maoming, China, the new 400,000-ton/yr reactor line began producing high-quality homopolymers…
Lummus Technology (Houston) announced Haldia Petrochemicals Ltd. (HPL) will license its olefins conversion technology (OCT) and the Lummus/Versalis cumene and phenol technologies for a new plant in West Bengal, India. Once HPL's plant is complete, it will be India's largest cumene…