CSIRO (Melbourne), Australia’s national science agency, has successfully trialled its game-changing hydrogen production technology at BlueScope’s Port Kembla Steelworks in New South Wales, demonstrating affordable and renewable hydrogen can be generated at scale to help decarbonize heavy industry. CSIRO’s tubular…
Pilbara Minerals (West Perth, Australia) and POSCO Holdings (Pohang-si, South Korea) recently held a ceremony marking the completion of construction of Train 2 of the joint Lithium Hydroxide Monohydrate Chemical Facility (Facility), which comprises Train 1 and Train 2, was…
Elkem ASA (Oslo, Norway) has secured €1.8 million in funding from the European Union for the groundbreaking Elkem Sicalo (Silicon production with carbon looping) project, which aims to eliminate all CO2 emissions from silicon production. Elkem, SINTEF and NORCE are…
UBE Corp. (Tokyo) announced that it has decided to increase production capacity of high-purity nitric acid at the Ube Chemical Factory in Yamaguchi Prefecture,Japan, in order to meet a further increase in demand in the future. The new equipment construction…
Givaudan (Zurich, Switzerland) announced the inauguration of its newly expanded production facility at the Pedro Escobedo site in Mexico. The investment in the new extension underscores Givaudan’s commitment to enhancing its encapsulation technologies and meeting the growing demands of its…
Topsoe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark) and Aramco (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) have signed a joint development agreement (JDA) to produce low-carbon hydrogen, also referred to as blue hydrogen, using Topsoe’s ground-breaking eREACT technology in Aramco’s Shaybah NGL facility. The JDA underlines the…
Corteva Inc. (Indianapolis, Ind.) announced a collaboration with bp (London) on the companies’ shared intent to form a crop-based biofuel feedstock joint venture (JV). The JV envisaged by Corteva and bp would produce and deliver crop-based biofuel feedstocks to help…
BASF SE (Ludiwgshafen, Germany) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Shenergy Group through its subsidiaries Shanghai Gas Co. and Shanghai Shenji Environmental Technology Co.. This strategic partnership aims to foster long-term collaboration among the three parties in the commercialization…
Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies, a contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) for biologics, vaccines, advanced therapies, and oncolytic viruses, announced the completion of an expansion of its cell-therapy manufacturing facility in Thousand Oaks, California. The event also celebrated the recent European…
Honeywell International, Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.) announced that it has agreed to sell its Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) business to Protective Industrial Products, Inc. (PIP), a portfolio company of Odyssey Investment Partners, for $1.325 billion in an all-cash transaction. The transaction…