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Air Liquide starts up world’s largest molybdenum manufacturing plant

Air Liquide S.A. (Paris, France) has successfully started up a new plant in Hwaseong, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea. This Molybdenum manufacturing plant, the largest in the world, will supply leading semiconductor customers with its breakthrough advanced materials portfoilo, SubleemTM. The…

Freepoint Eco-Systems and Source One join forces to develop waste pyrolysis infrastructure in Europe

Freepoint Eco-Systems International Ltd. (Stamford, Conn.) and Source One GmbH (Leiferde, Germany) have agreed to enter into a long-term collaboration agreement to develop multiple pretreatment facilities to treat waste streams, such as post-consumer waste (PCR), to support the growth of…

Toray supplying RO membranes for advanced desalination plant in western Saudi Arabia

Toray Industries, Inc. (Tokyo) announced that it has supplied reverse osmosis (RO) membranes to the Shuaibah 3 IWP seawater desalination plant in Saudi Arabia through Dammam-based subsidiary Toray Membrane Middle East LLC. The Plant’s daily potable water production capacity is…

GEA opens food application and technology center in Wisconsin

GEA Group (Düsseldorf, Germany) opened its New Food Application and Technology Center (ATC) in Janesville, Wisconsin, on July 17, 2025. The $20 million facility is the company’s second global Center of Excellence dedicated to alternative proteins and sustainable food solutions…

KBR awarded FEED contract for ammonia and urea plant in Iraq

KBR, Inc. (Houston) announced that it has been awarded a front-end engineering design (FEED) contract for the development of an ammonia and urea production plant by KAR Electrical Power Production Trading FZE (KEPPT) in Basra, Iraq. Under the terms of…

Tokuyama and OCI form JV for polycrystalline silicon products

Tokuyama Corp. (Tokyo) announced the establishment of  a joint venture (JV) company with OCI TerraSus, a Malaysian subsidiary of the OCI Group (Seoul, South Korea), for the production and sale of semiconductor-grade polycrystalline silicon semi-finished products in Malaysia, to be…

Moeve and Zaffra exploring development of e-SAF facilities in Spain

Moeve (formerly Cepsa; Madrid, Spain) and Zaffra, a joint venture between Sasol and Topsoe, announce the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) that will see the Spanish energy firm and the Amsterdam based e-SAF developer take a step forward…

Mosaic opens new fertilizer facility in Brazil

The Mosaic Co. (Tampa, Fla.) announced that its new fertilizer blending, storage and distribution plant in Palmeirante, Tocantins, Brazil, will begin operations this month.  The plant increases blending capacity and expands Mosaic's presence in the fast-growing northern region of Brazil.…

Wacker commissions new ultra-pure polysilicon plant in Burghausen, Germany

Wacker Chemie AG (Munich, Germany) commissioned its new production line for the manufacture of ultra-pure semiconductor-grade polysilicon at its Burghausen production site in Germany. Accompanied by customers, suppliers and project partners, high-profile figures including Bavaria’s Minister-President Markus Söder and Gitta…

Baker Hughes and Petronas enter partnership to advance supply chain and technology solutions in Asia

Baker Hughes, Inc. (Houston) and Petroliam Nasional Berhad of Malaysia (Petronas), announced that they have entered a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on a strategic partnership to explore business initiatives that have the potential to support the delivery of Asia’s energy…