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Asahi Kasei starts joint demonstration project for recycling metals from electrolyzer components

Asahi Kasei Corp. (Tokyo) has started a joint demonstration with Nobian, Furuya Metal, and Mastermelt on the recycling of metals, including precious metals, used in the cells and electrodes incorporated in electrolyzers used for the production of caustic soda. Through…

Cyclic Materials to build first commercial magnet-recycling facility in Arizona

Cyclic Materials Inc. (Toronto, Ont., Canada) announced it has invested over $20 million in its first commercial facility, located in Mesa, Arizona. The new state-of-the-art facility will be the company’s first global REE recycling operation focused on the separation of…

Lummus Technology to acquire NAPCON assets from Neste

Lummus Technology (Houston) and Neste Corp. (Espoo, Finland) announced the companies have signed an agreement in which Lummus Technology will acquire the intellectual property and certain assets of NAPCON, Neste’s proprietary digital technology solutions provider. The agreement also includes the…

ICL to acquire ag-biochemical tech firm Lavie Bio

Evogene Ltd.  a leading computational biology company, announced the signing of a definitive agreement under which ICL Ltd. (Tel Aviv, Israel) will acquire the majority of activity of Evogene's subsidiary, Lavie Bio Ltd. As part of the agreement, ICL will…

Clariant and Midrex reinforce partnership for lower-carbon steel production

Clariant AG (Muttenz, Switzerland) announced that it has renewed its successful partnership with Midrex Technologies, Inc. and will intensify collaboration in direct reduced iron (DRI) technology for steel production. A low-carbon alternative to conventional coal-based ironmaking, natural gas-based DRI converts…

Actilium breaks ground on the U.K.’s first large-scale battery-recycling plant

Altilium Metals Ltd. (Plymouth, U.K.) announced that construction has begun on the U.K.’s first at-scale EV battery recycling facility with integrated chemical refining capabilities, located in Plymouth, Devon. The groundbreaking ACT 3 scale-up plant will place the UK at the…

BASF completes divestment of shares in its two joint ventures in Korla, China

BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) has divested its shares in the joint venture (JV) companies, BASF Markor Chemical Manufacturing (Xinjiang) Co., Ltd. and Markor Meiou Chemical (Xinjiang) Co., Ltd. in Korla, China, to Verde Chemical Singapore Pte. Ltd. Following approval by…

Milliken opens new manufacturing facility in Singapore

According to reports from the Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB), Milliken & Company (Spartanburg, S.C.) announced the opening of its new manufacturing facility in Singapore. This strategic capacity expansion is Milliken’s first chemical plant in Asia and grows the company’s…

Technip Energies awarded FEED contract for Jet Zero Australia SAF project

Technip Energies (Paris) has been awarded a Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) contract by Jet Zero Australia Pty Ltd (Jet Zero) for Project Ulysses, a bioethanol to sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) project located in Townsville, Australia.  The FEED covers an extensive…

CleanTech Lithium and Dupont collaborating to implement nanofiltration lithium-processing technology

CleanTech Lithium, a sustainable lithium developer in Chile, is collaborating with DuPont Water Solutions, a business unit of DuPont (Wilmington, Del.), to test lithium processing technology. DuPont has developed a new nanofiltration (NF) membrane technology for high lithium recovery. This…