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Albemarle to locate new LiOH facility in South Carolina

Albemarle Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.) announced plans to locate its previously announced lithium hydroxide (LiOH) Mega-Flex facility in Chester County, South Carolina. Plans for the facility include an initial investment of at least $1.3 billion to help meet the surging demand…

Wacker expands production of silicone sealants at its Nünchritz site

In response to growing demand, Wacker Chemie AG (Munich, Germany) is expanding its production and cartridge filling capacities for silicone sealants at its Nünchritz site. The expansion will increase the company’s capability to supply customers, who contract Wacker to produce…

Stora Enso and Kolon Industries to collaborate on bio-based polyesters

Stora Enso Oyj (Helsinki, Finland) and Kolon Industries have signed a Joint Development Agreement to develop and industrialize bio-based polyesters and their applications, as well as renewable binder resin formulations. Application areas can cover, for example, packaging, car tire reinforcements,…

Sulzer announces startup of world’s largest pygas-to-styrene extraction unit

Sulzer Chemtech’s GTC Technology business has completed the start-up of the world’s largest facility for styrene extraction from pyrolysis gasoline (pygas) derived from naphtha cracking. Located in Zhejiang Petroleum & Chemical Co., Ltd.’s (ZPC) integrated refining and petrochemical complex in…

Technip Energies commences study for Texas Green Fuels export complex

Technip Energies (Paris) has been selected by Texas Green Fuels (TGF) to commence pre-FEED (Front-End Engineering and Design) for the TGF Galveston Bay clean fuels export project. TGF's export complex will produce industrial-scale, cost-effective, and sustainable fuels such as clean…

Chevron Lummus Global licenses process technology to the Mumbai Refinery

Chevron Lummus Global LLC (CLG) announced that Bharat Petroleum Corp. Ltd. (BPCL) has selected its ISOFINISHING technology for a catalytic processing unit at the Mumbai Refinery in Mumbai, India. Once complete, the unit will have a capacity of 200,000 metric…

Air Liquide announces €60-million ASU upgrade in China

Air Liquide S.A. (Paris) will invest around €60 million to revamp two Air Separation Units (ASUs) the Group operates in the Tianjin industrial basin, in China. This announcement comes within the context of the renewal of a long-term industrial gases…

CF Industries to acquire IPL ammonia complex in Louisiana

CF Industries Holdings, Inc. (Deerfield, Ill.) announced that it has signed a definitive purchase agreement with Incitec Pivot Limited for IPL’s ammonia production complex located in Waggaman, Louisiana. The facility has a nameplate capacity of 880,000 tons of ammonia annually.…

Varennes Carbon Recycling selects Accelera by Cummins to supply electrolyzer system in Quebec

Accelera by Cummins, a business segment of Cummins Inc. (Columbus, Ind.), will supply a 90-megawatt (MW) proton exchange membrane (PEM) electrolyzer system for Varennes Carbon Recycling’s (VCR) plant in Quebec, Canada – a key step in advancing North America’s green…

HydrogenPro to construct new electrolyzer plant in Texas

HydrogenPro (Porsgrunn, Norway) will expand in the U.S. with a new plant in Texas with a manufacturing capacity of 500 MW. With this, HydrogenPro will take a market-leading position and become the only viable large-scale player providing high-pressure alkaline electrolyzer…