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Valmet invests in press felt production in Finland

Valmet Oyj (Espoo, Finland) is further developing its press felt production facilities in Tampere, Finland by investing in new press felt machinery and equipment. The investment includes a new pre-needling line and a new needling line. The amount of the…

Black & Veatch announces start of commissioning at bio-fermentation facility in China

With demand for protein from the world’s rapidly growing population expected to rise, commissioning is now underway at the world’s first industrial-scale FeedKind facility in Chongqing, China. FeedKind is an alternative feed ingredient for the aquaculture and animal feed industry…

Scottish Power developing plans for new green-hydrogen production plant

ScottishPower, with Hutchison Ports, is exploring the opportunity to develop, build and operate a multi-hundred MW green hydrogen production facility at the Port of Felixstowe – with the potential to decarbonize industry and transportation in the region. Both companies have…

Chemours begins commissioning new mineral sand mine in Florida

The Chemours Co. (Wilmington, Del.) announced it has begun commissioning its newest mineral sand mine, Trail Ridge South in Clay County, Florida. The new mining operation represents a $93 million investment that will create approximately 50 new jobs in the…

Bilfinger supporting Gasunie collaborate on green-hydrogen storage project in the Netherlands

Bilfinger SE (Mannheim, Germany) is supporting Gasunie (Groningen, the Netherlands), an energy infrastructure company in the Netherlands and northern Germany, with the engineering of the HyStock project, an underground hydrogen storage facility near Zuidwending in the Netherlands. This new green…

Koch Fertilizer plans $30-million expansion project at Dodge City UAN plant.

Koch Fertilizer (Wichita, Kan.) is planning a $30 million optimization project at its Dodge City, Kansas nitrogen plant to increase Urea Ammonium Nitrate (UAN) production by 35,000 tons per year. “We are dedicated to being our customer’s long-term supplier of…

Wood awarded two engineering contracts in Uzbekistan

Wood plc (Aberdeen, Scotland) has secured two new contracts from Enter Engineering with a combined value of over $200 million, to deliver major capital investment projects in Uzbekistan. The first will see Wood’s Projects business deliver the full engineering scope,…

Merck acquires chemicals business of Korean firm Mecaro

Merck KGaA (Darmstadt, Germany) announced the signing of a definitive agreement to acquire the chemical business of Mecaro Co. Ltd. (Mecaro), a Korea-based and publicly listed manufacturer of heater blocks and chemical precursors for semiconductors. The acquisition is part of…

Baker Hughes to acquire inspection specialist Quest Integrity

Baker Hughes Co. (Houston) has announced an agreement to acquire Quest Integrity, a subsidiary of Team, Inc and a global leader in the development and delivery of technology-enabled asset inspection and reliability management solutions across the pipeline, refining, petrochemical and power…

Sasol Chemicals is expanding its use of ‘green’ steam in Germany

Sasol Chemicals, a business unit of Sasol Ltd. (Johannesburg, South Africa),plans to double its use of green steam from a first of its kind biomass cogeneration facility adjacent to its Brunsbüttel, Germany facility. Sasol Chemicals will lease land adjacent to…