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Henkel opens new applications center in Santa Clara, Calif.

Henkel AG (Düsseldorf, Germany) announced the opening of its Application Center in Santa Clara, CA designed to support product development for the company’s high-tech customers in the Silicon Valley region. Equipped as a state-of-the-art facility, the Application Center will help…

KBR awarded green-ammonia technology contract by JGC

KBR, Inc. (Houston) announced that it was awarded a contract for its green ammonia technology, K-GreeN, from JGC Corp. (Yokohama, Japan) for a project sponsored by New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO), a national research and development agency…

Evonik outlines strategic plan to exit Performance Materials sector

 As a part of its next phase of its strategic transformation, Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany) is aligning its portfolio completely to its three growth divisions: Specialty Additives, Nutrition & Care, and Smart Materials. Preparations are already under way for…

Sandvik to acquire Schenck Process Group’s mining business

Sandvik AB (Sandviken, Sweden) has signed an agreement to acquire the mining related business of Schenck Process Group (SP Mining). SP Mining is one of the market leaders in screening, feeding and screening media solutions in the industry. The company…

BP signs offtake agreement with Clean Planet Energy for circular naphtha

bp plc (London) has signed a ten-year offtake agreement with Clean Planet Energy, a U.K.-based company that is developing facilities to convert hard-to-recycle waste plastics into circular petrochemical feedstocks and also into ultra-low sulfur diesel (ULSD). Clean Planet Energy designs…

Veolia to sell European mobile water-services business to Saur

Saur and Veolia (Paris) have signed a unilateral put agreement under which Saur has committed to acquire Veolia's mobile water services business in Europe, which is part of the antitrust remedies required by the European Commission. The value of the…

Verbio inaugurates cellulosic RNG plant in Iowa

Verbio Vereinigte BioEnergie AG (Leipzig, Germany) has announced the inauguration of its new renewable natural gas (RNG) production facility in Nevada, Iowa. The plant will achieve full-scale production in summer 2022. Verbio CEO Claus Sauter: “The plant in Nevada (Iowa)…

Wood awarded contract for Esseco chemical plant

Wood plc (Aberdeen, Scotland) has been appointed capital delivery partner by Esseco UK for the company’s chemical production facility in Wakefield, U.K. The five-year contract will see Wood draw on its rich experience and capability in asset maintenance and operations…

Air Liquide and Lhoist to decarbonize lime-production plant in France

Air Liquide S.A. (Paris) and Lhoist Group have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the aim to decarbonize Lhoist’s lime production plant located in Réty, in the Hauts-de-France region, using Air Liquide’s innovative and proprietary Cryocap carbon capture technology.…

DuPont Interconnect Solution completes production expansion at Ohio site

DuPont Interconnect Solutions, a business within DuPont’s Electronics & Industrial segment, held a ribbon-cutting ceremony with elected officials and business leaders to formally mark the completion of its $250-million capital project to expand production of Kapton polyimide film and Pyralux…