Honeywell International, Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.) and Oriental Energy Company Ltd. jointly announced that a sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) production facility with an annual output capacity of 1 million tons will be built in Maoming, Guangdong Province in China. The new…
hte GmbH – the high throughput experimentation company (Heidelberg, Germany) was selected last year by Gevo Inc. (Englewood, Colo.) to advance their understanding of the catalytic dehydration of biogenic isobutanol to form isobutylene. This is a key step in the chemical…
Afton Chemical Corp. (Richmond, Va.) has completed its phase 3 expansion to add Gasoline Performance Additives (GPA) blending capabilities at its Singapore Chemical Additive Manufacturing Facility. The expansion is in line with Afton’s ‘Made In’ strategy that focuses on effective…
The Compound Company (Enschede, the Netherlands), a leading developer and manufacturer of compounds, announced it has acquired the production site, product portfolio and customer base for Exxelor polymer resins from ESSO Deutschland GmbH, ExxonMobil in Cologne, Germany. The acquisition will…
Chevron Corp. (San Ramon, Calif.) and Renewable Energy Group, Inc. (REG; Ames, Iowa) announced a definitive agreement under which Chevron will acquire the outstanding shares of REG in an all-cash transaction valued at $3.15 billion, or $61.50 per share. The…
DuPont Sustainable Solutions, a global operations consulting firm, announced it will operate under a new name: dss+ (pronounced ‘dss plus’). Since DuPont Sustainable Solutions became an independent consulting firm after separating from DuPont in 2019, it has evolved and enhanced its…
Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.) announced that bp plc (London) and Honeywell have signed a licensing agreement for Honeywell UOP’s Ecofining technology. bp is undergoing pre-feed engineering for its proposed diesel and sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) project in Western Australia.…
Axens (Rueil-Malmaison, France) and Univation Technologies, LLC (Houston) have entered into a cooperation agreement with the purpose of developing improved capital and operating efficiencies for the production of on-purpose linear alpha olefins (LAO) – including both butene-1 and hexene-1 -for…
Chevron U.S.A. Inc., a subsidiary of Chevron Corp. (San Ramon, Calif.), announced it has made a new investment in Carbon Clean (London), a global leader in cost-effective industrial carbon capture. The size and cost of installing carbon capture technology has…
ExxonMobil Corp. (Houston) has made a final investment decision to expand carbon capture and storage at its LaBarge, Wyoming, facility, which has captured more CO2 than any other facility in the world to date. The expansion project will capture up…