Nel ASA (Oslo, Norway) has opened a new automated electrolyzerplant at Herøya, which is contributing to unlocking new application areas where green hydrogen is the best or only option for decarbonizing. The secret is scale-up and automation, which is lowering…
KBR, Inc. (Houston) announced that it has been awarded a 7-year contract with an option to extend for another 3 years, for the provision of General Maintenance Services (GMS) by Saudi Aramco TOTAL Refining and Petrochemical Company (SATORP), for its…
Royal DSM N.V. (Herleen, the Netherlands) has reached an agreement to sell its Protective Materials business to Avient Corp. (Cleveland, Ohio) for an Enterprise Value of €1.44 billion. The proposed transaction includes all of DSM’s Protective Materials activities, chiefly consisting…
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (Waltham, Mass.) announced the opening of its new single-use technology manufacturing site in Ogden, Utah. The state-of-the-art facility creates additional capacity to produce the high-quality technology and materials needed for the development of new vaccines and…
Sekisui Chemical Co. (Osaka, Japan) and INCJ, Ltd. announced the completion of a waste-to-ethanol demonstration plant in Kuji City, Iwate, Japan. This plant represents a significant opportunity for creating sustainable feedstocks used in the manufacture of other products from waste…
JERA Co., Inc. (Tokyo) and Sumitomo Chemical Co. (Tokyo, Japan) have received notice that their grant application, under the Green Innovation Fund program of the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO), to conduct a project to develop a…
ExxonMobil Corp. (Houston) is undertaking early front-end engineering design studies (pre-FEED) to determine the potential for carbon capture and storage (CCS) to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from multiple industries in the Gippsland Basin. The South East Australia carbon capture and…
TotalEnergies (Paris) and ENEOS Corp. (Tokyo, Japan) announced a collaboration to jointly conduct a feasibility study to assess the production of Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) in ENEOS Negishi Refinery in Yokohama city, Japan. The companies have already started to conduct…
Archer-Daniels-Midland Co. (ADM; Chicago) will invest approximately $300 million to significantly expand its Decatur, Illinois, alternative protein production, as the company continues to add capacity to meet strong demand growth. ADM will further enhance its alternative protein capabilities by opening…
Linde plc (Guildford, U.K.) announced that it is expanding its La Porte, Texas, facility, effectively doubling the facility’s merchant liquid production capacity. Starting up in 2024, the increased capacity will help Linde to meet growing demand from the petrochemicals, clean…