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Canada’s largest industrial-scale biochar plant inaugurated

Airex Energy (Bécancour, Quebec, Canada), Groupe Rémabec, a Quebec-based forestry company and SUEZ Group (Paris) inaugurated  Carbonity, Canada's first industrial-scale biochar plant, in Port-Cartier. Resulting from a partnership between the three companies, the plant will start with a production capacity…

Borealis and Borouge expand global XLPE and Semicon capacity

Borealis Group (Vienna, Austria) and Borouge Plc have announced a significant expansion of their global capacity for cross-linked polyethylene (XLPE) and semiconductive (semicon) compounds—supporting customers to deliver the power cables essential to distribution and transmission grids. By the end of…

Wood selected as project management consultancy for first major methanol plant in the UAE

Wood plc (Aberdeen, U.K.) has secured a contract from TA’ZIZ to provide project management consultancy (PMC) for the development of the U.A.E.’s first methanol production facility in Al Ruwais Industrial City, Abu Dhabi. Construction will be completed by 2028 and…

thyssenkrupp nucera and Fraunhofer IKTS open pilot plant to produce SOEC electrolyzer cells

Thyssenkrupp nucera AG & Co. KGaA (Dortmund, Germany) and Fraunhofer IKTS opened the first SOEC pilot production plant for electrolysis stacks on May 27 in Arnstadt, Thuringia, Germany, in the presence of high-ranking representatives from science, politics, and industry. The…

Elementis sells Talc business for $121 million

Elementis plc (London) has simultaneously signed and completed the sale of its Talc business to IMI Fabi S.p.A, a global talc manufacturer, for an enterprise value of $121 million, with net cash proceeds after transaction costs in the region of…

Borealis to expand polymer-foam production capacity in Germany

Borealis Group (Vienna, Austria) announced that its facility in Burghausen, Germany is significantly expanding production capacity for an innovative polymer-foam solution called Daploy High Melt Strength polypropylene (HMS PP). This investment—totaling over EUR 100 million—addresses growing global demand for recyclable,…

Syensqo expands compounding capacity at Changshu plant

Syensqo S.A. (Brussels, Belgium) announced the completion of a significant compounding capacity expansion at its Changshu plant. This strategic initiative includes compounding lines for several products, such as Amodel® PPA, Ryton® PPS, Kalix® HPPA, Omnix® HPPA, and Ixef® PARA, which are widely used in…

Aramco commissions iron-vanadium flow battery for energy storage

Aramco (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) has achieved a world-first by successfully commissioning a megawatt (MW)-scale renewable energy storage system to power gas production activities. It is the first deployment globally of an Iron-Vanadium (Fe/V) flow battery as a backup solar power…

Huntsman to expand Performance Products manufacturing site in Texas

Huntsman Corp. (The Woodlands, Tex.) announced that its Performance Products division has expanded its manufacturing site in Conroe, Texas to better serve the growing needs of its global customers in the semiconductor industry. Peter Huntsman, Chairman, President, and CEO of…

First-of-its-kind project converts datacenter waste heat into biomass

Data4 (Paris, France), leading European datacenter operator, and the Fondation de l’Université Paris Saclay announced the launch of a groundbreaking proof-of-concept project aimed at transforming heat from its servers into biomass. This ambitious project, deployed at its Marcoussis, France site,…