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KBR awarded monitoring and services contract for Dyno Nobel ammonia plant in Louisiana

KBR, Inc. (Houston) announced that it has been awarded a three-year contract by Dyno Nobel to provide digital plant performance monitoring and advisory services for its ammonia plant in Waggaman, Louisiana. Under the terms of the contract, KBR will provide…

Technip Energies partners with Svante to develop industrial-scale carbon capture projects

Technip Energies (Paris) and Svante have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to further develop Svante, Inc.’s (Burnaby, B.C., Canada; www svanteinc.com) solid sorbent carbon capture technology and provide integrated solutions from concept to project delivery. The partnership will…

Viridos executes agreement with ExxonMobil to scale algae biofuels

Viridos Inc., previously Synthetic Genomics, a privately held biotechnology company harnessing the power of photosynthesis to create transformative solutions to help mitigate climate change, has signed a joint agreement with ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Co. (ExxonMobil) with the intent to…

Eni and BF Group form biorefining joint venture

Eni S.p.A. (Rome, Italy)  and the BF Group announced a partnership to develop sustainable agricultural products for biofuel production. Through an equal joint venture (50% Eni, 50% BF), projects will be developed to research and experiment with agricultural seeds from…

Ecolab launches technology platform for advanced recycled-plastic feedstocks

Nalco Water, Ecolab’s water and process management business for industrial customers, has launched a new program for refineries, ethylene producers and chemical recyclers of plastic waste. The program offers an end-to-end suite of chemistries and field expertise that are unique…

Toray to expand carbon-fiber manufacturing capacity in Mexico

Toray Industries, Inc. (Tokyo, Japan) announced that U.S. subsidiary Zoltek Companies, Inc. will bolster its large-tow carbon fiber (with more than 40,000 filaments) production capacity in 2023. The upgrade will cost around $130 million (around ¥14 billion). A Zoltek facility…

LG Chem and GS Caltex to jointly develop biodegradable-plastics technologies

LG Chem Ltd. and GS Caltex (both Seoul, South Korea) will team up to jointly develop mass production technologies of eco-friendly materials for a circulating economy and carbon neutrality. LG Chem signed Joint Development Agreement (JDA) related to the development…

Honeywell expands Baton Rouge facility to double low-GWP HFO production

Honeywell International, Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.) announced the expansion of its facility in Baton Rouge, La. to double the capacity of its Solstice ze (1234ze), an ultra-low-global-warming-potential (GWP) solution. Solstice ze is used in foam insulation, as a propellant in personal…

KBR awarded Plinke technologies contract by Hanwha

KBR, Inc. (Houston) announced that it has secured a contract for its Plinke nitric acid concentration and spent acid recycling technologies from Hanwha Solutions for its new production facilities at Yeosu, South Korea.  Under the terms of the contract, KBR…

Celanese and Mitsubishi Chemical Advanced Materials jointly developing recycling technologies for acetal copolymer

Celanese Corp. (Dallas, Tex.) and Mitsubishi Chemical Advanced Materials (MCAM), a leading global manufacturer of high-performance thermoplastic materials in the form of semi-finished products and finished parts,  announced a joint collaboration to further develop mechanical recycling solutions for both post-industrial…