Haldor Topsoe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark) announced that it has established a focused green hydrogen business to accelerate its electrolysis activities. The new green hydrogen organization is fully dedicated to accelerating all aspects of Topsoe’s business within electrolysis, including development of…
Lummus Technology (Houston) announced that its Green Circle business and Synthos S.A. (Oswiecim, Poland) have started collaborating to commercialize Synthos’ biobutadiene technology. The first step of the commercialization program includes the development of a feasibility study for a biobutadiene plant…
Mitsubishi Chemical Corp. (MCC; Tokyo) has acquired all the shares of Nakai Industrial Co., Ltd., (Kyoto, Japan), a film coating manufacturer, and converted the company into a consolidated subsidiary. Nakai Industrial is a comprehensive coating manufacturer that has built up…
Prime Polymer Co., Ltd., a joint venture between Mitsui Chemicals, Inc. (Tokyo) and Idemitsu Kosan Co.,Ltd. (Tokyo), announced the decision to construct a new polypropylene manufacturing facility as part of its plans for a scrap-and-build-style restructuring of its production system.…
Elkem (Oslo, Norway) announced NOK 140 million (around $17 million) in investments in new infrastructure at its production site in Rana, Norway, enabling usage of wood chips as biocarbon. In addition, an improved charging and water handling system contributes to…
Linde Engineering Americas (LEA) has been selected by the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) to install and test a 200-ton/day CO2 capture large pilot plant at the City Water, Light & Power (CWLP) power plant in…
Toray Industries, Inc. (Tokyo, Japan) announced that new film-development machinery installed at its Mishima Plant has become fully operational. This new setup will enable the company to create advanced offerings for an increasingly sophisticated and diverse film market. The machinery…
At the Ordinary and Extraordinary Shareholders’ Meeting, shareholders approved today, almost unanimously, the resolution to change the company’s name from Total to TotalEnergies SE, thereby anchoring its strategic transformation into a broad energy company in its identity. In tandem with…
Wood (Aberdeen, Scotland) has been engaged by Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) to perform Pre Front-End Engineering and Design (Pre-FEED) work for the company’s recently announced blue ammonia project and the six additional TA’ZIZ chemicals projects. Adnoc recently announced…
Toyo Engineering India Pvt. Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Toyo Engineering Corp. (Toyo), has been awarded an ammonia plant project with a capacity of 1,500 tons per day and associated offsite and utility facilities from Performance Chemiserve Limited (PCL),…