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Haldor Topsoe to provide blue ammonia technology for Air Products’ new clean energy complex

Haldor Topsoe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark) will deliver Blue Ammonia technology for Air Products’ landmark $4.5 billion clean energy complex in Louisiana. Air Products’ megaproject, which will produce over 750 million standard cubic feet per day of blue hydrogen. A portion…

Technip Energies and Shell announce pilot project for Cansolv CO2-capture system

Technip Energies (Paris) and Shell Catalysts & Technologies announced that their jointly developed improvements on the Cansolv CO2 Capture technology are being tested in a pilot plant campaign at Fortum Oslo Varme’s Waste to Energy plant. In response to the…

Evonik expands production capacity for organic dispersions at Darmstadt plant

Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany) has expanded its production capacity for organic dispersions used for heat sealing applications. Since the beginning of August, a significantly expanded plant at the Darmstadt site has been supplying additional material. The specialty chemicals company…

Lanxess to expand antioxidant production capacity in Taiwan

Lanxess AG (Cologne, Germany) is expanding its production capacity for light-color aminic antioxidants at its Taiwan site by several kilo tons. The specialty chemicals company is investing an upper single-digit million Euro amount to expand its facility in response to…

Milliken & Co. acquires microencapsulation specialist Encapsys

Milliken & Co. (Spartanburg, S.C.) has formally acquired Encapsys, LLC, a world leader in microencapsulation, from the Cypress Performance Group LLC (“Cypress”). The transaction officially closed October 18, 2021. “Moving the needle on sustainability requires big thinking and powerful collaborations.…

Solvay accelerates development in solid-state battery materials

Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium) announced several investment efforts to advance its work to develop the next-generation of solid-state electrolytes for batteries. On the ground, investments started with the opening earlier this year of a dry room laboratory in Solvay’s research center near…

Metso Outotec to provide solvent-extraction technology for cobalt refinery expansion in Canada

Metso Outotec Corp. (Helsinki, Finland) has signed an agreement with the Canadian battery materials company First Cobalt Corporation to deliver Planet Positive solvent extraction technology to their cobalt refinery expansion in Ontario. The value of the order is approximately EUR 10 million,…

Air Products announces plans to build $4.5-billion blue-hydrogen plant in Louisiana

Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.) will build, own and operate a $4.5-billion clean-energy megaproject, which will produce over 750 million standard cubic feet per day (MMSCFD) of blue hydrogen in Ascension Parish, Louisiana. “Blue” products are produced utilizing hydrocarbons as…

Plug Power and Fortescue to build 2-GW electrolyzer factory in Australia

Plug Power (Latham, N.Y.) and Fortescue Future Industries Pty Ltd (FFI) signed a letter of intent for a 50-50 joint venture to build a Gigafactory in Queensland, Australia. As part of the agreement, the two organizations intend to build a…

Consortium exploring green-hydrogen production hub in Orkney, Scotland

Offshore Wind Power Limited (OWPL), the consortium formed by Macquarie’s Green Investment Group, TotalEnergies and Scottish developer Renewable Infrastructure Development Group (RIDG) has announced it is studying the use of offshore wind to power the production of green hydrogen on…