The Chemours Company (Wilmington, Del.) announced the implementation of an improvement project to significantly reduce emissions of HFC-23 at its Louisville, Kentucky manufacturing site. The project includes the design, custom-build and installation of proprietary technology to capture at least 99%…
TrinamiX, a wholly owned subsidiary of BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany), now supports the reliable differentiation between polyamide 6 (PA6) and polyamide 6.6 (PA66) with its Mobile Near-Infrared Spectroscopy Solution. Within seconds, plastic waste from the two polyamides can be sorted…
Saipem S.p.A. (San Donato Milanese, Italy) and Alboran Hydrogen have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the joint development and the construction of five plants for the production of green hydrogen through the electrolysis process, three of which in…
OMV AG (Vienna, Austria) plans to build a pilot plant at its Schwechat Refinery, which will produce second-generation biofuels from 2023 using a patented process developed inhouse. The plant involves advanced biofuels that are not in competition with foodstuffs. A…
Metso Outotec Corp. (Helsinki, Finland) has been awarded a contract for the engineering and delivery two 170 ton/h Bayer process flash evaporation plants to National Aluminium Company’s (NALCO) Damanjodi Alumina Refinery in Odisha, India. The value of the order is approximately…
Dow, Inc. (Midland, Mich.) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Zhanjiang Economic and Technological Development Zone Administrative Committee (Zhanjiang EDZ) to build the Dow South China Specialties Hub, a multi-year project providing customers local access to Dow’s portfolio…
DuPont (Wilmington, Del.) announced that it has entered into a collaboration with Waterise to provide seawater reverse osmosis (RO) membranes and expertise to the company’s subsea desalination plants. Waterise is a Norwegian company with a groundbreaking and ready to go…
Casale SA (Lugano, Switzerland) has announced that its technology will be used to boost capacity at one of IFFCO’s (Indian Farmers Fertiliser Cooperative Ltd.) fertilizer complexes. The site in Kandla, Gujarat produces phosphates and nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium (NPK) fertilizer.…
Corbion (Amsterdam, the Netherlands) is launching a multi-faceted initiative to substantially increase its capacity for producing lactic acid and lactic-acid derivatives ahead of its previously announced major expansion in Thailand scheduled for 2023. The global initiative, involving capital expenditures at four existing Corbion facilities to maximize efficiencies and leverage synergies, is expected to produce a combined additional output roughly equivalent…
North American composites supplier Composites One (Schaumburg, Ill.) has completed its purchase of the Process Materials business from Solvay S.A.’s (Brussels, Belgium) Composites Materials Global Business. The acquisition is a unique opportunity for the company to add international manufacturing and…