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Encina and Flint Hills Resources partner on potential production of waste-plastic-based fuels and chemicals

Encina Development Group, LLC (The Woodlands, Tex.; www.encina.com.) announced the signing of a non-binding term sheet with Flint Hills Resources, LLC (Wichita, Kan.; www.fhr.com) to produce renewable chemicals and renewable fuels from waste plastic. The term sheet contemplates that the…

3M proposes $1 billion in investments toward reaching sustainability goals

 3M (St. Paul, Minn.) announced it expects to invest approximately $1 billion over the next 20 years to accelerate new environmental goals: achieve carbon neutrality by 2050, reduce water use by 25% at its facilities, and return higher quality water…

Mitsubishi Chemical to consolidate water-treatment membrane operations

Mitsubishi Chemical Corp. (MCC; Tokyo) announced that it will transfer to its own operations and consolidate its membrane-related technology development and sales currently undertaken by its subsidiary Mitsubishi Chemical Aqua Solutions Co., Ltd. (MCAS) effective April 1, 2021. The aim…

Austria’s largest green-hydrogen plant being constructed at OMV refinery

OMV AG (Vienna, Austria) and Kommunalkredit Austria AG (Kommunalkredit) have announced a joint investment in the construction of Austria’s largest electrolysis plant in the OMV Schwechat Refinery. Total investment will be around EUR 25 million, with OMV and Kommunalkredit each…

BP joins the IBM Quantum Network to advance use of quantum computing

IBM announced that bp plc (London) has joined the IBM Quantum Network to advance the use of quantum computing in the energy industry. By joining the IBM Quantum Network as an Industry Partner, bp will have access to IBM's quantum…

JGC wins FEED contract for gas separation plant in Kazakhstan

JGC Corp. (Yokohama, Japan) was awarded the Front End Engineering and Design (FEED) contract for a gas separation plant construction project in the Republic of Kazakhstan being planned by KazMunayGas, Kazakhstan's state-owned oil company, and its subsidiary, KLPE. This project…

Air Products starts up cryogenic N2 plant in Malaysia

Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.) announced it has brought on-stream its first cryogenic nitrogen plant in the Bayan Lepas Free Industrial Zone, Penang, Northern Malaysia. The new facility further expands the company’s capacity and reinforces its leading supply position in…

Chemours announces new fluoroproducts-focused business segments

The Chemours Company (Wilmington, Del.) announced that, during the fourth quarter of 2020, the Company divided its former Fluoroproducts segment into two new reportable segments: Thermal & Specialized Solutions (TSS, formerly Fluorochemicals) and Advanced Performance Materials (APM, formerly Fluoropolymers). This…

GEA supplies gas-cleaning systems for two Cepsa refineries in Spain

GEA Group AG (Düsseldorf, Germany) has received two orders for gas cleaning systems from the oil and energy group Compañía Española de Petróleos SA (Cepsa, Madrid, Spain) for their refineries in La Rabida and San Roque. The scope of supply…

Orlen contracts DuPont Clean Technologies for refinery upgrade in Lithuania

DuPont Clean Technologies (DuPont) has been awarded the contract to supply Orlen Lietuva with licensing, engineering, and technical services for a Stratco alkylation unit and a MECS spent acid regeneration (SAR) unit at the Mažeikiai refinery in Mažeikiai, Lithuania. The…