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Merck KGaA investing €70 million in new Advanced Materials Development Center in Japan

Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany announced that it will invest over €70 million to construct a new Advanced Materials Development Center (AMDC) at its Shizuoka site in Japan. This latest investment brings the company's total investment in the Shizuoka site to…

BP makes final investment decision for green hydrogen project at Lingen refinery

Bp plc (London) has made the final investment decision (FID) for the “Lingen Green Hydrogen” project. The company wants to achieve a significant milestone on the path to the development of green hydrogen on an industrial scale in Germany. Supported…

Vitol acquires majority stake in plastics recycling firm WPU

Vitol B.V. (Geneva, Switzerland) has entered into a conditional agreement to acquire a controlling interest in Waste Plastic Upcycling A/S (WPU). On completion, which is subject to certain conditions precedent, Vitol will own 90.36% of the share capital of WPU.…

Standard Lithium and Equinor begin operation of pilot direct lithium extraction unit in Arkansas

SWA Lithium, the Joint Venture (JV) between Equinor Energy AS (Stavanger, Norway) and Equinor ASA (Stavanger, Norway), which is developing the South West Arkansas Project (SWA), is pleased to announce that, in partnership with Koch Technology Solutions (KTS), it has…

BASF, Endress+Hauser and research partners collaborate to optimize mechanical recycling of plastics

BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) has teamed up with Endress+Hauser Ltd. (Reinach, Switzerland) and TechnoCompound (Bad Sobernheim, Germany), as well as the Universities of Bayreuth and Jena to study how the mechanical recycling of plastics can be improved. With funding from…

Worley awarded EPC contract for ExxonMobil’s Baytown low-carbon H2 facility

Worley Ltd. (North Sydney, Australia) will provide reimbursable Engineering, Procurement and Construction services (EPC) to ExxonMobil Corp. (Irving, Tex.) for the Enabling Works, Infrastructure and Interconnects scope of ExxonMobil’s planned low-carbon hydrogen and ammonia facility. The facility is adjacent to…

MilliporeSigma to acquire advanced biotechnology specialist HUB Organoids Holding B.V.

MilliporeSigma (Billerica, Mass.), the U.S. and Canada Life Science business of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, announced that the Life Science business of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany has signed a definitive agreement with the intention to acquire HUB Organoids Holding B.V.…

Toray to construct pilot facility to produce new all-carbon CO2-separation membranes

Toray Industries, Inc. (Tokyo) will install a pilot facility for its all-carbon carbon dioxide (CO2) separation membrane at its Shiga Plant. An all-carbon CO2-separation membrane owes its high performance to a dual-layer structure, comprising a thin carbon-film separation layer on…

Röhm and Nextchem to collaborate on PMMA circularity

MAIRE SpA (Milan, Italy) announced that Nextchem (Sustainable Technology Solutions), through its subsidiary MyRemono, has signed a Toll Manufacturing Agreement with Röhm GmbH (Darmstadt, Germany) under which Röhm will supply PMMA scrap material feedstock to be processed and chemically transformed by…

Fortera and Sumitomo Corporation to partner on low-carbon cement projects in Asia

Green cement manufacturer Fortera Corp. (San Jose, Calif.) is partnering with multinational Sumitomo Corp. (Tokyo) to position the market for widespread adoption of Fortera’s carbon-reducing ReCarb technology. The two companies have agreed to a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to focus on…