Maire Tecnimont S.p.A. (Milan, Italy) announced that its subsidiary Tecnimont SpA, through its Indian entity Tecnimont Private Limited, has been awarded an EPCC (Engineering, Procurement, Construction and Commissioning) Lump Sum contract by Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL), for the implementation…
Entegris, Inc. (Billerica, Mass.) is expanding its manufacturing presence in Taiwan with an investment of approximately $200 million over the next three to five years. Entegris plans to commence construction of a new facility in early 2021 and expects to…
Metso Outotec Corp. (Helsinki, Finland) has signed an agreement to sell its aluminum business to REEL International, headquartered in France. The business was announced to be for sale a year ago and has been since reported under discontinued operations. The…
Aker Carbon Capture (Lysaker, Norway) and Haldor Topsoe (Lyngby, Denmark) have signed a memorandum of understanding with the intention to offer a complete solution for low-carbon hydrogen production. The solution combines Haldor Topsoe’s proven hydrogen process and Aker Carbon Capture’s…
Carbon Clean (London) has joined forces with Veolia (Paris, France) to exclusively develop multiple green projects in India. The newly established joint company Veolia Carbon Clean will first develop two carbon capture utilization and storage (CCUS) and compressed biogas (CBG)…
DEME International NV (Zwijndrecht, Belgium) and OQ Alternative Energy (OQ; Muscat, Oman) announced the start of a joint project to develop a world leading, green hydrogen plant in the Special Economic Zone at Duqm, Oman in cooperation with The Public…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen Germany) has reached an agreement to sell its manufacturing site in Kankakee, Illinois and the associated businesses of vegetable-oil-based raw material sterols and natural vitamin E, anionic surfactants and esters produced there to an affiliate of One…
DuPont Nutrition & Biosciences (Wilmington, Del.) and Kemira Oyj (Helsinki, Finland) announced an exclusive partnership for the development and commercialization of DuPont’s enzymatic polymerization-based polysaccharide platform technology for certain applications. The collaboration will bring new, biobased and inherently biodegradable product…
Metso Outotec Oy (Helsinki, Finland) has been awarded a landmark contract by PJSC MMC Norilsk Nickel to modernize one of the company’s two existing smelting lines at their Nadezhda Metallurgical Plant in Norilsk, Russia. The contract value is approximately EUR…
LyondellBasell (Rotterdam, the Netherlands) announced that the Amur Gas Chemical Complex project, being implemented by Sibur Holding PJSC (Moscow, Russia), the largest integrated petrochemicals company in Russia, has selected LyondellBasell’s Spheripol technology for a new facility. The process technology will…