Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.) announced that it has signed a Front-end Engineering and Design (FEED) contract with Heidelberg Materials AG (Heidelberg, Germany) for its GeZero project to integrate an industrial-scale carbon capture and storage (CCS) solution into its cement production…
Fujifilm Corp. (Tokyo) announced that it will enhance its production capacity of CMP slurries, which are advanced semiconductor materials, at its production site located in Kikuyo Town, Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan. This expansion aims to support the increasing demand for semiconductor…
INEOS Enterprises Ltd. (London) has entered into an agreement for the sale of the INEOS Composites business to KPS Capital Partners, LP (KPS) for an estimated consideration of around €1.7 billion at completion. The business has combined sales of more…
Cemex Ventures, Cemex’s corporate venture capital (CVC) and open innovation unit, announced an initial clean-hydrogen deployment at industrial scale with HiiROC (Hull, U.K.) at its Rugby cement plant in the U.K. Hydrogen has emerged as a low-carbon energy source within…
CSIRO (Melbourne), Australia’s national science agency, has successfully trialled its game-changing hydrogen production technology at BlueScope’s Port Kembla Steelworks in New South Wales, demonstrating affordable and renewable hydrogen can be generated at scale to help decarbonize heavy industry. CSIRO’s tubular…
Pilbara Minerals (West Perth, Australia) and POSCO Holdings (Pohang-si, South Korea) recently held a ceremony marking the completion of construction of Train 2 of the joint Lithium Hydroxide Monohydrate Chemical Facility (Facility), which comprises Train 1 and Train 2, was…
Elkem ASA (Oslo, Norway) has secured €1.8 million in funding from the European Union for the groundbreaking Elkem Sicalo (Silicon production with carbon looping) project, which aims to eliminate all CO2 emissions from silicon production. Elkem, SINTEF and NORCE are…
UBE Corp. (Tokyo) announced that it has decided to increase production capacity of high-purity nitric acid at the Ube Chemical Factory in Yamaguchi Prefecture,Japan, in order to meet a further increase in demand in the future. The new equipment construction…
Givaudan (Zurich, Switzerland) announced the inauguration of its newly expanded production facility at the Pedro Escobedo site in Mexico. The investment in the new extension underscores Givaudan’s commitment to enhancing its encapsulation technologies and meeting the growing demands of its…
Topsoe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark) and Aramco (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) have signed a joint development agreement (JDA) to produce low-carbon hydrogen, also referred to as blue hydrogen, using Topsoe’s ground-breaking eREACT technology in Aramco’s Shaybah NGL facility. The JDA underlines the…