Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany) and Siemens Energy commissioned a pilot plant sponsored by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) that uses carbon dioxide and water to produce chemicals. The necessary energy is supplied by electricity from…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) is to invest €16 million into Pyrum Innovations AG, a technology company specialized in the pyrolysis of waste tires, headquartered in Dillingen/Saar, Germany. With the investment, BASF will support the expansion of Pyrum’s pyrolysis plant in…
Yokogawa Electric Corp. (Tokyo, Japan) revealed the results of a global end-user survey on the outlook for industrial autonomy, which shows that 64% of respondents from companies in process industries are anticipating fully autonomous operations by 2030. The survey provides…
Svante, Inc. (Burnaby, B.C., Canada;) has selected Kiewit Engineering Group Inc. to provide engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) services for two DOE funded carbon capture projects. On September 1, the United States Department of Energy’s National Energy Laboratory Technology (DOE-NETL)…
Thermo Fisher Scientific (Waltham, Mass.) announced it is investing more than $140 million to further expand its laboratory plastics consumables production to support significant global demand for COVID-19 testing, as well as development and manufacturing of therapies and vaccines. "Early…
ALPLA Group (Hard, Austria) is building a plant in Mexico for recycling high-density polyethylene (HDPE). It is planned to produce 15,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr) of post-consumer recycled material. ALPLA has acquired a property in Toluca, capital city of…
PPG (Pittsburgh, Pa.) announced it has received funding from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for research into the use of two versatile, high-output processes in the production of lithium-ion battery (LIB) electrodes. The three-year, $2.2 million project – one…
Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Limited (MRPL), a leading Indian Refining company based in Mangalore, is planning to install a second generation (2G) ethanol facility in the State of Karnataka, India. MRPL has awarded LanzaTech (Skokie, Ill.) the contract to commence…
INEOS Styrolution (Frankfurt, Germany) and Trinseo (Berwyn, Pa.) are advancing plans to build the first-of-its-kind polystyrene recycling plant based on depolymerization in Wingles in the north of France. The planned full commercial-scale recycling facility will be capable of processing up…
The Polyplastics Group (Tokyo) has announced plans to construct a cyclic olefin copolymer (COC) production facility in Leuna, Germany to meet the growing global demand for its Topas COC polymers. The new plant, to be operated by local Polyplastics subsidiary…