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Hitachi Chemical begins mass production of 5G-compatible laminate material

Hitachi Chemical Co., Ltd. launched mass production of MCL-HS200, an advanced functional laminate material for printed wiring boards, with low transmission loss and low warpage properties required for semiconductor packaging substrates used in such fields as fifth-generation mobile communications systems…

Metsä Spring and Valmet construct pilot plant for renewable 3D fiber products

Metsä Group’s (Helsinki, Finland) innovation company Metsä Spring and Valmet Oyj (Espoo, Finland) have decided to continue the development collaboration related to 3D fiber products and hence, to invest jointly approximately EUR 20 million in a new R&D project. As…

New Occidental-backed development firm to deploy direct-air carbon capture

Oxy Low Carbon Ventures, LLC, a subsidiary of Occidental, and Rusheen Capital Management, a private equity firm, have formed a development company, 1PointFive, to finance and deploy Carbon Engineering’s large-scale Direct Air Capture (DAC) technology for carbon capture, utilization &…

BP, Aria Energy and Republic Services start up renewable natural-gas project in Tennessee

Republic Services Inc., and energy partners Aria Energy and bp plc (London), announced the startup of a landfill-gas-to-renewable-natural-gas (RNG) project at South Shelby Landfill near Memphis, Tennessee. The project directly supports Republic's commitment to send 50 percent more landfill gas…

Chemetry and Braskem to build ethylene dichloride demonstration plant in Brazil

Chemetry Corp. (Moss Landing, Calif.), and Braskem, the leading producer of thermoplastic resins in the Americas, will construct and operate a Demonstration Plant using Chemetry's eShuttle technology for the production of ethylene dichloride (EDC) in Brazil.   The eShuttle EDC…

Fluor JV achieves final provisional turnover on major Kuwait refining project

Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.) announced that its joint venture (JV) with Daewoo Engineering & Construction and Hyundai Heavy Industries has successfully achieved final provisional turnover of the facilities for Kuwait National Petroleum Company’s (KNPC) Mina Abdullah Package 2 (MAB2) Clean…

Gevo and Praj to commercialize sustainable aviation fuel in India

Gevo, Inc. (Englewood, Colo.) and Praj Industries Ltd. (Pune, India) have signed a binding, definitive Master Framework Agreement (MFA) to collaborate on providing renewable, low carbon, low particulate, Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) and renewable premium gasoline in India and neighboring…

Lummus Technology announces successful startup of bio-ethers unit in Greece

Lummus Technology (Houston, Tex.) announced the successful start-up of its CDTaee unit for Hellenic Petroleum's refinery in Aspropyrgos, Greece. For this start-up, the existing CDTame unit was revamped to the latest generation of CDTaee technology for bio-ethers production. The new…

Veolia agrees to acquire OSIS maintenance business from Suez

Veolia (Paris) has announced the signature of an agreement with the Suez Group to acquire its subsidiary Suez RV OSIS, which specializes in the maintenance of sanitation networks and infrastructure and on-site industrial services (for the most part, industrial maintenance…

Siemens Energy signs green-hydrogen agreement with China Power

Siemens Energy and Beijing Green Hydrogen Technology Development Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of China Power International Development Ltd. (China Power), signed an agreement on providing a hydrogen production system for a hydrogen fueling station. Located in Yanqing District, Beijing, one…