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Cummins forms JV focused on hydrogen storage

Cummins Inc. (Columbus, Ind.)  announced an agreement to form a joint venture with NPROXX, a leader in hydrogen storage and transportation, for hydrogen storage tanks. The joint venture will continue under the name NPROXX."We are thrilled to combine Cummins’ expertise,…

Braskem completes construction of La Porte polypropylene plant

Braskem America (Philadelphia, Pa) announced the construction completion of its newest, polypropylene production facility located in La Porte, Texas. Braskem's new facility has a designed production capacity of over 450,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr) and has the capability to…

Agilyx and TechnipFMC to collaborate on pathways for polystyrene re-use

Agilyx Corp. (Tigard, Ore.) announced an exclusive collaboration with TechnipFMC to jointly develop a process to purify Agilyx Styrene Oil to high-purity styrene. This collaboration has been the result of over a year of evaluation, and their desire to expand…

Sasol achieves beneficial operations at Lake Charles alcohols unit

Sasol Ltd. (Johannesburg, South Africa) announced that the Guerbet alcohol unit at the Lake Charles Chemicals Project (LCCP) achieved beneficial operations on 19 June 2020. This follows three days after achieving beneficial operations on the Ziegler alcohol unit, bringing the…

Johnson Matthey announces successful commissioning of largest methanol plant in China

Johnson Matthey plc (JM; London) is pleased to announce that China’s Ningxia Baofeng Energy Group has successfully started up the 6,600 metric ton per day (m.t./d) methanol plant at their 600,000-m.t./yr coal-to-olefins (CTO) complex near Yinchuan in Ningxia Province, China…

Grace doubles colloidal silica capacity with new plant in Germany

W. R. Grace & Co. (Columbia, Md.) announced the opening of its new 8,200 square-meter colloidal silica plant at its European flagship manufacturing and R&D center in Worms, Germany. The facility doubles the worldwide production capacity of Ludox, Grace’s leading…

McDermott awarded pre-Feed contract for NET Power project in the U.K.

McDermott International, Inc. (Houston) announced it has been awarded a sizeable Pre Front End Engineering Design (pre-FEED) contract from 8 Rivers Capital for their NET Power UK project with the U.K. Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. The project…

Eleven regional projects to receive funding from E.U.’s Fuel Cell & Hydrogen Joint Undertaking

Europe’s Fuel Cell and Hydrogen (FCH) Joint Undertaking has announced the 11 regional projects that will receive funds for Project Development Assistance (PDA). Project plans include deployment of hydrogen production from wind and solar power and as an industrial by-product.…

New collaboration focuses on biogas-to-hydrogen plants in Australia

ReCarbon, Inc., (Santa Clara, Calif.), the developer of the patented Plasma Carbon Conversion Unit (PCCU), a greenhouse gas utilization technology, announced the execution of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with leading Australian bioenergy developer, Utilitas Group towards building biogas-to-hydrogen plants across…

Fluor awarded maintenance contract by Delamine

Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.) announced that Stork, part of Fluor’s Diversified Services segment, was awarded a 5-year maintenance contract by Delamine B.V, a manufacturer of ethylene amines in the Netherlands. Fluor booked the undisclosed contract value in the second quarter…