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Circularix starts up commercial recycling facility in Florida

Circularix (Los Angeles, Calif.; www.circularix.com), a leading U.S.-based producer of food-grade recycled PET (rPET resin), today announced the successful completion and commercial start-up of its new recycling facility in Ocala, Fla. The site complements Circularix's flagship facility in Hatfield, Pa. and significantly expands…

Plastic Energy and SABIC announce production of first batch of TACOIL from waste plastic

Plastic Energy (London, U.K.; www.plasticenergy.com), a global leader in chemical recycling, has announced the production of its first batch of TACOIL™ at its joint venture plant with SABIC (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; www.sabic.com) in Geleen, the Netherlands. This marks a key…

Technip Energies awarded FEED contracts for LNG project in Indonesia

Technip Energies (Paris, France; www.ten.com), in consortium with JGC, has been awarded two significant front-end engineering design (FEED) contracts for INPEX Abadi LNG project, a landmark development for Indonesia’s energy landscape located in the Masela Block.  The first contract is…

TotalEnergies, Equinor and Shell announce first CO2 transported from cement manufacturing area to subsea storage

TotalEnergies (Paris, France; www.totalenergies.com) and its partners, Equinor (Stavanger, Norway; www.equinor.com) and Shell (London, U.K.; www.shell.com), announce that the first CO2 volumes were successfully transported by vessel from Heidelberg Materials’ cement factory in Brevik, Norway to Northern Lights’ facilities in Øygarden.…

CB&I awarded contract for tanks at Thacker Pass lithium site

CB&I (The Woodlands, Tex.; www.cbi.com) recently announced it has been awarded a large ($50-$100 million) contract by Lithium Nevada LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Lithium Americas Corp. (Vancouver, B.C.; www.lithiumamericas.com), to execute the engineering, procurement, fabrication, and construction (EPFC)…

Thermo Fisher Scientific opens manufacturing center of excellence in North Carolina

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (Waltham, Mass.; www.thermofisher.com) the world leader in serving science, recently announced the grand opening of its innovative manufacturing center of excellence facility in Mebane, N.C. The new 375,000-square-foot carbon-neutral site will be capable of producing at…

Wevo Chemie establishes company in India

Wevo Chemie GmbH (Ostfildern-Kemnat, Germany; www.wevo-chemie.com) has founded Wevo Chemical India Private Limited, headquartered in Gurugram, south-west of New Delhi. With the new company, Wevo is strenghtening its presence in India’s high-growth market for polyurethane solutions. A local sales team…

Entegris plans $700 million investment in U.S., including Illinois technology center

  Entegris, Inc. (Billerica, Mass.; www.entegris.com) announced $700 million in domestic R&D spending over the next several years to accelerate semiconductor innovation. This investment in R&D projects and related capital expenditures will span its two divisions, Materials Solutions and Advanced…

Asahi Kasei to double production for photosensitive polyimide for semiconductor industry

Diversified global manufacturer Asahi Kasei (Tokyo, Japan; www.asahi-kasei.com) will increase PIMEL™ photosensitive polyimide (PSPI) production capacity at its Fuji City facility in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. PSPI is a key material for the global electronics industry, mainly used for buffer coatings…

Velocys and Sekisui Chemical sign MoU for e-SAF production technology

Sekisui Chemical Co. Ltd. (Osaka City, Japan; www.sekisuichemical.com) and Velocys Inc. (Houston, Tex.; www.velocys.com) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) establishing a strategic partnership to advance production technology for electro-Sustainable Aviation Fuel (e-SAF), a CO2-derived synthetic fuel. This partnership…