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 (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 (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 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 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, 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…
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…
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…
A recent Wall Street Journal article [1] described numerous job postings in which employers bluntly describe that they expect employees to hustle and work long hours. The article quotes, for example, a listing that says “If you’re looking for work-life…
Plant Watch Wacker commissions new ultra-pure polysilicon plant in Burghausen, Germany July 17, 2025 — Wacker Chemie AG (Munich, Germany; www.wacker.com) commissioned its new production line for the manufacture of ultra-pure semiconductor-grade polysilicon at its Burghausen production site in Germany.…