Sasol Chemicals, a business unit of Sasol Ltd. (Johannesburg, South Africa),plans to double its use of green steam from a first of its kind biomass cogeneration facility adjacent to its Brunsbüttel, Germany facility. Sasol Chemicals will lease land adjacent to…
LG Chem Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea) and Archer-Daniels-Midland Co. (ADM; Chicago) held a signing ceremony launching two joint ventures for U.S. production of lactic acid and polylactic acid to meet growing demand for a wide variety of plant-based products, including…
Mitsui Chemicals, Inc. (Tokyo) and Teijin Ltd. (Toyko) jointly announced that they will become Japan’s first companies to develop and market biomass-derived bisphenol A (BPA) and polycarbonate (PC) resins, that will support efforts to achieve carbon neutrality by reducing greenhouse…
McDermott International, Inc. (Houston) has been awarded a Pre Front-End Engineering Design (Pre-FEED) contract from Woodside Energy for the proposed H2Perth project located in the Kwinana/Rockingham area in Western Australia. Under the contract scope McDermott will provide pre-FEED services for…
Nel ASA has decided to build a new fully automated production line at Herøya in Norway, doubling its capacity for production of alkaline electrolyzer stacks to approximately 1 GW. “The expansion means that Nel is strengthening its position as a…
Wood plc (Aberdeen, Scotland) has secured a new contract to deliver engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) services for Igneo Technologies’ e-waste metals recovery facility to be built in Savannah, Georgia. A global leader in e-waste processing, Igneo Technologies provides…
The Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Aramco; Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and the SABIC Agri-Nutrients Company (SABIC AN), have obtained the world’s first independent certifications recognizing “blue” hydrogen and ammonia production. The certifications were granted by TÜV Rheinland, a leading independent testing,…
Sasol Chemicals, a business unit of Sasol Ltd. (Johannesburg, South Africa), will deploy innovative, AI-driven technology at its Ethylene Unit at its Lake Charles Chemical Complex in Louisiana to measure and monitor energy usage and emissions to identify opportunities to…
Cepsa Quimica (Madrid, Spain) and Ohmium International (Bangalore, India), a company specialized in the design, manufacture, and deployment of PEM electrolyzers, have announced an agreement to develop highly efficient green hydrogen projects in the Iberian Peninsula. The companies will collaborate to…
Maire Tecnimont S.p.A. (Milan, Italy) announced that its subsidiary NextChem has been awarded a Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) contract by a market leader in plastics and chemicals for an advanced mechanical recycling plant of municipal plastic waste in Europe. The aim of the project…