Toray Industries, Inc. (Tokyo) announced that it will start demonstrating a sewage reuse system employing its water treatment membranes in Chennai, India. The nation’s swift urbanization has caused water demand to surge, particularly in large cities. Another challenge is that…
Archroma (Basel, Switzerland) announced that the company will be expanding its operations in Martin, South Carolina, to better serve its customers. The expansion will include a $750,000 investment in the facility and equipment at the Allendale County plant and 6…
thyssenkrupp Uhde (Dortmund, Germany) and Genesis Fertilizers Limited Partnership have signed a Pre-FEED (front-end engineering and design) contract to conceptually develop an integrated fertilizer complex to be located at Belle Plaine, Saskatchewan in Canada. The proposed plant will be designed…
JGC Corp. (Yokohama, Japan) was awarded the Front End Engineering Design (FEED) for a green hydrogen and methylcyclohexane (MCH) production plant in Malaysia by ENEOS Corp. and Sumitomo Corp. . ENEOS and Sumitomo, in collaboration with SEDC Energy, a company…
MP Materials (Las Vegas, Nev.) has received a $58.5 million award to advance its construction of America’s first fully-integrated rare earth magnet manufacturing facility. The Section 48C Advanced Energy Project tax credit allocation was issued by the IRS and Treasury…
SLB (Houston) and ChampionX Corp. (The Woodlands, Tex.) announced a definitive agreement for SLB to purchase ChampionX in an all-stock transaction. The agreement was unanimously approved by the ChampionX board of directors. Under the terms of the agreement, ChampionX shareholders…
Next Wave Energy Partners, LP (Houston) a portfolio company of Energy Capital Partners (ECP), announced that its alkylate production facility, known as Project Traveler and located adjacent to the Houston Ship Channel in Pasadena, Texas, has achieved commercial operations. “We…
INEOS Ltd. (London) completed the acquisition of TotalEnergies’ 50% share of Naphtachimie (720,000-ton/yr steam cracker), Appryl (300,000-ton/yr polypropylene business), Gexaro (270,000-ton/yr aromatics business) and 3TC[1] (naphtha storage) announced on July 5th. These businesses have until today been joint ventures between…
Lummus Technology (Houston) announced that SABIC Fujian Petrochemical Co., Ltd.’s grassroots complex in Fujian Province, China, will leverage Lummus’ ethylene and co-monomer technologies. SABIC Fujian Petrochemicals Co., Ltd. is a joint venture between SABIC Industrial Investment Company (wholly owned by…
Resonac Corp. (Tokyo) has decided to increase its capacity to produce materials for high-performance semiconductor chips, which are to be used mainly as CPUs for artificial intelligence (AI), to 3.5 to 5 times of the current level. Resonac will increase…