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Avalon Advanced Materials and Metso to partner on lithium processing facility in Ontario

 Avalon Advanced Materials Inc.  has entered into an expanded partnership agreement with Metso Corp. (Espoo, Finland) to advance the construction of a full-service lithium processing facility in Thunder Bay, Ontario. The parties have also agreed to co-develop a Technology &…

Röhm commissions PMMA polymerization plant in Shanghai

Röhm (Darmstadt, Germany) announced that it has commissioned a production expansion for polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) in Shanghai. In a ceremony attended by employees, partners and political representatives, Hans-Peter Hauck, COO of Röhm, officially commissioned the plant. “The expansion of our…

Sulzer joins research consortium focused on molten-salt energy storage

Sulzer Flow Equipment and expertise has been selected by an industrial research consortium for a pilot plant intended to validate the commercial viability of storing renewable energy in molten hydroxide salts. Situated in Esbjerg, Denmark, the Molten Salts Storage (MOSS)…

Fluor completes work on Bayer’s new manufacturing facility in California

Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.) announced that it has completed construction of Bayer’s first global Cell Therapy Launch Facility in Berkeley, California. “Fluor’s innovative plant layout and modularized construction approach allowed this facility to be built safely and with capital efficiency,”…

Dept. of Energy Announces Funding for Seven Regional Clean Hydrogen Hubs

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced $7 billion to launch seven Regional Clean Hydrogen Hubs (H2Hubs) across the nation and accelerate the commercial-scale deployment of low-cost, clean hydrogen — a valuable energy product that can be produced with…

Proman and Mitsubishi propose world-scale clean ammonia plant in Louisiana

Proman (Wollerau, Switzerland) has signed an MoU with Mitsubishi Corp. (Tokyo) to explore building a world-scale ultra low-carbon ammonia facility in Lake Charles, Louisiana. The proposed plant would produce approximately 1.2 million tons per year of clean ammonia by incorporating…

Digital Transformation and the Process Industries: A Chemical Engineer’s Perspective

A look back at the history of the digital transformation in the chemical process industries (CPI) can help guide current strategies for leveraging digital tools for the benefit of humans and the planet.  The main story in the chemical process…

EMD Electronics starts up specialty-materials site serving Arizona’s semiconductor-manufacturing hub

EMD Electronics, the Electronics business of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany in the U.S. and Canada, celebrated the grand opening of its newest factory in Chandler, Arizona. The opening of the site is part of the "Level Up" growth program announced…

Umicore progresses plans for battery materials plant in Canada

Umicore N.V. (Brussels, Belgium) is proceeding with the construction of a 35 GWh equivalent battery materials production plant in Loyalist, Ont., to serve the North American market for electric vehicle (EV) batteries. Given the significance of the plant for the…

ABB expands instrumentation manufacturing capacity in Oklahoma

ABB Inc. (Zurich, Switzerland) is strengthening its ability to meet growing demand for instrumentation in the North American market by consolidating instrumentation manufacturing under one roof in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, and expanding the Bartlesville site with a new 12,000-square-foot calibration hall.…