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Quest One and MasTec Clean Energy & Infrastructure to promote green hydrogen economy in North America

Quest One, a subsidiary of MAN Energy Solutions (MAN ES) and MasTec Clean Energy & Infrastructure (CE&I), a major infrastructure construction company, have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for a partnership to accelerate the development and deployment of green…

Sulzer inaugurates biopolymer engineering and scale-up center

Sulzer Ltd. (Winterthur, Switzerland) opened its fourth location in Switzerland. The Innovation Technology Hub (InTecH) in Winterthur Töss will further enhance Sulzer’s research and development capabilities in advanced biopolymer engineering and recycling. With 3,150 m2 of laboratory and research space,…

Chemical Engineering Conversation: Designing Next-Gen Pumps for Molten-Salt Energy Storage

It is often said that “pumps are the workhorses of industry” in that they are used in nearly all processes and must withstand a diverse range of extreme operating conditions, including exposure to corrosive or abrasive chemicals, cryogenic temperatures and…

Veranova to invest $50 million to enhance biomanufacturing plant in Massachusetts

Veranova L.P. (Devens, Mass.), a global leader in the development and manufacturing of specialist and complex active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) for the pharmaceutical and biotech sectors, announced a strategic investment to establish state-of-the-art bioconjugation development and cGMP manufacturing capacity at…

TotalEnergies and Mistral AI join forces to develop AI laboratory for low-carbon energy

TotalEnergies SE (Paris) and the French company Mistral AI are announcing a collaboration to accelerate artificial intelligence (AI) innovation in support of the company’s multi-energy strategy, especially in low-carbon energies. A shared AI innovation lab Under the terms of the…

Kumho Mitsui Chemicals and thyssenkrupp nucera announce startup of chlor-alkali plant in Korea

Kumho Mitsui Chemicals (KMCI) has enhanced its production process of Methylene Diphenyl Diisocyanate (MDI) by utilizing the latest generation e-BiTAC v7 electrolyzer technology from thyssenkrupp nucera. The supplier of world-leading technologies for high-efficiency electrolysis plants designed and supplied a chlor-alkali…

Baker Hughes to acquire safety-equipment manufacturer Continental Disc

Baker Hughes, Inc. (Houston) has agreed to acquire Continental Disc Corp. (CDC), a leading provider of safety-critical pressure management solutions, from investment partnerships managed by Tinicum Incorporated in an all-cash transaction for approximately $540 million. Headquartered in Liberty, Missouri, CDC…

Solvay and Veolia increase recycling capabilities for industrial fluegas treatment residues

Veolia (Paris, France) and Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium), via their subsidiary Resolest, a specialist in the recycling of industrial fluegas treatment residues, inaugurated a new unit increasing capacity of the Rosières-aux-Salines site in Meurthe-et-Moselle (54). In line with the momentum…

Tosoh to construct new chloroprene rubber plant in Japan

Tosoh Corp. (Tokyo) has announced its plan to increase the production capacity of its Skyprene chloroprene rubber (CR). The plan will see the company add a second CR production facility at its Nanyo Complex in Shunan City, Yamaguchi Prefecture to…

Sumitomo Chemical develops new production technology for biomass-based liquid-crystal polymer

Sumitomo Chemical Co. (Tokyo, Japan) has successfully established a mass production technology for liquid crystal polymer (LCP) using a monomer derived from biomass-based materials. As a global leader in the LCP market, the Company will accelerate the development of a…