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Air Water acquires new gas plant at Tata Steel plant in eastern India

Air Water Inc. (Osaka, Japan) announced that its wholly owned subsidiary Air Water India Pvt. Ltd., has acquired a large-scale gas plant currently under construction at Tata Steel’s Jamshedpur plant in Jharkhand, Eastern India, and has entered into a 20-year…

Veolia awarded operation and maintenance contract for Chile’s first multipurpose desalination plant

Veolia SE (Paris) was awarded the Operation and Maintenance (O&M) contract for the Aguas Pacífico multipurpose desalination plant in Valparaíso, the first in Chile (1,000 L/s), ahead of five leading national and international companies that were part of the tender.…

Linde starts up air separation unit in eastern Tennessee

Linde plc (Dublin, Ireland) announced it has started up the supply of industrial gases to serve customers in the Knoxville, Chattanooga and Nashville areas of eastern Tennessee, as well as northern Alabama and Georgia. The new air separation unit (ASU)…

Malaysia’s first melamine plant nears start of operation

Technip Energies (Paris)  has announced that Malaysia’s first melamine plant, developed for Petronas Chemicals Group Berhad (PCG; Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) – received its ‘Ready For Start Up’ (RFSU) certificate. The plant at Kedah has a capacity of 60,000 metric tons…

ORLEN offers to acquire entire shareholding of Grupa Azoty Polyolefins

ORLEN S.A. (Płock, Poland) announced that on it has made a non-binding offer to Grupa Azoty SA (Tarnów, Poland) to buy all shares of Grupa Azoty Polyolefins S.A. (GAP). ORLEN holds currently 17.3% of GAP’s shares. The Offer assumes the…

ACG to invest $200 million to establish empty-capsule manufacturing in U.S.

ACG (Mubai, India; www.acg-world.com), the world’s most integrated provider of solid-dosage solutions, today announced a $200 million phased investment to establish its first empty-capsule manufacturing operations in the U.S. The initial $100 million will fund a state-of-the-art hard-shell capsule facility…

BASF inaugurates new neopentyl glycol plant at Verbund site in China

BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) announced that its Intermediates division has inaugurated a new neopentyl glycol (NPG) plant at the Verbund site in Zhanjiang, China. Following the start-up of the new plant with a production capacity of 80,000 metric tons per…

E3 and Axens enter partnership supporting lithium supply

E3 Lithium Ltd. (Calgary, Alta., Canada), a leader in Canadian lithium development, and Axens (Rueil-Malmaison, France) have signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding (the MOU) that contemplates both the sale of lithium carbonate by E3 Lithium to Axens (the Offtake)…

Saint-Gobain doubles manufacturing capacity at gypsum plant in Florida

Saint-Gobain S.A. (Courbevoie, France), through its building product subsidiary CertainTeed Interior Products Group, held a ribbon cutting ceremony to mark completion of major expansion activities at its CertainTeed Gypsum manufacturing facility in Palatka, Florida. First announced in 2023, the project…

Lummus and KMG to establish technology hub in Kazakhstan

Lummus Technology (Houston) and KazMunayGas (KMG) announced the companies have signed a preliminary agreement to establish a digital center of excellence in Atyrau, Kazakhstan. The center will serve as a hub for technology transfer and workforce development, providing advanced training,…