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Sika opens new production plant in eastern India

Sika AG (Baar, Switzerland) is opening a new plant in Kharagpur, eastern India, and continues to expand production capacity in the fast-growing Indian market. The plant will manufacture mortar products, concrete admixtures, and shotcrete accelerators for customers in the West…

Engie and Posco leading consortium to develop green-ammonia project in Oman

As part of the "Hydrom Phase A Round 1" call for projects, the consortium led by Engie S.A. (La Défense, Courbevoie, France) and POSCO (Pohang-si, South Korea) was awarded land block (Z1-02) by Hydrom, the orchestrator and master planner of…

Aramco and TotalEnergies announce EPC contracts for $11-billion Amiral petrochemicals facility

The Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Aramco; Dhahran) and TotalEnergies SE (Paris) awarded Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) contracts for the $11 billion Amiral complex, a future world scale petrochemicals facility expansion at the SATORP refinery in the Kingdom of Saudi…

World’s largest propane dehydrogenation unit to be built in Turkey using Honeywell technology

Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.) announced that SASA Polyester Sanayi A.Ş. will build the world’s largest Propane Dehydrogenation (PDH) unit in Yumurtalık, Türkiye using the latest generation of Honeywell Oleflex technology. The facility will have the capacity to produce 1-million-tons…

Nippon Shokubai expands U.S. operations, including increased production capacity of emulsion resins

Nippon Shokubai America Industries, Inc. (NAII), the U.S. subsidiary of NIPPON SHOKUBAI CO., LTD., has launched marketing and capital investment initiatives to expand the Nippon Shokubai Group’s Solutions Business, a division that leverages the company’s research and development (R&D) capabilities…

Busch Vakuumteknik AB acquires VakuumExperten i Sverige AB

Busch Vakuumteknik AB, a business of The Busch Group, has acquired the Gothenburg-based service company VakuumExperten i Sverige AB, which specializes in preventive and remedial maintenance work in vacuum technology. “The acquisition of VakuumExperten is in line with our promise…

BASF opens Biodegradation and Microplastics Center of Excellence in North America

BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) has officially opened its Biodegradation and Microplastics Center of Excellence at its site in Wyandotte, Michigan to help customers across North America achieve their circularity and sustainability goals. The center’s targets include providing holistic, tailored solutions…

Kraton expands manufacturing capabilities for styrenic block copolymers in France

Kraton Corp. (Houston) announced the expansion of its manufacturing capabilities in Berre, France, to produce up to 100% ISCC PLUS certified renewable Styrenic Block Copolymers (SBC) as part of the CirKular+ ReNew Series via mass balance approach. CirKular+ ReNew Series…

Umicore inaugurates large-scale prototyping center for solid-state battery materials

Umicore N.V. (Brussels, Belgium) has inaugurated one of the world‘s largest and most advanced solid-state battery material prototyping facilities in Olen, Belgium, which will expand and accelerate its innovation and technology development after having acquired strong research expertise with the…

GEA supplies heat pumps for U.K. project using mine water for district heating

GEA Group (Düsseldorf, Germany) has supplied heat pumps for district heating in Gateshead – the largest mine water project in the U.K. "Gateshead Mine Water Scheme" is currently the largest project in the UK for heat recovery from mine water.…