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Veolia and Suez approve agreement to combine

Veolia Environnement SA and Suez (Both Paris, France) announced that they have signed a Combination Agreement, confirming the terms of the agreement in principle to merge concluded on 11 April, following approval by their respective Boards of Directors. This agreement:…

Arkema’s Bostik business acquires Texas-based adhesives manufacturer

Arkema (Colombes, France) announced that its Bostik business will expand its offerings in high performance adhesives in the United States with the planned acquisition of Edge Adhesives Texas, a complementary asset in hot-melt adhesives and pressure sensitive adhesive tapes for…

Nano One enters co-development agreement with niobium producer CBBM

Nano One Materials Corp. (Vancouver, B.C., Canada) has entered into an advanced lithium-ion battery cathode materials coating development agreement with CBMM, a global leader in the production and commercialization of niobium products and technologies. The objective of the agreement is…

Haldor Topsoe technology selected for Seaboard Energy renewable-fuels plant in Kansas

Seaboard Energy has chosen Haldor Topsoe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark) HydroFlex renewable fuel technology to produce clean renewable diesel from tallow and soybean oil. The 6,500 barrels-per-day renewable diesel unit is currently under construction at Seaboard Energy’s site in Hugoton, Kansas,…

PPG completes $13-million expansion of Jiading coatings plant

PPG (Pittsburgh, Pa.) announced the completion of a $13 million investment (approximately RMB 84 million) in its Jiading, China paint and coatings facility, including eight new powder coating production lines and an expanded Powder Coatings Technology Center that will further…

Worley wins FEED contract for Liquid Wind eMethanol facility

Liquid Wind (Gothenburg, Sweden) has announced that Worley (North Sydney, Australia)  will provide front-end engineering design (FEED) services for the eMethanol facility which will be constructed in Örnsköldsvik, on the north-east coast of Sweden. They will support the Liquid Wind Consortium to…

Eramet confirms successful lithium extraction from geothermal brine in France

Eramet Group (Paris, France), in partnership with Électricité de Strasbourg (ÉS), has succeeded in extracting lithium from geothermal brine during pilot-scale tests conducted early 2021 at the Rittershoffen geothermal power plant (northern Alsace, France), which has been operated by ÉS…

Everfuel to install 300-MW electrolyzer for green-H2 production at Denmark’s Fredericia refinery

Everfuel A/S (Herning, Denmark) has announced plans for the HySynergy Phase II project, including development of a 300-MW electrolyzer and Power-to-X (PtX) facility adjacent to the Fredericia petroleum refinery located in Fredericia, Denmark . The HySynergy Phase II project involves…

BASF to expand PGM refining and recycling capacities in South Carolina

BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) announced the expansion of its Seneca, South Carolina, Platinum Group Metals (PGM) refining facility. The company will invest double-digit millions in capital improvements to increase refining capacity to recycle precious metals from spent catalysts such as…

Nouryon begins engineering phase for Wisconsin expandable microspheres plant

Nouryon (Amsterdam, the Netherlands) has begun the engineering phase at its Expancel expandable microspheres plant in Wisconsin, moving one step closer to better serving its specialty additives customers in North America. Construction on the plant is expected to begin at…