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Air Products to invest $900 million for ultra-high-purity gases supply in Taiwan

Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.) announced that Air Products San Fu Co. Ltd has been selected by one of the world’s largest semiconductor manufacturers to supply industrial gases to the customer’s new semiconductor manufacturing facility in Kaohsiung, Southern Taiwan. Air…

Air Liquide to build new ASU for EZZ Steel in Egypt

Air Liquide SA (Paris) and EZZ Steel (Cairo, Egypt), one of the leading steel producers in the Middle East and Africa, have signed a new longterm agreement for the supply of industrial gases to EZZ’s new plant in Ain Sokhna,…

SAF Production Expands for a Low-Carbon Future

To lower their climate impact, petroleum refiners are increasingly assessing greenhouse-gas-emission intensities as they consider processing lower-carbon feedstocks. One area of particular activity is sustainable aviation fuels (SAF), where demand growth is accelerating While the oil-and-gas industry has been on…

Facts At Your Fingertips: Physical Gas-Separation Methods

Industrial gases are critical for a wide range of applications throughout the chemical process industries (CPI). Many of these gases must be separated from others, such as nitrogen from air, or hydrogen from natural gas using physical gas-separation techniques that…

A new burner slashes NOx emissions from iron-ore pelletizing plants

Before being fed to the blast furnace, iron ore is first converted into pellets by, for example, a traveling-grate (TG) pelletizing plant. In this plant, so-called green pellets are conveyed through a furnace that heats the pellets to high temperatures…

Commercial debut for a process that makes ‘green’ pig iron

Last month, Vale S.A. (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; www.vale.com) began construction on the first commercial plant to use its Tecnored process, which produces pig iron with biomass instead of metallurgical coal (coke). Located in Marabá, in the southeast of Pará,…

Cabot to build new production line for aqueous pigment dispersions

Cabot Corp. (Boston, Ma.) announced the expansion of its Inkjet manufacturing facility in Haverhill, Massachusetts with the addition of a new production line. The expansion will increase the company’s global capacity for color aqueous pigment dispersions and is part of…

Saint-Gobain acquires ceramics manufacturer Monofrax

Saint-Gobain Ceramics announcds the acquisition of Monofrax LLC from the German fund Callista. Located in Falconer, New York , Monofrax offers a wide range of fused cast refractories in various product chemistries. These materials are successfully used for glass melting, steel reheat, electrolytic…

Covestro begins work on TPU films capacity expansion

Covestro AG (Leverkusen, Germany) is expanding its production capacities for thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) Films in the Platilon range, as well as the associated infrastructure and logistics. To this end, the company is investing a low double-digit million euro amount in…

Linde to increase U.S. helium supply with new processing plant in Texas

Linde plc (Woking, U.K.) announced it has signed a new long-term helium off-take agreement to recover the helium contained in Freeport LNG's production site in Texas. Linde will also construct a new helium processing plant in Freeport to purify and…