Borealis Group AG (Vienna, Austria) has decided to start a process divesting its nitrogen business unit including fertilizer, technical nitrogen and melamine products. Such a divestment would be subject to information and consultation requirements with employee representatives as may be…
Air Liquide China will build new production facilities in Mianyang City (100 km Northwest of Chengdu), Sichuan Province and Chongqing City. These will supply BOE, the world’s leading company in flat-panel displays and an IoT company, in the context of…
Linde plc (Guildford, U.K.) announced today it has partnered with Hyosung Corporation (Hyosung), one of South Korea's largest industrial conglomerates, to build, own and operate extensive new liquid hydrogen infrastructure in South Korea. This robust hydrogen network will support the…
Industrial services provider Bilfinger SE (Mannheim, Germany) and recycling tech company Umincorp have signed a letter of intent for a long-term EPC (engineering, procurement and construction) partnership. The aim is to jointly realize several plastic recycling facilities based on Umincorp’s…
Versalis S.p.A. (San Donato Milanese), the chemical company of Italian energy major Eni, has licensed to Enter Engineering Pte. Ltd. a Low-Density Polyethylene/Ethyl Vinyl Acetate (LDPE/EVA) swing unit to be built as part of a new Gas-to-Chemical Complex based on…
Lotte Chemical Corp. (Seoul, South Korea) expanded the production line for EOA (Ethylene Oxide Adduct), a specialty material for architecture, within its Yeosu Factory. EOA, produced based on ethylene, is an ingredient for concrete water-reducing agent that is used for…
thyssenkrupp Steel has successfully completed the first phase of hydrogen tests on “Blast Furnace 9” in Duisburg, Germany. In recent months, several tests on one of the 28 tuyères of this blast furnace could be conducted, while complying with corona…
Emerson (St. Louis, Mo.), a global technology and industrial software leader, announced Chief Executive Officer David N. Farr will retire on Feb. 5. Lal Karsanbhai, who has served as executive president of the company’s Automation Solutions business since 2018, will…
Chevron Lummus Global (CLG), a joint venture between Chevron U.S.A. Inc. and Lummus Technology, announced that it has been awarded a technology contract by Numaligarh Refinery Limited (NRL) for their refinery expansion project in Numaligah, Golaghat, Assam, India. CLG's scope…
Veolia Water Technologies (Saint-Maurice, France), a subsidiary of the Veolia group, has invested €20 million in the development and construction of a new regeneration and recycling service center with mobile water-treatment technologies and assets in Heinsberg (near Düsseldorf), Germany. The…