Anaven, a 50-50 joint venture (JV) of Nouryon (Amsterdam, the Netherlands) and Atul Ltd. (Valsad, India), has received environmental clearance from the Indian authorities for the production of 32,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr) of monochloroacetic acid (MCA) at its…
Johnson Matthey plc (JM; London, U.K.) is expanding its fuel cell operations into China with a £7.5-million facility to manufacture critical components for customers in the region. The facility is now complete, with commissioning now in progress. JM expects the…
Henkel AG & Co. KGaA (Düsseldorf, Germany) and Carbon have announced a partnership agreement to collaborate for Loctite branded formulations validated for use with Carbon’s additive manufacturing process. As part of the collaboration the new Loctite 3D IND405 Clear material…
Frames Group B.V. (Alphen aan den Rijn, the Netherlands) has supplied a 25-kW hydrogen electrolyzer to Plug Power, a leading provider of clean hydrogen and zero-emission fuel cell solutions. Working in collaboration with Plug Power, the Frames Electrolyzer design has…
NOVA Chemicals Corp. (Calgary, Alberta, Canada) announced that it has agreed to sell its expandable styrenics business to a subsidiary of Alpek S.A.B. de C.V. (San Pedro Garza Garcia, Mexico). The parties expect to close the transaction in the fourth…
At Wanhua Yantai Industrial Park, in the Shandong province of China, SUEZ (Paris, France) will provide Wanhua Group, a global chemical company, with integrated wastewater treatment units and a full-process suite for the tertiary treatment of concentrated wastewater. The process…
Nippon Shokubai Ltd. (Osaka, Japan) has developed a novel superabsorbent polymer (SAP) with super-fast-drying absorption property, which could not be achieved in the past. Currently, the company is building a 15,000 ton/y plant at its Himeji Plant, and expects to…
Honeywell has acquired assets from privately held Ballard Unmanned Systems, a wholly owned subsidiary of Southborough, Mass.-based Ballard Power Systems Inc. Ballard Unmanned Systems designs and produces industry-leading, stored-hydrogen proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel-cell systems that power unmanned aerial systems…
Thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions S.A.S. (Aix en Provence, France) was awarded a contract by Secil Group, a major Portuguese cement producer and provider of construction materials, for the modernization project of Secil’s Outão cement plant, one of the 3 cement plants…
Enapter, the leader in breakthrough Anion Exchange Membrane (AEM) electrolysis technology, has announced plans to build its first mass-production facility in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The ‘Enapter Campus’ will be built in the climate community of Saerbeck, including both a production…