Lummus Technology (Houston) and Chevron Lummus Global (CLG) announced multiple technology contracts from North Huajin Refining and Petrochemical Co., Ltd. for a grassroots refinery and petrochemical complex in Liaoning Province, China. The complex will include one of the largest vacuum…
ALPLA Group (Hard, Austria) has acquired South African packaging manufacturer Verigreen Packaging, which is based in Durban. The company specializes in bottles and canisters for lubricants. such as engine oils. “This acquisition is the perfect fit for our strategy,” explains…
The Center for Hydrogen Safety (CHS) — a technical community within the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) and a global organization leading the safe advancement of hydrogen as the next-generation fuel — has announced a partnership with energy giant…
Linden Cogeneration (Linden, N.J.) and Phillips 66 (Houston) have reached an agreement for Linden Cogen to take hydrogen-containing fuel gas produced at the Bayway Refinery, and blend it with natural gas used to fuel the 172MW F-class Linden Cogen unit…
On behalf of Aker BioMarine (Oslo, Norway), GEA Group AG (Düsseldorf, Germany) has been contracted to design and deliver the world’s first pilot plant for hydrolyzing krill protein. The client is a biotechnology company based in Norway that fishes for…
Johnson Matthey plc (London, U.K.) announced its acquisition of the assets and intellectual property of Oxis Energy Limited, based near Oxford, UK. Oxis Energy was a lithium-sulfur battery developer with assets which can be adapted for the manufacture of components…
Haltermann Carless (Frankfurt, Germany), a company of the HCS Group GmbH, and a leading supplier of high-value hydrocarbon solutions, will become the world's largest producer of Cyclopentane and Cyclopentane blends following the completion of its new hydrogenation plant at the…
Toxicology testing The world’s first toxicology-testing strategy without animal testing has been approved by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD; Paris, France; www.oecd.org). The testing strategy consists of three so-called alternative methods. They can be used to predict…
Next year, construction will begin on an industrial-scale pilot plant to further develop a new process that decomposes methane into H2 and carbon. The process uses a thermo-catalytic decomposition (TCD) technology developed by Hycamite TCD Technologies Oy (Kokkola, Finland; www.hycamite.com).…
A family of oxidation catalysts known as TAML has been revamped to increase activity by several orders of magnitude, even at very dilute catalyst concentrations. Developed by Sudoc (Cambridge, Mass.; www.sudoc.com), these peroxidase-mimicking catalysts present a more environmentally sustainable option…