Linde plc (Guildford, U.K.) has signed a long-term agreement with BorsodChem Zrt., the Hungarian chemical company and member of the Wanhua Chemical Group, for the supply of nitrogen, oxygen and compressed air to its chemical complex in Kazincbarcika. Linde will…
INVISTA’s (Wichita, Kan.) technology and licensing group, Invista Performance Technologies (IPT), and China Petrochemical International Co., Ltd. (Sinopec Yizheng) have reached an agreement for licensing of INVISTA’s industry leading PTA P8++ technology for Sinopec Yizheng’s third PTA line. This plant…
Air Liquide (Paris) and BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) have signed a contract in South Korea’s Yeosu National Industrial Complex to extend the term of their existing agreements over the long term. Within this context, Air Liquide leveraged the start-up in…
Nuberg EPC (New Delhi, India) has been awarded the prestigious 500 ton/d sulfuric acid plant project on EPC & LSTK basis in Egypt. The project, which was awarded during the pandemic, is owned by Sprea Misr, a leading chemicals and…
Johnson Matthey plc (JM; Mondon) has taken the next major step in its plans to commercialize technologies to enable production of zero carbon ‘green’ hydrogen, announcing new manufacturing capacity for the production of catalyst coated membranes. This capacity is co-located…
OMV AG (Vienna, Austria) is expanding and modernizing its cracker units and petrochemical cold section at its Burghausen Refinery in Germany. The measures aim to increase the site’s ethylene and propylene production capacity. Following the planned turnaround of the refinery,…
Air Liquide (Paris, France) announced a 40% stake acquisition in the capital of the French company H2V Normandy, a subsidiary of H2V Product, which aims to build a large-scale electrolyzer complex of up to 200 MW for the production of…
MAN Energy Solutions (Augsburg, Germany) has announced its acquisition of almost 99% of the shares in H-TEC SYSTEMS, a manufacturer of PEM electrolyzers based in Augsburg, Germany. Subject to approval by the competition authorities, MAN Energy Solutions has acquired the…
Inovyn (London, U.K.) has been selected by Koyuncu Group to supply chlor alkali technology as part of a €16 million investment at a new production facility in Konya province, Turkey. Inovyn will provide BICHLOR bipolar electrolyzers for a new 33,000-m2…
Showa Denko K.K. (SDK; Tokyo) announced that its consolidated subsidiary Showa Denko HD Yamagata K.K. (SHDY) will increase the capacity of production facilities to produce aluminum platters to be used as hard disk media (HD media). SDK has also decided…