Chemical Engineering
Stora Enso invests in new production line for granulated lignin
Stora Enso Oyj (Helsinki, Finland) is investing EUR 14 million to build a granulation and packing plant for lignin, allowing easier packing and handling of lignin compared to powder and wet form. According to Stora Enso's strategy, lignin is one…
MilliporeSigma invests $47 million to expand two U.S. production facilities
MilliporeSigma (Burlington, Mass.) announced the broadening of its manufacturing footprint with a combined $47 million investment at its production facilities in Danvers, Massachusetts, and Jaffrey, New Hampshire. These sites supply critical products to customers developing lifesaving therapies, including Covid-19 vaccines,…
Lanxess awards global framework contract to Vysus Group
Global engineering and technology consultancy Vysus Group (formerly LR Energy), in partnership with its previous parent company Lloyd’s Register (LR), has secured a global framework agreement with specialty chemicals company Lanxess AG (Cologne, Germany) to drive improvements in maintenance and asset integrity…
Toshiba, ANA, Toyo and Idemitsu Kosan partner on power-to-chemicals strategy
Toshiba Energy Systems & Solutions Corp., Toshiba Corp., Toyo Engineering Corp., Idemitsu Kosan Co., All Nippon Airways Co. (ANA) and Japan CCS Co. have reached an agreement to begin reviewing recycling business models for reuse of CO2 from sources such…
LyondellBasell PP technology selected by Kaijin Blue Sky Energy
LyondellBasell (Rotterdam, the Netherlands) announced that Kaijin Blue Sky Energy (Zhejiang) Co., Ltd., has selected LyondellBasell’s leading polypropylene (PP) technology for a new world-scale facility. The facility will include a 600,000-ton/yr polypropylene plant using LyondellBasell’s Spheripol technology as well as…
Elkem completes specialized silicones facility in Shanghai
Elkem (Oslo, Norway) has completed and opened a new production workshop in Shanghai, China, dedicated to the development and manufacturing of specialized silicones for hybrid and electric vehicles. This move further strengthens Elkem’s position as the largest silicones producer in…
Lanxess expands production capacity for iron-oxide pigments
Lanxess AG (Cologne, Germany) has expanded its capacity for black synthetic iron-oxide pigments at its Krefeld-Uerdingen site by more than 5,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr). “The increased demand from the construction industry, in particular for our unique black pigments…
World’s largest single-train methanol plants to use Johnson Matthey technology
Johnson Matthey (JM; London, U.K.) has secured a multiple licence win for China’s Ningxia Baofeng Energy Group’s latest project to develop five of the largest single-train methanol plants in the world. Located at Baofeng’s Ordos City complex in Inner Mongolia,…
Netzsch invests €50 million in the plant centralization in Waldkraiburg
On 27 November 2020, the shareholders' meeting of the Netzsch Group (Waldkraiburg, Germany) approved the centralization of the facilities in Waldkraiburg. With an investment of €50 million, a new production unit will be built on Geretsrieder Straße, integrating the assembly…
Suez finalizes sale of Recycling & Recovery operations in Sweden
SUEZ (Paris, France) announced it has completed the sale of its Recycling & Recovery operations in Sweden to PreZero, the environmental division of Schwarz Group, in accordance with the announcement of September 21, 2020. The transaction enables a solid future…