Chemical Engineering
Elessent Clean Technologies commissions second SOx scrubber at TotalEnergies’ Antwerp refinery
Elessent Clean Technologies (St. Louis, Missouri) has announced the successful commissioning of its BELCO® integrated gas cleaning system at the TotalEnergies SE (Antwerp, Belgium) refinery. The new SOx scrubber entered operation on December 8 and is already significantly reducing sulfur…
Sumitomo Bakelite to expand semiconductor encapsulation materials production in China
Sumitomo Bakelite Co., Ltd. (Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo, Japan) will expand production capacity for semiconductor encapsulation materials at Sumitomo Bakelite (Suzhou) Co., Ltd. by adding new production lines for epoxy-molding compounds for semiconductor encapsulation to meet the growing demand for semiconductors in…
Nova Minerals completes engineering and design for antimony processing plant in Alaska
Nova Minerals Corp (Caulfield, Victoria, Australia) has announced the completion of engineering and design for its Estelle antimony pilot processing plant in Alaska. Engineering and design covers the Whiskey Bravo front-end processing site, Port MacKenzie beneficiation plant, Port MacKenzie refinery,…
Itochu and Daikin enter alliance for horizontal recycling of air conditioners
ITOCHU Corp. (Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan) announced that it has signed a comprehensive business alliance agreement with Daikin Industries, Ltd. (Kita-ku, Osaka, Japan). The agreement was signed under the framework of Japan's Act Concerning Sophistication of Recycling Business, etc. to Promote…
Saint-Gobain acquires waterproofing specialist Xypex Chemical
Saint-Gobain S.A. (Courbevoie, France) has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Xypex Chemical Corp. (Richmond, B.C., Canada), a global leader in crystalline waterproofing admixtures and coatings. Xypex provides its differentiated solutions in more than 100 countries and employs approximately…
Chevron enters licensing agreement with ZL Chemicals for advanced chemical-surfactant technology
Chevron Technical Center, a division of Chevron Corp. (Houston, Tex.) and ZL Chemicals Ltd. (Calgary, Canada), announced a technology licensing agreement under which ZL may commercialize Chevron-developed chemical-surfactant technology. ZL plans to offer products and services utilizing the licensed technology…
Air Liquide to build new partial oxidation unit at Oxea’s Bay City site
Air Liquide S.A. (Paris, France) has reached a major milestone in its long-standing relationship with Oxea GmbH (Monheim am Rhein, Germany) by expanding its production capabilities at Oxea's site in Bay City, Texas. This strategic $200-million investment involves the construction…
Fluor selected by Aramco as program management consultancy under long-term agreement
Fluor Corp. (Irving, Texas) has been selected by Aramco (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) as a Program Management Consultancy (PMC) contractor under a Long-Term Agreement (LTA) to support its global capital projects portfolio. The LTA will allow efficient deployment of Fluor's global…
Topsoe partners with J Westling & Co. on Nebraska blue ammonia fertilizer project
Topsoe (Kongens Lyngby, Denmark), a leading global provider of advanced technology and solutions for the energy transition, has signed an agreement with J Westling & Co (JWC) (Elkhorn, Nebraska), a Nebraska-based company developing blue ammonia solutions, also referred to as low carbon ammonia, to support…
Syensqo breaks ground on manufacturing expansion in Maryland
Syensqo S.A. (Brussels, Belgium) has broken ground on a manufacturing expansion at its Havre de Grace, Md., site, adding over 30% capacity through a multi-million-dollar investment in the company’s U.S. manufacturing footprint. The expansion further strengthens Syensqo's global manufacturing network…