INOX Air Products (INOXAP), one of India’s leading manufacturers of industrial and medical gases, has successfully commissioned an Ultra-High Purity (UHP) Liquid Oxygen plant at Hosur, Tamil Nadu. The commissioning marks a significant milestone in strengthening India’s advanced manufacturing ecosystem,…
NH3 Clean Energy Ltd. (West Perth, Australia) has selected Linde Engineering (Pullach, Germany) to deliver Front End Engineering and Design (FEED) for its planned WAH2 clean ammonia project and explore with NH3 Clean Energy potential future models for the execution…
The following is a list of recently published, first-edition books that may be relevant to professionals working in the chemical process industries (CPI). Fluidization Processes: Design and Operation. By Jia Wei Chew and Ray Cocco, Wiley-VCH Publishing, March 2026, 688…
Steel manufacturer Outokumpu (Helsinki, Finland) announced that its Kemi mine, together with the EU-funded Lapland Mining Hub project and Digipolis in Kemi, is launching a data-driven circular economy ecosystem that aims to transform the mine's side streams from waste into…
Gevo, Inc. (Englewood, Colo.) announced that it is developing plans for a potential expansion at the site of its Gevo North Dakota facility (GND) in Richardton, North Dakota by adding a second ethanol production facility with targeted production capacity of…
Utilizing waste plastics as feedstocks in circular processes requires a systems-based approach. Presented here are the challenges that must be overcome to make circular hydrocarbons investable, scalable and repeatable For more than a decade, the chemical process industries (CPI) has…
A new demonstration facility in northern Iceland will integrate geothermal energy with a solid-oxide electrolyzer cell (SOEC) to produce green hydrogen, representing a key step toward lower-cost sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). This Thermal Hybrid Production System, developed by Syntholene Energy…
Extracting lithium from currently underutilized brines, such as geothermal and oilfield brines, will be necessary to meet the growing demand for lithium in energy-storage applications in the future. Technical hurdles for extracting lithium from these sources include the relatively low…
Olefin epoxidation is an important reaction for making a range of industrial intermediates in processes for epoxy coatings, polyurethanes, polyester textiles, surfactants, specialty chemicals, pharmaceuticals and others. Conventional olefin epoxidation involves organo-peroxides or organo-halogen oxidants, which present safety and environmental…
Biocompatible materials are designed and engineered to be introduced into the human body, either temporarily or permanently, as part of a medical device, to bring about therapeutic medical benefits. Biocompatible materials include various types of metals, ceramics, polymers and composite…