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AGC to build new plant for ion-exchange membranes in Japan

AGC, Inc. (Tokyo) announced that it will construct a new production facility for FORBLUE S-SERIES, a fluorinated ion-exchange membranes suitable for producing green hydrogen at its Kitakyushu Site (Tobata-ku, Kitakyushu City). AGC will invest approximately 15 billion Japanese yen for…

Elessent Clean Technologies announces startup of alkylation unit at PetroChina Guangdong

Elessent Clean Technologies has announced that PetroChina Guangdong (PetroChina), a subsidiary of China National Petroleum Corp., has successfully completed and surpassed all performance guarantees for its groundbreaking 595,000-metric ton per year (m.t./yr) STRATCO alkylation unit. These guarantees cover crucial aspects…

BASF Environmental Catalyst and Metal Solutions acquires Arc Metal AB

BASF Environmental Catalyst and Metal Solutions (ECMS) has completed the acquisition of Arc Metal AB in Hofors, Sweden. The asset purchase adds toll smelting and processing of spent automotive catalyst in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) and further complements…

Saint-Gobain acquires International Cellulose Corp.

Saint-Gobain S.A. (Courbevoie, France) has completed the acquisition of International Cellulose Corp. (ICC), a leading manufacturer of specialty insulation in the United States, including spray-on thermal, fireproofing and acoustic finish systems for the U.S. non-residential market. ICC employs approximately 50…

Stamicarbon awarded a licensing and equipment supply contracts for an ultra-low-energy urea melt plant in China

Stamocarbon, the nitrogen technology licensor of the MAIRE engineering group, was awarded by Jiangsu Huachang Chemical Co.  licensing and equipment supply contracts for a urea melt plant in China. The plant located in Zhangjiagang City of Jiangsu province in China…

Arkema starts up expanded elastomers plant in France

Arkema S.A. (Colombes, France) has successfully started its new Pebax  elastomer unit at the Serquigny plant in France. This new unit, designed with the latest advancements in industrial processes, can produce both the bio-circular Pebax  Rnew  and classical Pebax  elastomer…

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Reducing CO2 emissions from pig iron production

Researchers of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT; Germany; www.kit.edu) and the SMS group GmbH (Düsseldorf, Germany; www.sms-group.com) have developed a new process to reduce CO2 emissions from worldwide steel production by several hundred million tons per year. It is based…

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Recycle any type of magnet from end-of-life products

A new pilot plant is demonstrating a proprietary technology for recycling magnet materials from end-of-life (EOL) products, such as electric motors, automobile parts and hard-disk drives. Developed by Cyclic Materials Inc. (Toronto, Ont., Canada; www.cyclicmaterials.earth), the Mag-Xtract process is said…

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Copper-graphene composite could enable more efficient electrical hardware

Composites of copper and graphene have been explored as a way to improve electrical conductivity, but researchers have not been successful at enhancing conductivity with a corresponding reduction in the temperature coefficient of resistance (TCR), and have not been able…