Chemical Engineering
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6/12/2024
Air Liquide to construct new high-purity gas plant in Idaho
Air Liquide S.A. (Paris) will build a new industrial-gas production facility in the United States to supply the new fab of one of the world’s leading semiconductor manufacturers. In the framework of a long-term contract, the plant will provide large volumes of high purity industrial gases for the production of memory chips. Air Liquide will invest over $250 million in the project. MORE
Technip Energies and Turner Industries awarded EPC contract for ExxonMobil CCUS system in Louisiana
Technip Energies (Paris), in consortium with Turner Industries, has been awarded the Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EPC) contract by ExxonMobil Low Carbon Solutions Onshore Storage LLC. Technip Energies will oversee the engineering and procurement while Turner Industries will be responsible for the construction.  MORE
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World’s first standalone alkylation complex reached completion at Next Wave Energy facility in Texas
Next Wave Energy Partners, LP (Next Wave) selected Elessent Clean Technologies, Inc. (Elessent) in 2019 to provide STRATCO alkylation technology at the world’s first stand-alone alkylation complex, which has now been completed. Situated in the heart of the Houston Ship Channel in Pasadena, Texas, this groundbreaking facility has the capability to produce 96.0 road octane (98+ Research Octane Number), 3.5 psia Reid vapor pressure, and a sulfur content of ≤5 ppm. MORE
 
Wacker opens new manufacturing site for mRNA active ingredients
Wacker Chemie AG (Munich, Germany) has opened an mRNA competence center at its biotech site in Halle (Saale), Germany. The new facility enables the large-scale production of active ingredients based on messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA), such as anti-Covid mRNA vaccines. Wacker invested more than €100 million in this construction project.  MORE
BASF sells its bioenergy enzymes business to Lallemand
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) has sold its bioenergy enzymes business based in San Diego to Lallemand's subsidiaries, Danstar Ferment AG and Lallemand Specialties Inc. This includes the Spartec product portfolio and related technologies in development. Lallemand will integrate the business and associated employees in its Lallemand Biofuels & Distilled Spirits (LBDS) business unit.  MORE
 
Asahi Kasei to build new biologics manufacturing site in Texas
Asahi Kasei Corp.  U.S. medical subsidiary Bionova Scientific, a full-service biologics CDMO, has decided to launch a new business line providing services leveraging plasmid DNA, and establish a dedicated facility for this purpose in Texas. Plasmids are increasingly used as important starting material in fields of biotechnology such as cell and gene therapies, mRNA vaccines, and antibody drugs.  MORE
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