SUEZ (Paris) and U.K.-based company Salinity Solutions announced the launch of the first Hybrid Batch Reverse Osmosis (HBRO) pilot dedicated to municipal wastewater reuse at the Béziers wastewater treatment plant in southern France. The pilot based on Salinity Solutions’ HyBatch™…
NatureWorks LLC (Plymouth, Minn.) , the leading manufacturer of polylactic acid (PLA) biopolymers made from renewable resources, announced the grand opening of its new fully integrated Ingeo™ biopolymer manufacturing facility in Nakhon Sawan, Thailand. The new site brings together lactic…
Salt X Technology AB (Hägersten, Sweden) and Holcim (Zug, Switzerland) have, within the framework of their joint development collaboration, successfully and repeatedly produced Portland-quality cement clinker using a fully electrified, scalable process. Cement raw meal from Holcim was calcined at…
Celanese Corp. (Dallas, Tex.) and SharpCell Oy, a Finnish family-owned company producing high quality airlaid materials, announced their cooperation to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions through the use of carbon capture and utilization (CCU) technology in Celanese binders. Pioneering in…
UPM Specialty Materials (UPM; Helsinki, Finland) and BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) are collaborating to help brand owners, converters and formulators accelerate the transition to recyclable*, fiber-based packaging solutions. By combining UPM’s barrier and barrier base papers with BASF’s Joncryl HPB…
Evonik (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) and Imubit (Houston, Tex.; www.imubit.com) started a pilot collaboration to evaluate advanced industrial artificial intelligence (AI) applications within Evonik’s facility in Singapore. The open-loop pilot will assess model-driven insights to support operating strategy execution in a…
KBR Inc. (Houston) has made a strategic investment in Geolith, a global leader in Direct Lithium Extraction (DLE). This investment will support the global commercial deployment of Geolith’s DLE Li-Capt® technology. In 2024, KBR and GeoLith entered into an exclusive…
DuPont (Wilmington, Del.) announced a strategic collaboration with Uncountable, an AI-driven platform for end-to-end product and application development, to advance its AI-ready labs initiative. The collaboration marks a major step forward in how DuPont scales digital lab workflows, expands access…
Westlake Corp. (Houston) announced that its Westlake Epoxy plant in Deer Park, Texas, has received International Sustainability & Carbon Certification (ISCC) PLUS. The certification covers liquid epoxy resins (LER), solid epoxy resins (SER), and liquid epoxy blends that combine LER…
LyondellBasell Industries (Rotterdam, the Netherlands) announced that it has successfully completed the sale of select European olefins and polyolefins assets, and the associated business and corporate functions, to AEQUITA as a key milestone in the company’s European strategic assessment. The…