BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) has started production of methanol on the basis of renewable raw materials according to the biomass balance approach. The product name is EU-REDcert-methanol. The company replaces fossil raw materials with second-generation renewable raw materials and…
Synthomer (London, U.K.; www.synthomer.com) formally opened the latest 90,000-metric ton expansion of its nitrile latex production facility in Pasir Gudang, Malaysia, in the presence of over 120 customers, suppliers, contractors, government officials and media representatives. The plant was officially opened…
MAN Energy Solutions SE (Copenhagen, Denmark; www.man-es.com) has won the contract to design and deliver a liquified natural gas (LNG) regasification terminal for the Forchem company in Rauma. Forchem, an innovative and industry-leading company producing chemical and animal feed products…
Praxair, Inc. (Danbury, Conn.; www.praxair.com), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Linde plc has signed a long-term agreement to supply oxygen to Fulcrum BioEnergy’s Sierra BioFuels Plant in Storey County, Nevada. Praxair will build two vacuum-pressure-swing adsorption (VPSA) plants at the facility,…
TechnipFMC (Houston;www.technipfmc.com) announced that it has signed an exclusive collaboration agreement with Sumitomo Chemical Corp. (Tokyo; www.sumitomo-chem.co.jp) to license and engineer Sumitomo’s hydrogen chloride (HCI) oxidation technology. The technology is used to produce chlorine via the catalytic oxidation of hydrogen…
Showa Denko KK (SDK; Tokyo; www.sdk.co.jp) has completed expansion of the capacity to produce nanoparticle titanium oxide, which has been sold under the trade name of Super-Titania, at its wholly owned subsidiary Showa Denko Ceramics Co., Ltd. headquartered in Shiojiri…
NET Power, LLC (Durham, N.C.; www.netpower.com) and Oxy Low Carbon Ventures, LLC (OLCV), a subsidiary of Occidental Petroleum Corp.(Houston; www.oxy.com) announced that they have reached an investment agreement, subject to regulatory approval. The investment will advance the development of NET…
It was announced jointly that DuPont Industrial Biosciences (www.biosciences.dupont.com) and VERBIO North America Corporation (VNA), the U.S. subsidiary of leading German bioenergy producer VERBIO Vereinigte BioEnergie AG, have reached terms for VNA to acquire DuPont’s Nevada, Iowa-based cellulosic ethanol plant…
Standard Lithium Ltd. (Vancouver, B.C., Canada; www.standardlithium.com) has signed a term sheet with Lanxess AG (Leverkusen, Germany; www.lanxess.com) for a contemplated JV in the commercial production of battery grade lithium from brine extracted from the Smackover Formation in South Arkansas.…
Following mechanical completion of the facility, Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) has announced the official start-up of its new multi-layer coextrusion plant for polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) flat films. The first selected customers are now receiving samples. In Weiterstadt, 20…