Asahi Kasei Corp. (Tokyo) announced that it will construct an integrated plant in Ontario, Canada for the base film manufacturing and coating of Hipore wet-process lithium-ion battery (LIB) separator. In relation to this plant, Asahi Kasei has concluded a basic…
Frontier Energy, GTI Energy and the Center for Electromechanics at The University of Texas at Austin hosted the grand opening of a hydrogen research and demonstration facility. It was developed as part of the “Demonstration and Framework for H2@Scale in…
Linde plc (Guildford, U.K.) has signed two agreements with Guangdong Zhongnan Iron & Steel, a member of the China Baowu Steel Group Corporation, one of the world's largest steel enterprises. Linde has signed an agreement to de-captivate an air separation…
The Lubrizol Corp. (Cleveland, Ohio) announced a $20-million investment to its plant in Gastonia, North Carolina, to enhance production of innovative acrylic emulsions. Dating back to the 1950s, Lubrizol has a long history of innovating and manufacturing acrylic emulsion technologies…
Standard Lithium Ltd. (Vancouver, B.C., Canada)has successfully commissioned and validated the performance of the largest continuously-operating Direct Lithium Extraction (DLE) equipment in North America. The Company recently installed a commercial-scale DLE column at its Demonstration Plant near El Dorado, Arkansas.…
Technip Energies (Paris) and Anellotech, Inc. announced that they have signed a global joint-development agreement to work cooperatively to further develop and then license Anellotech’s Plas-TCat process, a one-step thermal-catalytic recycling technology that converts mixed plastic wastes back into its…
Innovafeed (Paris, France), a global leader in the production of insect ingredients for high-quality animal feed, pet food and plant nutrition, inaugurated its North American Insect Innovation Center (NAIIC) in Decatur, Illinois on the 18th of April. This pilot plant…
Lummus Technology (Houston) announced Indian Oil Corporation Ltd. (IOCL)selected the Lummus/Versalis cumene technology for a 440,000-ton/yr unit in Paradip, India. The new cumene unit is part of a grassroots petrochemical and polymers expansion at IndianOil's complex in Paradip. "Our cumene…
Novoloop (Menlo Park, Calif.; www.novoloop.com) announced the successful startup of its pilot plant in India. In collaboration with Aether Industries, a publicly-listed specialty chemicals manufacturer, the pilot plant’s groundbreaking in Surat was announced in January 2024. Construction was completed in…
Technip Energies (Paris) has been awarded a Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) contract by Viridor for the Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) project at one of the United Kingdom’s largest Energy-from-Waste facilities in Runcorn, United Kingdom. The project aims to capture…