Facility monitoring, LED lighting and low-impact cleaners help reduce carbon footprint at chemical process industries (CPI) facilities It is not always possible to refine a process to help reduce a facility’s carbon footprint; however, embracing some newer trends in more…
When updating equipment protection systems in a plant, it often pays to think long term. Today’s protection systems can do more than avoid catastrophic failure — they are the foundation of an enterprise-wide predictive maintenance program Chemical process industries (CPI)…
Fujifilm Corp. (Tokyo) announced an investment of 20 billion yen in its semiconductor materials business to further strengthen its facilities for the development, production and quality evaluation of advanced semiconductor materials in Shizuoka and Oita, Japan. The total amount of…
Gevo, Inc. (Englewood, Colo.) has acquired Cultivate Agricultural Intelligence, LLC (CultivateAI) for $6 million in cash, with the opportunity for the sellers to receive additional earn-out payments. Gevo will fold CultivateAI into its wholly owned Verity subsidiary to accelerate Verity’s…
Schneider Electric (Paris) has partnered with Glencore Ltd. (Baar, Switzerland) to transform its copper supply chain and enhance decarbonization efforts. S&P Global estimates that demand for copper will double by 2035, driven by electrification and the clean energy transition. Balancing…
HIF Global (Houston) announced its first project in Brazil, after signing a land reservation contract with Port of Açu, one of Brazil's main ports, to develop a facility to produce up to 800,000 tons per year of e-Methanol. Pursuant to…
Avient Corp. (Cleveland, Ohio) is expanding the manufacturing of its NEU Custom Capabilities and NEUSoft Thermoplastic Polyurethane (TPU) solutions for catheter applications to its plant in Suzhou, China. This announcement also coincides with the start of Avient’s exhibit at Medtec…
Wood plc (Aberdeen, U.K.) has been awarded a three-year contract to operate and maintain the Freepoint Eco-Systems plant in Hebron, Ohio. The flagship facility spans 25 acres, utilizing a 260,000 square foot warehouse, making it one of the largest advanced…
At Hokkaido University in Japan, researchers led by Takuya Shimajiri and Associate Professor Yusuke Ishigaki have made the first-ever observation of a stable, single-electron carbon-carbon covalent bond. Covalent bonds, in which two atoms are bound together by sharing a pair…
The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM) today announced up to $15 million in federal funding to make clean hydrogen a more available and affordable fuel for electricity generation, industrial decarbonization, and transportation. Specifically,…