Carbios (St-Beauzire, France) announced the signing of a multi-year commercial agreement with Indorama Ventures Ltd. (IVL; Bangkok, Thailand) covering the supply of biorecycled monomers from its Longlaville plant, which will be transformed into r-PET filaments by Indorama Ventures and then…
Par Pacific Holdings, Inc. (Houston), Mitsubishi Corp. (Tokyo), and Eneos Corp. (Tokyo) announced the signing of definitive agreements to establish Hawaii Renewables, LLC , a joint venture to produce renewable fuels at Par Pacific’s refinery in Kapolei Hawaii. Mitsubishi and…
DNV has completed a comprehensive technical review of Electric Hydrogen's (EH2; Natick, Mass.) HYPRPlant, validating its alignment with current industry standards for process design, safety and manufacturing process. The pre-engineered electrolyzer system–a device that uses electricity to split water into…
Sasol Chemicals, a business of Sasol Ltd. (Johannesburg, South Africa), and German startup Ineratec GmbH (Karlsruhe, Germany) have signed a Letter of Intent (LoI) committing to the supply of Sasol’s next generation catalyst as soon as the development cycle is…
Mangrove Lithium (Delta, B.C., Canada) announced a major expansion initiative to address North America’s growing need for lithium refining. The new facility will be capable of producing 20,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr) of battery-grade lithium, enough to power over…
Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium) has taken a new step to reduce scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions by incorporating biogenic CO₂ provided by Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.) into its soda ash and bicarbonate production plant in Dombasle, France. The initiative…
AstraZeneca (Cambridge, U.K.) announced $50 billion of investment in the United States by 2030, building on America’s global leadership in medicines manufacturing and R&D. This investment is expected to create tens of thousands of new, highly skilled direct and indirect…
The Albères-Côte Vermeille-Illibéris Community of Municipalities (CCACVI) and Veolia Water Technologies broke ground on an ambitious treated-wastewater reuse program. Located in Argelès-sur-Mer, one of France’s premier beach destinations, this strategic facility will enable the reuse of 1.3 million cubic meters…
The Busch Group (Maulburg, Germany) has announced the death of its co-founder and co-owner Dr. Karl Busch, who died on July 17, 2025, at the age of 96. The engineer, inventor and entrepreneur was born on April 20, 1929, in…
TotalEnergies SE (Paris) and Emerson’s Aspen Technology business have announced a strategic collaboration to deploy advanced digital technologies for the continuous, real-time collection of data from TotalEnergies’ industrial sites. The objective is to harness the value of that data to…