Key technologies and approaches can help chemical transport operations meet regulations, while also reducing risk and expenditure The chemical process industries have felt the pressure of global economic shifts more than most in recent years, forcing many to look for…
Linde (Dublin, Ireland; www.linde.com) today announced it is doubling the capacity of its Freeport, Texas, carbon dioxide (CO₂) production facility by adding a second CO₂ liquefaction plant. Starting up in 2027, the new plant will liquefy crude CO₂ captured from MEGlobal America…
OCOchem (Richland, Wash.; www.ocochem.com) today announced the successful start-up and commissioning of the world’s first pilot plant to produce hydrogen formate and potassium formate at industrial scale using only carbon dioxide and water as feedstocks. The $5.0 million facility, capable…
Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises, Inc. (Akron, Ohio; www.babcock.com) announced today that it has reached an agreement to sell its Diamond Power International business (Lancaster, Ohio) to Austria-based Andritz (Graz, Austria; www.andritz.com) for $177 million, subject to customary fees and adjustments.…
Andritz (Graz, Austria; www.andritz.com) has today opened a new electroyzer gigafactory in Erfurt, Germany. The gigawatt-scale facility will supply Europe's growing green-hydrogen market. The new facility has an initial annual production capacity of approximately one gigawatt which corresponds to approximately…
Pittsburgh International Airport (PIT) and Avina Synthetic Aviation Fuel (Avina) are partnering to develop the first on-airport sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) production facility utilizing one of the very first alcohol-to-jet pathways in the U.S. Avina will build a state-of-the-art facility…
DuPont (Wilmington, Del.) announced that it has expanded its sterile operations via an addition to its healthcare manufacturing facility in Heredia, Costa Rica, enabling the site to produce sterile packaging for the global medical device industry while also increasing the capacity…
Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium) and BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) intend to jointly focus on a meaningful reduction in scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions within the hydrogen peroxide supply chain. Solvay has selected BASF as the primary supplier of aluminum chloride…
Metso Corp. (Espoo, Finland) announced plans to launch pilot and demonstration plants for the development and production of pCAM (precursor cathode-active material), supporting customers in their pCAM-related R&D and process development. These pilot and demo plants are based on advanced…
Honeywell (Charlotte, N.C.; www.honeywell.com), Johnson Matthey (London, U.K.; www.matthey.com), GIDARA Energy (Schiphol, the Netherlands; www.gidara-energy.com) and SAMSUNG E&A (Seoul, South Korea; www.samsungena.com) today announced the formation of a strategic technology alliance to bring a groundbreaking end-to-end global solution to market…