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2025 CEPCI updates: June (prelim.) and May (final)
The preliminary value for the CE Plant Cost Index (CEPCI) for June 2025 (most recent available) increased compared to the previous month’s value. The rise was driven by higher producer prices for steel and copper mill products, among others. For…
Jenike & Johanson Canada office marks 50-year anniversary
Jenike & Johanson Ltd in Canada (Toronto, Ont.), part of the global Jenike & Johanson organization (Tyngsboro, Mass.; www.jenike.com), celebrated its 50th anniversary with an open-house event that brought together clients, partners, and employees. The milestone was marked with laboratory…
Air Products completes first liquid hydrogen fill of the world’s largest hydrogen sphere
Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.) announced it has successfully completed the first fill of the world’s largest hydrogen sphere at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) Kennedy Space Center located on Merritt Island, Florida. NASA uses liquid hydrogen combined…
Wood awarded contract for Turkey’s largest polypropylene plant
Wood plc (Aberdeen, U.K.) is providing project management consultancy (PMC) services to develop Turkey’s largest polypropylene plant and associated terminal facility as part of the Ceyhan project. Wood is deploying over 70 project management experts to support the engineering, procurement and…
Air Liquide acquires South Korean industrial gas leader DIG Airgas
Air Liquide S.A. (Paris) announced that it has signed a binding agreement with Macquarie Asia-Pacific Infrastructure Fund 2, for the acquisition of DIG Airgas, a leading national player in South Korea. It is expected to close in the first semester of…
Thyssenkrupp Uhde completes Pre-FEED work on HAMR Energy renewable fuels project
Thyssenkrupp Uhde GmbH (Dortmund, Germany) has completed the Pre-FEED (Front-End Engineering Design) phase for the Portland Renewable Fuels Project in collaboration with HAMR Energy. The project, located in Victoria, Australia, will use biomass residues and renewable electricity to produce green…
OCOChem and ADM to build CO2 electrolysis demonstration plant in Illinois
OCOchem (Richland, Wash.) announced production partnership agreement with ADM Co. (Chicago) to build a groundbreaking field demonstration plant using OCOchem’s Carbon FluX Electrolyzer technology. The plant will be co-located within ADM’s corn processing complex in Decatur, Illinois. It will convert…
SNF acquires Texas-based Obsidian Chemical Solutions
SNF Group (Andrézieux-Bouthéon, France) announced the acquisition of Obsidian Chemical Solutions LLC , a leading provider of specialty chemical solutions primarily for completion operations to the oil & gas industry. Based in Midland, Texas, Obsidian has grown rapidly to become…
ENi sells stake in its CCUS business to GIP
Eni S.p.A. (Rome, Italy) and Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP), a leading global infrastructure investor and a part of BlackRock, sign an agreement related to the sale of a stake of 49.99% in Eni CCUS Holding – a leading global player…
Carbon280 starts up hydrogen-storage pilot plant in Western Australia
Carbon280 Ltd. (Perth, Western Australia) announced the launch of its new Hydrilyte Pilot Plant in Kwinana, Western Australia. The company raised over $16 million to accelerate its innovative liquid hydrogen storage solution, Hydrilyte. The pilot and laboratory facilities were funded…