Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany;) has signed an agreement to scale up and produce custom catalyst for Röhm GmbH’s (Darmstadt, Germany) new methyl methacrylate (MMA) production plant in Bay City, Texas, which is due to be opened in 2024. “This…
Topsoe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark) has signed an agreement with World Energy GH2 (Newfoundland, Canada) solutions provider, to provide Topsoe’s dynamic ammonia-loop technology for Canada’s largest, and one of the world’s first-to-market, renewable hydrogen projects — Project Nujio’qonik. Located in the…
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Thyssenkrupp Uhde GmbH (Dortmund, Germany) will support the Dutch government project OFFSET, a consortium led by project developer SwitcH2 B.V. (Rotterdam) and including partners BW Offshore Norway AS (BWO; Oslo, the Maritime Research Institute Netherlands (MARIN; Wageningen), TU Delft, and…
ITM Power plc (Sheffield, U.K.) and W. L. Gore & Associates (Newark, Del.) intend to collaborate to further deepen their understanding of proton exchange membrane water electrolysis (PEMWE) performance over lifetime, durability mechanisms and reliability. The collaboration will enable fast…
SunGas Renewables Inc. announced the formation of Beaver Lake Renewable Energy, LLC (BLRE), which will construct a new green methanol production facility in Central Louisiana. A wholly-owned subsidiary of SunGas Renewables, BLRE is expected to generate from the facility nearly…
Mitsui Chemicals, Inc. (Tokyo) announced that it has held the groundbreaking ceremony for a new plant to produce the high-performance elastomer Tafmer at its Singapore-based wholly owned subsidiary Mitsui Elastomers Singapore Pte Ltd (MELS). The ceremony was held on 28…
Conagen, the bioplatform innovator and biomanufacturer, and Sumitomo Chemical Co. (Tokyo, Japan) have announced to jointly develop p-hydroxystyrene (HS) and its polymer, poly p-hydroxystyrene (PHS), using a combination of biosynthesis, chemosynthesis, and polymerization. The monomer and the polymer are 100% renewable…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) will increase the production capacity for its medium-molecular weight polyisobutenes, marketed under the tradename OPPANOL B, at its site in Ludwigshafen, Germany, by 25%. The investment comes in response to the rising global demand for high-quality…
Wacker Chemie AG (Munich, Germany) recently finished expanding its production of hyperpure hydrogen chloride at its Burghausen site in Germany. The facility which was commissioned in mid-July significantly increased overall production. Buyers for the newly added production volumes come from…