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Nobian and Adven to build a new electric caustic soda facility in Delfzijl
Energy partner Adven is starting the construction of an energy-efficient evaporation plant with Nobian, a company working in salt, essential chemicals and storage caverns, in Delfzijl, the Netherlands. This reduces 25,000 tons of CO₂ emissions annually, an energy saving of…
SWA Lithium and Koch Technology Solutions sign license for DLE project in North America
SWA Lithium, the joint venture (JV) between Standard Lithium and Equinor which is developing the South West Arkansas Project, has entered into a license agreement with Koch Technology Solutions LLC (KTS) to deploy and use KTS’ Li-Pro Lithium Selective Sorption…
Hystar awarded grant for automated industrial production of electrolyzer stacks
Hystar AS (Høvik, Norway) is to receive a €26 million grant from the EU Innovation Fund, one of the world’s largest funding programs for innovative low-carbon technologies. The grant will be used for the installation and operation of Hystar’s automated…
BASF Petronas Chemicals inaugurates new 2-ethylhexanoic acid plant in Malaysia
Joint venture BASF Petronas Chemicals (BPC) announced the inauguration of its second 2-ethylhexanoic acid (2-EHAcid) production line at the integrated site in Kuantan, Malaysia. This expansion directly responds to the rapidly growing demand for high-quality 2 EHAcid, reaffirming BPC’s commitment…
Metso to deliver precious-metals refinery for e-waste recycling plant in India
Hindalco Industries Ltd., a global aluminum and copper processor, and a flagship company of the Aditya Birla Group, has awarded Metso Corp. (Espoo, Finland) an order for the delivery of engineering and key equipment for a new precious metals refinery…
Invista to continue HMD production at Orange, Texas site
Invista (Wichita, Kan.) announced it would continue hexamethylene diamine (HMD) production at its site in Orange, Texas. “Since last year’s announcement regarding ending adiponitrile (ADN) and HMD operations at our Orange site, multiple circumstances have changed, including the Orange site’s…
Metso opens DRI smelting furnace pilot facility in Pori, Finland
Metso Corp. (Espoo, Finland) has opened a state-of-the-art DRI (direct reduced iron) Smelting Furnace pilot facility in Pori, Finland. The new facility, opened on October 25, 2024, will allow customer-specific pilot-scale testing to demonstrate the applicability and results of industrial-scale…
Technip Energies and Enerkem formalize collaboration to advance waste-to-sustainable fuels and circular chemicals technology
Technip Energies (Paris) and Enerkem Inc. (Montreal, Queb., Canada) have signed a Collaboration Agreement, solidifying their commitment to accelerate the deployment of Enerkem’s technology converting non-recyclable waste and residues into sustainable fuels and circular chemical products. Enerkem’s groundbreaking gasification technology…
Linde to extend supply of industrial gases to Tata Steel Ltd. in India
Linde plc (Guildford, U.K.) announced that it has signed agreements to de-captivate two air separation units (ASUs) and expand its existing supply of industrial gases to Tata Steel Ltd. in Odisha, India. Linde already supplies industrial gases from its existing…
BASF to expand production capacity for expandable polystyrene at Ludwigshafen site
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) is strengthening its styrene value chain at its Ludwigshafen site by expanding the production capacity of Neopor by 50,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr). This increase is aimed at meeting the growing market demand for the…