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IBU-tec and Hosokawa Alpine start up battery-recycling pilot plant in Weimar

IBU-tec advanced materials AG (Weimar, Germany) and machinery and plant manufacturer Hosokawa Alpine (Augsburg, Germany) have set up a pilot plant for the recycling of battery materials at its headquarters in Weimar. As part of the cooperation, IBU-tec will contribute…

ACT-ion to establish advanced cathode pilot plant in Carrollton, Texas

Battery material manufacturer ACT-ion Battery Technologies, Inc. (Dallas) announced it has signed a lease for a new facility at 1200 Tappan Circle in Carrollton, Texas. This site will house a state-of-the-art pilot plant dedicated to scaling its clean high-throughput manufacturing…

Niron Magnetics breaks ground on rare-earth-free magnet manufacturing plant in Minnesota

Niron Magnetics (Minneapolis, Minn.) has broken ground on a new state-of-the-art 1,500-ton-per-year permanent magnet manufacturing facility in Sartell, Minnesota. After nearly a decade of research and development in partnership with the U.S. Department of Energy and the University of Minnesota,…

TotalEnergies and Cognite expand partnership to scale industrial AI

TotalEnergies (Paris) and Cognite, a leader in industrial AI, announced an agreement will scale the deployment - over a period of three years - of the Cognite industrial data and AI platform, across all TotalEnergies' operated upstream assets worldwide, covering…

Berkshire Hathaway to acquire OxyChem from Occidental for $9.7 billion

Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (Omaha, Neb.) and Occidental Petroleum Corp. (Houston) announced a definitive agreement for Berkshire Hathaway to acquire Occidental’s chemical business, OxyChem, in an all-cash transaction for $9.7 billion, subject to customary purchase price adjustments. OxyChem is a global…

Air Liquide invests €130 million in high-purity gas supply in Singapore

In the frame of two new long-term contracts, Air Liquide S.A. (Paris) will build, own and operate two new state-of-the-art industrial gas facilities to support the expansion of a leading semiconductor manufacturer in Singapore, for a total investment of €130…

A new pilot plant will demonstrate microwave-based lithium-refining technology

Mitsui & Co., Ltd. (Tokyo) and Microwave Chemical Co., Ltd. (MWCC) will initiate a demonstration experiment using a pilot plant under the agreement of the joint development of microwave-based low-carbon lithium ore refining technology. The use of electric power in…

DuPont acquires reverse-osmosis company in China

DuPont (Wilmington, Del.) has signed an agreement to acquire Sinochem (Ningbo) RO Memtech Co., Ltd. (“Sinochem (Ningbo) Memtech”) to expand its reverse osmosis (RO) manufacturing footprint into China and the Asia Pacific region. With advanced membrane and fabrication production technologies,…

LG Chem develops liquid photo-imageable dielectric for semiconductor packaging

LG Chem Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea) announced that it has completed the development of a liquid photo-imageable dielectric (PID), a key material for advanced semiconductor packaging, and is now gearing up to actively address the demand in AI and other…

Aramco, Honeywell and KAUST sign joint development agreement on crude-to-chemicals technology

In a move intended to accelerate Saudi Arabia’s leadership in downstream innovation, Aramco (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia; www.aramco.com), Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.; www.honeywell.com), and King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST; Thuwal, Saudi Arabia; www.kaust.edu.sa) have signed a joint…