Lanxess AG (Cologne, Germany) inaugurated a new blending plant at its chemical manufacturing site in Jhagadia, Gujarat, India on April 24. As part of the first phase of development, the facility will manufacture specialty lubricant additives. The new plant represents…
Elkem ASA (Oslo, Norway) has been awarded NOK 87 million by Enova to develop industrial biocarbon solutions that can increase the share of renewable carbon used at Norwegian smelters. The project, which has a total budget of NOK 242 million…
Nippon Shokubai Ltd. (Osaka, Japan) announced that it will expand its production facilities with an additional 10,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr) of production capacity for LiFSI (lithium bis(fluorosulfonyl)imide, trade name: IONEL), a lithium salt used as an electrolyte for…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) announced that its Aroma Ingredients business unit has launched three newly built world-scale plants – menthol and linalool in Ludwigshafen, Germany, and citral in Zhanjiang, China. This announcement follows the inauguration ceremony of BASF’s Zhanjiang Verbund…
Dow Chemical Co. (Midland, Mich.; www.dow.com), a global materials science company, and RDM Group (Milan, Italy; www.rdmgroup.com), a leading producer of recycled cartonboard, today announced the launch of Multiboard CirculaRR, a breakthrough solution that advances circularity in food barrier packaging.…
H2SITE, a technology company specialized in advanced hydrogen production and separation solutions, has signed a strategic agreement with Petronor S.A., a leading refinery and key industrial player in the energy sector, to deploy its high-efficiency hydrogen separation technology at Petronor’s…
Guangdong Liquid Sunshine has selected Johnson Matthey (JM; London) as a technology partner for its first commercial-scale project - a biomethanol plant planned in Tiandong County, Guangxi. The two companies, alongside the East China Engineering Science and Technology Co. (ECEC),…
Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.) announced plans to build, own and operate a new air separation unit (ASU) in the City of Cocoa, Florida. The ASU will produce liquid oxygen, nitrogen and argon. The plant is targeted to be on…
Corbion (Amsterdam, the Netherlands; www.corbion.com), a global leader in sustainable specialty food ingredients, announces its latest awarded patent relating to the liquid suspension of algal biomass with a distinct DHA-rich omega-3 profile. This innovation builds on a unique suspension design…
Dutch technology companies BlueAlp (Eindhoven, the Netherlands; www.bluealp.nl) and BioBTX (Gronigen, the Netherlands; www.biobtx.com) announce that BlueAlp has been selected as technology partner for the BioBTX project in Delfzijl. The goal is to combine the technologies in the BioBTX plant…