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Live from ACHEMA 2024 – Updates from Wednesday, June 12
Day 3 of ACHEMA 2024 is here and the halls are busier than ever. Read the Wednesday Show Daily here, including onsite coverage of Day 2, and also check out our Tuesday Photo Gallery below. Read Monday’s Achema Updates here…
BASF and NGK release advanced sodium-sulfur batteries
BASF Stationary Energy Storage GmbH, a wholly owned subsidiary of BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany), and NGK Insulators Ltd. (NGK), a Japanese ceramics manufacturer, have released an advanced container-type NAS battery (sodium-sulfur battery) . The new product NAS MODEL L24 has…
Yara opens renewable hydrogen site in Norway
Yara International ASA (Oslo, Norway) is officially opening its renewable hydrogen plant at Herøya, Norway. Yara is now producing renewable hydrogen and ammonia and has already delivered the first tons of fertilizers made from renewable ammonia produced at this plant.…
Technip Energies and Mitsubishi Chemical are licensing a new OXO alcohol technology
Technip Energies (Paris) and Mitsubishi Chemical Corp. (Tokyo), a member of the Mitsubishi Chemical Group, announced that they are licensing an improved OXO alcohol technology, named ‘OXO M-Process’. OXO alcohols are used as solvents in chemical manufacturing. The improved OXO-M…
Evonik starts up high-purity silica production in Michigan
Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany) has started the production of ultra-high purity colloidal silica for the semiconductor industry at its new facility in Weston, Michigan. Colloidal silica is a critical raw material for the electronics and semiconductor industries, whose growth…
ACHEMA Daily updates – Tues. June 11, 2024
Day 2 of ACHEMA 2024 is in full swing. Read the Tuesday Show Daily here, including onsite coverage of Day 1, and also check out our Tuesday Photo Gallery below. Read Monday's Achema Updates here
ACHEMA Daily Updates – June 10, 2024
ACHEMA 2024 opened today! Read the full Show Daily here and enjoy some photos from around the show. Coverage will continue throughout the week
TotalEnergies and Air Products sign agreement for the delivery of green hydrogen
TotalEnergies (Paris, France) and Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.) have signed a 15-year agreement for the annual supply in Europe of 70,000 tons of green hydrogen starting in 2030. This first long-term deal follows TotalEnergies’ call for tenders for the…
Cepsa begins construction of Spain’s first hydroalcoholic gel production plant
Cepsa continues to develop and diversify its chemicals business by starting the construction of a new isopropyl alcohol (IPA) plant, the first of its kind in Spain. This product is used not only in hydroalcoholic gels, but also in household…
Ecolab Life Sciences and Repligen launch new resin for large-scale biologic manufacturing
Ecolab (St. Paul, Minn.) announced that its Purolite resin business, together with Repligen Corporation, a life sciences company focused on bioprocessing technology leadership, today announced the commercial launch of Purolite’s DurA Cycle, a protein A chromatography resin for large-scale purification…