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LG Water Solutions awarded major SWRO membrane contract for world’s largest fertilizer momplex in Morocco
LG Water Solutions, LG Chem’s business unit specializing in water treatment and the manufacturer of NanoH2O reverse osmosis (RO) membranes, has secured a supply order of seawater RO (SWRO) membrane elements through a local EPC for an expansion of a…
Enapter AG receives largest single European order to date for megawatt-range electrolyzers
Enapter AG (Berlin, Germany) has received further orders for its megawatt-class electrolyzer, the AEM Nexus 1000. Thanks to their multicore technology, these AEM electrolysers are particularly suitable for the highly efficient production of green hydrogen from renewable energy sources on…
Aker Carbon Capture and SLB to combine CCUS assets into new joint business
Aker Carbon Capture ASA () today announced an agreement with SLB to combine their respective carbon capture businesses to support accelerated industrial decarbonization at scale. Bringing together complementary technology portfolios, leading process design expertise and an established project delivery platform,…
BASF breaks ground on methyl glycols plant at Zhanjiang Verbund site in China
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) has broken ground on a methyl glycols (MG) plant at its Verbund site in Zhanjiang, China. The new facility is designed with an annual capacity of 46,000 metric tons and aims to meet the rapidly growing…
Dow and Procter & Gamble to develop a new plastic recycling technology
Dow (Midland, Mich.) and the Procter & Gamble Co. (Cincinnati, Ohio) announced a joint development agreement (JDA) to create a new recycling technology. The vision is to enable efficient conversion of hard-to-recycle plastic packaging into recycled polyethylene with near-virgin quality…
Technip Energies and LanzaTech selected by DOE for potential investment in decarbonized ethylene technology
Technip Energies (Paris) and LanzaTech Global, Inc. (Skokie, Ill.) were selected by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations to begin award negotiations for up to $200 million in Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and Inflation Reduction Act…
Ecolab opens wastewater-treatment plant at Shell Jurong Island in Singapore
Nalco Water, the Ecolab, Inc. (St. Paul, Minn.) water-management brand, announced the opening of a wastewater treatment plant in Shell Jurong Island, Singapore. Commencing operations earlier this year, this facility is designed to handle variable bio-treater wastewater. The plant utilizes…
Repsol acquires stake in three Bunge Iberica production facilities
Repsol S.A. (Madrid, Spain) and Bunge (St. Louis, Mo.) have agreed to partner in the development of new opportunities to help meet the growing demand for lower carbon intensity feedstocks for the production of renewable fuels. This alliance, the first…
3M invests in hydrogen electrolyzer manufacturer EVOLOH
3M (St. Paul, Minn.) has invested in EVOLOH, a cleantech company that is working to scale up manufacturing of its electrolyzers to make green hydrogen affordable and efficient. Electrolyzers work by using electricity to separate the atoms in water. The…
Henkel and Kraton enter supply agreement for lower-carbon adhesive formulations
Henkel AG (Düsseldorf, Germany) and Kraton Corp. (Houston) announced a multi-year supply partnership. In this agreement, Kraton will supply Henkel Adhesive Technologies with high-performance, biobased tackifiers and its patented REvolution rosin ester technology to enable carbon emission reductions in a…