Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.) and Associated British Ports (ABP) announced their intention to partner in bringing the first large scale, green hydrogen production facility to the UK. The facility would import green ammonia from production locations operated by Air…
Technip Energies (Paris) announced the purchase of the Biosuccinium technology from Royal DSM N.V. (Herleen, the Netherlands), adding another technology solution to its growing Sustainable Chemicals portfolio. This technology synergizes with recently developed proprietary bio-polymer technologies and provides a commercially…
Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany) and Shell are making inroads into defossilizing heavy-duty road transport with Bio-LNG (liquefied natural gas). Shell is supplying 100 tons of Bio-LNG made from agricultural waste to Evonik. It is equivalent to the average fuel…
Kraton Corp. (Houston) announced an expansion project for its hydrogenated styrenic block copolymers (HSBC) Joint Venture (JV) manufacturing facility in Mailiao, Taiwan. The HSBC JV plant is held between Kraton and Formosa Petrochemical Corp. This project will increase the capacity…
Saipem S.p.A. (San Donato Milanese, Italy) and Quantafuel ASA (Oslo, Norway) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to collaborate in the industrialisation and construction of waste plastics chemical recycling plants based on Quantafuel technology. This MoU positions Saipem to…
Syzygy Plasmonics, LOTTE Chemical and LOTTE Fine Chemical (LOTTE Chemical HQ), and Sumitomo Corp. of Americas (SCOA) announced a joint development agreement today to test a fully electric chemical reactor for clean hydrogen production. The reactor will be installed and…
McDermott International, Inc. (Houston) has been awarded a Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) contract from Viva Energy Australia as part of its Geelong Refinery project to provide additional desulfurization capabilities. The award follows the successful completion of the Pre-FEED activity and…
Henkel Korea has announced the completion of its state-of-the-art Songdo Plant within the Songdo High-tech Industrial Cluster in Incheon, which will become the Asia-Pacific production hub for high-impact electronics solutions of the Adhesive Technologies business unit. Henkel Korea signed a…
Worley (North Sydney, Australia) has been awarded a project management services contract by Vertex Hydrogen for its low-carbon hydrogen production plant at Stanlow Manufacturing Complex in Ellesmere Port. The 350 MW plant is the first in the U.K. to have…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) has started producing fuel performance additives at its Pudong site in Shanghai, China. The new plant addresses the increasing regional demand for fuel performance additives and brings greater supply security and flexibility to customers in Asia.…