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Saint-Gobain to upgrade Europe’s largest mineral-wool manufacturing site

Saint-Gobain (Courbevoie, France) announced that its ISOVER plant in Orange (France), Europe's largest mineral wool manufacturing site, will benefit from a €15 million investment to rebuild its furnace in 2023. Saint Gobain previously announced investment to increase ISOVER’s production capacity.…

Air Products and World Energy join forces to expand SAF production in California

Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.) announced that it is teaming up with World Energy to build a new $2-billion major expansion project at World Energy’s Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) production and distribution hub in Paramount, California. The LA county facility…

Solvay to begin production of new solvent at Melle site

Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium) announced the production of its new solvent, Rhodiasolv IRIS, which has beneficial eco-friendly properties. Previously manufactured in China, this solvent will now be produced from 2023 onwards at Solvay's Melle site in France. Rhodiasolv IRIS is efficient, non-flammable, readily…

Unleash Security Synergies in Your Connected Chemical Plant

The same IIoT technologies that can improve plant performance can also help protect it from cyberthreats You don’t typically consider victims of cyberattacks to be lucky, but that’s the case for one petrochemical plant in Saudi Arabia. The plant was…

thyssenkrupp Steel announces groundbreaking of new scrap-recycling plant in Duisburg

At thyssenkrupp Steel’s recycling location in the Duisburg inland port, on the so-called Schrottinsel (scrap island) in Duisburg, a groundbreaking ceremony was held for the construction of a scrap processing plant by TSR Recycling GmbH. The processing plant is part…

CWP Global selects Bechtel for large-scale green hydrogen and ammonia projects

CWP Global has selected Bechtel Corp. (Reston, Va.) to support developments of large-scale green hydrogen and ammonia facilities. The agreement creates a platform for the partnership to provide ongoing conceptual and early planning solutions in selecting optimal integrated configurations for the…

Topsoe to supply technologies for Refuel Energy’s renewable-fuels plant in Canada

Refuel Energy Inc. has announced its plans for the construction of a 3,000 barrels per day renewable fuel plant in Southern Ontario, Canada. The proposed project, called Refuel YYZ, would supply the aviation and terrestrial fuel needs of the Greater…

2022 CEPCI updates: February (prelim.) and January (final)

The preliminary value for the February 2022 CE Plant Cost Index (the most recent available) was higher than the previous month, continuing the steep monthly increases observed throughout 2021. The upward trend has been driven largely by equipment costs —…

Saint-Gobain boosts glass-recycling capabilities at Minnesota plant

Saint-Gobain North America, through its electrochromic glass subsidiary SageGlass, announced that it will recycle over 1,000 tons of glass per year for the next five years, diverting the material from landfills and upcycling the components for future use through an…

TUV Rheinland Releases first global Green Hydrogen & Ammonia Certificate for greenfield project in Oman

TUV Rheinland announced the issuance of the First Green Hydrogen and Green Ammonia Certificate Globally to Green Hydrogen & Chemicals SPC for the production of Green Hydrogen and Green Ammonia as part of the Greenfield Project, a PV powered Hydrogen-Ammonia…