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Metso Outotec to deliver siderite calcination plant in Turkey

Metso Outotec Corp. (Helsinki, Finland) has signed an agreement for the delivery of a siderite calcination plant to Hekimhan Madencilik, a subsidiary of Koloğlu Holding, located in Malatya, Turkey. The value of the order is approximately EUR 23 million, and…

Chevron and Bunge create renewable feedstocks JV

Chevron U.S.A. Inc., a subsidiary of Chevron Corp. (San Ramon, Calif.), and Bunge North America, Inc., a subsidiary of Bunge Ltd., announced the signing of definitive transaction agreements to create their previously announced joint venture (JV). The new venture will…

Emerson opens integrated manufacturing facility in Chennai

Emerson (St. Louis, Mo.) announced the opening of a new integrated manufacturing facility at Mahindra World City, in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. The 145,000-square-foot facility will manufacture industry-leading products of the company's Automation Solutions business which provides industrial customers in India and…

BASF to expand production capacity for PA and PBT in Malaysia

BASF (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd will expand the production capacity of its Ultramid polyamide (PA) and Ultradur polybutylene terephthalate (PBT) product by 5,000 metric tons per year. Completion of the debottlenecking at BASF’s production site in Pasir Gudang, Malaysia, is planned…

Worley, ABB and IBM collaborating to promote efficient green-hydrogen facilities

Worley (North Sydney, Australia) signed a memorandum of understanding with ABB, Inc. (Zurich, Switzerland) and IBM (Armonk, N.Y.) to collaborate on helping energy companies build and operate green hydrogen facilities more efficiently and at scale. The planned three-party collaboration aims…

Eni, Edison and Ansaldo Energia to jointly study green hydrogen production at Porto Marghera

Eni S.p.A. (Rome, Italy), Edison and Ansaldo Energia have signed an agreement launch a feasibility study for the production of green hydrogen, produced through water electrolysis, or blue with the use of natural gas, from which the CO2 produced is…

Toyo Engineering awarded cracker electrification contract in Thailand

Toyo Engineering Corp. (Tokyo) has been selected as the commissioned contractor of a project called: “Surveys of suitability of demonstration requirements for demonstration research project on an electrification technology of ethylene cracking furnaces realizing net zero emissions of CO2 in…

Denka and Toyo Styrene to construct chemical recycling plant for polystyrene

Denka Company Ltd. and Toyo Styrene Co., Ltd. (Both Tokyo) have decided to construct a chemical recycling plant for used polystyrene (PS) with an annual processing capacity of approx. 3,000 tons. The plant will be constructed on the premises of…

Messer to build $50-million air-separation plant in Texas

Messer Group GmbH (Bad Soden, Germany) is investing more than $50 million in the construction of a large air separation unit in McGregor, Texas. The production plant for air gases will be operated substantially with energy from an on-site solar…

Mitsui Chemicals announces pilot project to commercialize ammonia-fueled naphtha crackers

Mitsui Chemicals, Inc. (Tokyo), along with Maruzen Petrochemical Co., Ltd., Toyo Engineering Corp. (Tokyo) and Sojitz Machinery Corp., announced that a joint pilot project to be demonstrated by the four companies is to be funded by the New Energy and…