Pensana plc (London) and Equinor Energy AS (Stavanger, Norway) have signed a cooperation agreement to form a working group to share technical and commercial information to develop a low energy method for recycling of end-of-life magnets at Pensana’s rare earth…
Maire Tecnimont S.p.A. (Milan, Italy) announced that its subsidiaries Tecnimont S.p.A and MT Russia LLC have signed an EPC contract with Rosneft for the implementation of the VGO Hydrocracking Complex at the Ryazan Refining Company’s (RORC) production site, 200 km…
Sulzer Chemtech (Winterthur, Switzerland) has finalized an agreement with Encina Development Group, LLC. Sulzer Chemtech will provide technology to recover high purity circular aromatics from cracked oil products derived from Encina’s mixed-plastics-to-aromatics catalytic conversion platform. Encina’s 1000 ton/d waste plastics…
Larsen & Toubro (L&T), an Indian multinational engaged in EPC Projects, Hi-Tech Manufacturing and Services announced it has entered a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with HydrogenPro AS, a Norway-based leading Electrolyzer technology and manufacturing company for partnership to tap the…
Honeywell (Charlotte, N.C.) announced its intent to form a joint venture (JV) with Avangard Innovative to build an advanced recycling plant in Texas. The facility will use Honeywell's recently announced UpCycle Process Technology to transform end-of-life plastic waste into recycled…
Air Liquide announced a longterm agreement to supply ultra-high-purity hydrogen, helium, and carbon dioxide to one of the world’s largest semiconductor manufacturers. Air Liquide plans to invest nearly $60 million (approximately 50 million euros) to build, own and operate onsite plants…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafe, Germany) has expanded the production capacity of its enzymes plant in Ludwigshafen, Germany. Through the expansion of the existing plant, BASF has significantly increased the annual number of feasible fermentation runs. The larger production capacity enables BASF…
Due to strong demand for lithium-ion batteries, and other important markets, Arkema (Colombes, France) has announced that its 35% fluoropolymer capacity increase at its Changshu site in China is now revised upwards to a capacity increase of 50%, with no…
Lanxess AG (Cologne, Germany) is expanding its production capacity for the active ingredient Preventol CMK (chlorocresol) at the Krefeld-Uerdingen, Germany, site by around 50 percent in response to the continuing strong demand for disinfectants and industrial preservation. The specialty chemicals…
Technip Energies (Paris) and Iowa Corn announced that the Iowa Corn Promotion Board (ICPB) and Technip Energies have signed an Asset Purchase Agreement under which Technip Energies acquires ICPB’s patents, technology, and rights for the process technology to produce monoethylene…