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Linde Engineering Starts Up World’s First Plant for Extracting H2 from Natural Gas Pipelines Using Membrane Technology

Linde Engineering (Pullach, Germany) has officially started up the world’s first full-scale pilot plant in Dormagen, Germany (photo) to showcase how hydrogen can be separated from natural gas streams using Linde’s Hiselect powered by Evonik membrane technology. The process is…

thyssenkrupp Uhde makes ArcelorMittal Belgium coke plant more environment-friendly

ArcelorMittal Belgium (Ghent, Belgium) has awarded thyssenkrupp Uhde GmbH (Dortmund, Germany) an order for a desulphurization plant to be installed at its Ghent site. The main aim of this brownfield project is to enhance the existing coke-oven-gas treatment plant with…

Toyo and SCG Chemicals exploring scaleup of advanced plastics-recycling process

Toyo Engineering Corp. (Tokyo) and SCG Chemicals Co. (Bangkok, Thailand) entered into a memorandum of understanding (MOU) are jointly collaborating to further develop the advanced recycling process owned by Circular Plas (CirPlas), in which SCG Chemicals holds a 60% stake,…

Petronas Chemicals to build melamine plant in Malaysia

PETRONAS Chemicals Group Berhad (PCG; Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) will begin building a 60,000-ton/yr melamine plant in Gurun, Kedah, Malaysia, making it the sole melamine producer in Southeast Asia (SEA).   Targeted to come onstream in 2024, this project is in…

Solenis acquires German DMA3 manufacturer SCL GmbH

Solenis (Wilmington, Del.) closed on the acquisition of 100% of the outstanding shares of SCL GmbH (SCL) on January 18, 2022. Located in Ludwigshafen, Germany, SCL produces DMA3 (Dimethylaminoethyl acrylate), a primary raw material for cationic polyacrylamide production. The acquisition…

McDermott selected for pioneering biosurfactants project

McDermott International Inc. (Houston) has been selected to work on a pioneering project for the production of Rhamnolipids—an advanced technology with the potential to fundamentally transform cleaning products and significantly reduce their environmental impact. Rhamnolipids are a type of biosurfactant…

Genomatica and Covestro produce first volumes of bio-based HMDA

Covestro AG (Leverkusen, Germany) and Genomatica (San Diego, Calif.) announced an industry milestone to advance sustainability resulting from their partnership. The two companies have teamed to be the first to successfully produce significant volumes of a plant-based version of the chemical raw…

Veolia Carbon Clean JV launches carbon-capture project with Tata Steel

Veolia Carbon Clean — a joint venture between Carbon Clean (London) and Veolia (Paris, France) — is celebrating its first project milestone and revealing a new corporate identity. The joint venture is committed to reducing industrial carbon dioxide emissions and…

Stamicarbon awarded licensing and equipment-supply contract for two urea plants in China

Stamicarbon BV (Sittard, the Netherlands), the innovation and license company of Maire Tecnimont S.p.A. (Rome, Italy; www.mairetecnimont.com), has been awarded a licensing and equipment supply contract for two Ultra-Low Energy grassroots urea plants in the People’s Republic of China. The…

Schneider Electric acquires AI-powered climate-tech platform Zeigo

Schneider Electric  announced that it has acquired start-up climate-tech platform Zeigo to enhance the company’s digital capabilities in energy, sustainability, and environmental commodity consulting. The acquisition will complement Schneider Electric’s portfolio of clean energy services and solutions and advance the…