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Toray supplying RO membranes for advanced desalination plant in western Saudi Arabia

Toray Industries, Inc. (Tokyo) announced that it has supplied reverse osmosis (RO) membranes to the Shuaibah 3 IWP seawater desalination plant in Saudi Arabia through Dammam-based subsidiary Toray Membrane Middle East LLC. The Plant’s daily potable water production capacity is…

GEA opens food application and technology center in Wisconsin

GEA Group (Düsseldorf, Germany) opened its New Food Application and Technology Center (ATC) in Janesville, Wisconsin, on July 17, 2025. The $20 million facility is the company’s second global Center of Excellence dedicated to alternative proteins and sustainable food solutions…

Shell Catalysts & Technologies and Technip Energies sign agreement to deliver carbon-capture solution

Shell Catalysts & Technologies (Houston, Tex.; www.shell.com) and Technip Energies (Paris, France; www.ten.com) have signed their global alliance agreement to work exclusively together to deliver a post-combustion amine-based carbon capture solution using Shell’s CANSOLV* CO₂ Capture System.  The alliance combines…

Evonik now using green electricity for polybutadiene production in Germany

Since July 1, 2025, Evonik’s Coating & Adhesive Resins business line (Marl, Germany; coating-adhesive-resin.evonik.com) has been using green electricity for its polybutadiene production in Marl, Germany. This initiative is part of Evonik’s sustainability strategy aimed at achieving its environmental goals…

Black & Veatch completes FEED study for green hydrogen project in U.K.

Black & Veatch (Overland Park, Kan.; www.bv.com) has completed execution of a front-end engineering design (FEED) study for the Whitelee Green Hydrogen Project, a proposed development by owner ScottishPower Energy Retail Limited (Glasgow, U.K.; www.scottishpower.com). The contract was awarded to…

KBR awarded FEED contract for ammonia and urea plant in Iraq

KBR, Inc. (Houston) announced that it has been awarded a front-end engineering design (FEED) contract for the development of an ammonia and urea production plant by KAR Electrical Power Production Trading FZE (KEPPT) in Basra, Iraq. Under the terms of…

Tokuyama and OCI form JV for polycrystalline silicon products

Tokuyama Corp. (Tokyo) announced the establishment of  a joint venture (JV) company with OCI TerraSus, a Malaysian subsidiary of the OCI Group (Seoul, South Korea), for the production and sale of semiconductor-grade polycrystalline silicon semi-finished products in Malaysia, to be…

Moeve and Zaffra exploring development of e-SAF facilities in Spain

Moeve (formerly Cepsa; Madrid, Spain) and Zaffra, a joint venture between Sasol and Topsoe, announce the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) that will see the Spanish energy firm and the Amsterdam based e-SAF developer take a step forward…

Mosaic opens new fertilizer facility in Brazil

The Mosaic Co. (Tampa, Fla.) announced that its new fertilizer blending, storage and distribution plant in Palmeirante, Tocantins, Brazil, will begin operations this month.  The plant increases blending capacity and expands Mosaic's presence in the fast-growing northern region of Brazil.…

Wacker commissions new ultra-pure polysilicon plant in Burghausen, Germany

Wacker Chemie AG (Munich, Germany) commissioned its new production line for the manufacture of ultra-pure semiconductor-grade polysilicon at its Burghausen production site in Germany. Accompanied by customers, suppliers and project partners, high-profile figures including Bavaria’s Minister-President Markus Söder and Gitta…