Borealis Group AG (Vienna, Austria) and Axens (Rueil-Malmaison, France) have recently signed a license agreement for the Rewind Mix process in order to purify and upgrade 50,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr) of pyrolysis oils produced from plastics wastes at…
Nel ASA (Oslo, Norway) has opened a new automated electrolyzerplant at Herøya, which is contributing to unlocking new application areas where green hydrogen is the best or only option for decarbonizing. The secret is scale-up and automation, which is lowering…
KBR, Inc. (Houston) announced that it has been awarded a 7-year contract with an option to extend for another 3 years, for the provision of General Maintenance Services (GMS) by Saudi Aramco TOTAL Refining and Petrochemical Company (SATORP), for its…
Royal DSM N.V. (Herleen, the Netherlands) has reached an agreement to sell its Protective Materials business to Avient Corp. (Cleveland, Ohio) for an Enterprise Value of €1.44 billion. The proposed transaction includes all of DSM’s Protective Materials activities, chiefly consisting…
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (Waltham, Mass.) announced the opening of its new single-use technology manufacturing site in Ogden, Utah. The state-of-the-art facility creates additional capacity to produce the high-quality technology and materials needed for the development of new vaccines and…
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 —…
Sekisui Chemical Co. (Osaka, Japan) and INCJ, Ltd. announced the completion of a waste-to-ethanol demonstration plant in Kuji City, Iwate, Japan. This plant represents a significant opportunity for creating sustainable feedstocks used in the manufacture of other products from waste…
JERA Co., Inc. (Tokyo) and Sumitomo Chemical Co. (Tokyo, Japan) have received notice that their grant application, under the Green Innovation Fund program of the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO), to conduct a project to develop a…
ExxonMobil Corp. (Houston) is undertaking early front-end engineering design studies (pre-FEED) to determine the potential for carbon capture and storage (CCS) to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from multiple industries in the Gippsland Basin. The South East Australia carbon capture and…
TotalEnergies (Paris) and ENEOS Corp. (Tokyo, Japan) announced a collaboration to jointly conduct a feasibility study to assess the production of Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) in ENEOS Negishi Refinery in Yokohama city, Japan. The companies have already started to conduct…