Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.) and its subsidiary Air Products Canada Ltd., in conjunction with the Government of Canada and the Province of Alberta, announced a multi-billion dollar plan to build a landmark new net-zero hydrogen energy complex that will…
Sumitomo Chemical Co. (Tokyo, Japan) has agreed to start studying a possible business alliance with Rever Holdings Corp., a major Japanese integrated recycling company engaged in the management of scrap metal and other recyclable waste from used cars and home…
NextChem, a subsidiary of Maire Tecnimont S.p.A. (Milan, Italy), and Paul Wurth, a company of the SMS Group and leading technology provider for the steel industry, will join forces to promote the combined use of electrolysis and syngas production in the iron and…
Metso Outotec Corp. (Helsinki, Finland) has received an order for the engineering and delivery of key equipment for the expansion of a precious-metals recycling plant. Metso Outotec’s equipment delivery consists of a direct-current (DC) furnace with feeding equipment and process…
Ascend Performance Materials (Houston) has expanded production capacity for HiDura long-chain polyamides in its Greenwood, S.C., plant. The multi-million-dollar expansion will help the company meet growing demand for its new product line. Launched in Nov. 2020, Ascend’s HiDura PA610 and…
Dow (Midland, Mich.) announced plans to build an integrated methylene diphenyl diisocyanate (MDI) distillation and prepolymers facility at its world-scale manufacturing site in Freeport, Texas. This investment supports increasing demand for downstream polyurethane systems products and advances Dow’s leading positions…
MAN Energy Solutions SE (Augsburg, Germany) and the thyssenkrupp business unit Uhde (Dortmund, Germany) are looking to drive forward the development, testing and marketing of autonomous turbomachinery systems operation for the nitric acid production industry and have signed a cooperation…
Bechtel (Reston, Va.) has entered into a partnership with renewable energy company Drax Group to identify opportunities to construct new Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS) power plants around the world. Drax currently has the largest decarbonization project in…
Entegris, Inc. (Billerica, Mass.) announced the expansion of its Life Sciences manufacturing facilities located in Billerica, Mass.; Bloomington, Minn.; and Logan, Utah. The expansions are part of Entegris’ capital expenditures plan to invest approximately $30 million in life sciences capacity…
CP Kelco (Atlanta, Ga.) announced the launch of a new global innovation center, adding to the company's growing network of innovation and technical support facilities around the world. The Atlanta, Georgia-based innovation center is designed as an open, collaborative space…