Cabot Corp. (Boston, Ma.) announced the groundbreaking of a new specialty compounds facility in Cilegon, Indonesia. The new facility is co-located with Cabot’s existing carbon black manufacturing site and will add 20,000 metric tons of annual global capacity for specialty…
Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium) and Veolia (Paris) are launching the construction of an industrial energy transition project, "Dombasle Énergie”, which aims to replace coal with refuse-derived fuel (RDF) for the production of clean and competitive energy for the historical Dombasle-sur-Meurthe…
Carbon Sink LLC (Carbon Sink; Annapolis, Md.) announced that it has entered a cooperation agreement with Haldor Topsoe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark) to explore opportunities to develop large-scale eMethanol production facilities in North America based on the Carbon Sink platform and…
The preliminary value for the CE Plant Cost Index (CEPCI) for December 2021 (most recent available) rose compared to the previous month, extending the increases observed throughout 2021. For December 2021, increases in the Equipment and Buildings subindices more than…
ANGUS Chemical Co. (Buffalo Grove, Ill.) announced the expansion of its Sterlington, Louisiana manufacturing facility to include commercial production of Tris Amino Hydrochloride (HCl) products. Tris Amino HCl is widely used as a diagnostic reagent and as a downstream processing buffer…
Westlake Chemical Corp. (Houston) announced that it plans to officially change its name to Westlake Corp., effective on February 18, 2022. Westlake is now organized under one unified brand name with two financial reporting segments: Housing & Infrastructure Products and…
AkzoNobel N.V. (Amsterdam, the Netherlands) plans to invest in the expansion of in-house resin manufacturing as part of the company’s Grow & Deliver strategy. The scale-up program, which is already underway, will help build resilience against supply disruptions while making…
Together with 18 industry partners, DNV AS (Oslo, Norway) is launching a new Joint Industry Project (JIP) to enhance the standardization for reliable, safe and cost-efficient hydrogen production systems that use renewable energy-powered electrolysis to produce green hydrogen. Electrolyzers are…
Technip Energies (Paris) announced it has signed an agreement with Encina Development Group, LLC (Encina) to deliver the Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) of the fluidized bed catalytic pyrolysis reaction section for Encina’s commercial Plastic Fluid Catalytic Cracking (PFCC) unit to…
Teijin Automotive Technologies, the core company of the Teijin Group's automotive composites business, announced that it has begun commercial operation of a new composites manufacturing facility in the Wujin National Hi-Tech Industrial Zone based in Changzhou, Jiangsu province, China. The…