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Consortium exploring green-hydrogen production hub in Orkney, Scotland

Offshore Wind Power Limited (OWPL), the consortium formed by Macquarie’s Green Investment Group, TotalEnergies and Scottish developer Renewable Infrastructure Development Group (RIDG) has announced it is studying the use of offshore wind to power the production of green hydrogen on…

KBR awarded nitric acid technology contract by Hanwha

KBR, Inc. (Houston) announced today it has been awarded a dual-pressure nitric acid technology contract by Hanwha Corp. for its new plant at Yeosu, South Korea. Under the terms of the contract, KBR will provide license, basic engineering design, and…

MilliporeSigma opens second manufacturing facility in Carlsbad, Calif.

 MilliporeSigma, the U.S. and Canada Life Science business of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, announced the opening of its second Carlsbad, California-based facility, significantly expanding its global CDMO footprint. This new $110 million, 140,000-square foot facility will more than double the company’s existing…

Haldor Topsoe starts up sustainable methanol demonstration plant in Denmark

Haldor Topsoe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark) has begun operating a demonstration plant for production of sustainable Methanol production from biogas. With the demonstration plant, Topsoe will validate its electrified technology for cost-competitive production of sustainable methanol from biogas as well as…

Evonik and Wynca start up joint fumed-silica plant in China

The joint venture between Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany) and the Chinese company Wynca - Evonik Wynca (Zhenjiang) Silicon Material Co., Ltd. is starting up its new fumed-silica plant. Located in the Zhenjiang New Material Industry Park in Jiangsu province,…

Angus Chemical to expand production capacity for tromethamine buffers

ANGUS Chemical Co. (Buffalo Grove, Ill.), a global manufacturer and marketer of specialty ingredients and consumables for biotechnology, pharmaceutical, consumer and industrial applications, announced plans to expand U.S. production capacity for its complete portfolio of TRIS AMINO tromethamine buffers. ANGUS…

Ingevity to raise caprolactone monomer production capacity in the U.K.

Ingevity Corp. (North Charleston, W.V.) announced that it will increase caprolactone monomer capacity at its facility in Warrington, U.K., through a series of optimization projects over the next 12 months that are expected to increase Ingevity’s global monomer production capacity…

BP to supply raw materials to Lanxess for renewable plastics production

Lanxess AG (Cologne, Germany) and energy company bp plc (London) are entering into a strategic partnership for the use of sustainable raw materials in high-tech plastics production. bp will supply sustainably produced cyclohexane to Lanxess’ production site in Antwerp, Belgium,…

Monolith Materials and SK Inc. sign MOU to scale up clean hydrogen production

Monolith Materials (Lincoln, Neb.) announced it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with SK Inc. (Seoul, South Korea) to pursue a joint venture for producing clean hydrogen and carbon black products in South Korea. Monolith currently produces clean hydrogen and carbon…

BASF Petronas Chemicals increases production capacity for 2-ethylhexanoic acid in Malaysia

BASF Petronas Chemicals Sdn Bhd (BPC), a joint venture between BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) and PETRONAS Chemicals Group Berhad (PCG; Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia), intends to expand the production capacity of 2-Ethylhexanoic Acid (2-EHA) from 30,000 to 60,000 metric tons per…