BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) and KaMin LLC. / CADAM S.A. (KaMin) have signed an agreement to sell BASF’s kaolin minerals business to KaMin, a global performance minerals company headquartered in Macon, Georgia, United States. Currently, the kaolin minerals business is…
Lummus Technology (Houston) announced an award for a C4 acetylenes selective hydrogenation unit (AHU) from Korea Petrochemical Ind. Co. Ltd. (KPIC). The unit will be part of an expansion to KPIC's Onsan Chemical Plant in Ulsan, Republic of Korea. "With this…
Arxada AG (Basel, Switzerland) announced that it will invest CHF 20 million in its industrial biotechnological plant in Kouřim, Czech Republic, which serves the contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) part of its Specialty Products Solutions business. This investment provides…
Neste Corp. (Espoo, Finland) announced that the EU Innovation Fund has given a positive grant decision of €88-million funding to Neste’s green hydrogen and CO2 capture & storage project, which aims to quickly and efficiently reduce greenhouse gas emissions at…
Icelandic hydrogen and ammonia company Green Fuel and Haldor Topsoe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), which will see the companies partnering to identify efficient and scalable technologies for the production of green ammonia in Iceland. The…
SK Innovation and Energy (Seoul, South Korea) has selected Honeywell UOP (Des Plaines, Ill.) for a feasibility study to retrofit SK’s hydrogen plant with carbon capture. SK will explore capturing and sequestering 400,000 tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) from existing…
Kemira Oyj (Helsinki, Finland) announced the final completion of their production capacity expansion in the U.K. From November 15th, the annual production of ferric-based water-treatment chemicals in Goole will be increased by more than 100,000 tons annually. Already in January…
DuPont (Wilmington, Del.) announced that it is breaking ground on its new $30-million facility that will produce a range of materials to advance applications for electrification and lightweighting in support of growing demand for its automotive adhesives. The new facility…
Gevo, Inc. (Englewood, Colo.) announced that it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Sweetwater Energy, Inc. (Rochester N.Y.) regarding the use of sustainably sourced agricultural residues and woody biomass as a feedstock for producing cellulosic alcohols and energy-dense…
Heliogen, Inc. (Pasadena, Calif.) and Bloom Energy Corp. (San Jose, Calif.) announced the generation of green hydrogen by integrating the companies’ technologies – Heliogen’s concentrated solar energy system and the Bloom Electrolyzer. The successful demonstration in Lancaster, California produced hydrogen…