Maire Tecnimont S.p.A. (Milan, Italy) announced that its subsidiary NextChem and Acciaierie d'Italia, Italy’s largest steel company, jointly owned by Arcelor Mittal and Invitalia, have reached an agreement for a feasibility study to use circular gas (syngas) in the Taranto steel mill. This circular gas…
Haldor Topsoe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark) will deliver Blue Ammonia technology for Air Products’ landmark $4.5 billion clean energy complex in Louisiana. Air Products’ megaproject, which will produce over 750 million standard cubic feet per day of blue hydrogen. A portion…
Technip Energies (Paris) and Shell Catalysts & Technologies announced that their jointly developed improvements on the Cansolv CO2 Capture technology are being tested in a pilot plant campaign at Fortum Oslo Varme’s Waste to Energy plant. In response to the…
Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany) has expanded its production capacity for organic dispersions used for heat sealing applications. Since the beginning of August, a significantly expanded plant at the Darmstadt site has been supplying additional material. The specialty chemicals company…
The preliminary value for the CE Plant Cost Index (CEPCI) for August 2021 (most recent available) is once again higher than the previous month, continuing a string of substantial monthly increases since the beginning of the year. In August, the…
Lanxess AG (Cologne, Germany) is expanding its production capacity for light-color aminic antioxidants at its Taiwan site by several kilo tons. The specialty chemicals company is investing an upper single-digit million Euro amount to expand its facility in response to…
Milliken & Co. (Spartanburg, S.C.) has formally acquired Encapsys, LLC, a world leader in microencapsulation, from the Cypress Performance Group LLC (“Cypress”). The transaction officially closed October 18, 2021. “Moving the needle on sustainability requires big thinking and powerful collaborations.…
Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium) announced several investment efforts to advance its work to develop the next-generation of solid-state electrolytes for batteries. On the ground, investments started with the opening earlier this year of a dry room laboratory in Solvay’s research center near…
Clariant (Muttenz, Switzerland) announced the official completion of its sunliquid cellulosic ethanol plant in Podari, Romania. The completed construction is an important next step for the commercial deployment of sunliquid technology and thus supports Clariant’s sunliquid licensing business strategy. The…
Metso Outotec Corp. (Helsinki, Finland) has signed an agreement with the Canadian battery materials company First Cobalt Corporation to deliver Planet Positive solvent extraction technology to their cobalt refinery expansion in Ontario. The value of the order is approximately EUR 10 million,…