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Enel Green Power announces plans for Chile’s first green-hydrogen project

Enel Green Power Chile (EGP Chile), a subsidiary of Enel Spa (Rome, Italy), is planning to participate with Chilean power company AME and prospective partners ENAP, Chile’s National Oil Company, Siemens Energy and Porsche, in the installation of a pilot…

Rockwell Automation acquires cybersecurity specialist Oylo

Rockwell Automation, Inc. (Milwaukee, Wisc.) announced that it has acquired Oylo, a privately-held industrial cybersecurity services provider based in Barcelona, Spain. Oylo is dedicated to providing a broad range of industrial control system (ICS) cybersecurity services and solutions including assessments,…

AkzoNobel to build new powder-coatings plant in Taiwan

AkzoNobel (Amsterdam, the Netherlands) announced that it is building a new powder coatings plant in Chungli, Taiwan. The fully automated plant, which represents a €20-million investment, will have the increased production capacity to fulfill growing demand in the architecture, auto…

Material Transfer & Storage expands services offering for bulk-materials handling

Material Transfer & Storage (MTS; Allegan, Mich.), an industry leader in the custom design and manufacture of bulk material filling, conditioning and discharging systems for dry powders and bulk solids, has unveiled a new service line to further enhance the customer…

Carbon8 to deploy CO2-capture pilot project at Dutch waste-to-energy plant

Carbon8 Systems, a U.K.-based company that invented and owns a process that combines industrial waste residues with captured CO₂ emissions, will be running its first Energy from Waste (EfW) pilot project in The Netherlands. Carbon8 System’s accelerated carbonation process produces…

Why Control-Loop Optimization is More Important Than Ever

From the impact of globalization to variable crude oil prices, environmental concerns and changes due to advancing technology, the chemical process industries (CPI) are in a state of flux. Companies based in some regions have experienced impressive growth thanks to…

Emerson agrees to acquire Italian IIoT firm Progea Group

Emerson (St. Louis, Mo.) announced it has completed the acquisition of the Progea Group, an industry-leading provider of industrial internet of things (IIoT), plant analytics, human machine interface (HMI) and supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) technologies. The addition of…

Cargill and Virent join forces to evaluate bio-based fuels and chemicals technology

Biobased fuels and chemicals play a critical role in meeting the increasing global demand for more environmentally friendly sources of energy and plastics to make clothing, electronics, packaging, and building materials. To explore the production of these renewable resources, Cargill…

LyondellBasell purchases $2-billion stake in Sasol’s Lake Charles project; forms integrated polyethylene JV

LyondellBasell (Rotterdam, the Netherlands) and Sasol Ltd. (Johannesburg, South Africa) announced they have entered into a definitive agreement to form a 50/50 joint venture (JV) through which LyondellBasell will acquire 50% of Sasol’s 1.5-million-ton ethane cracker, 900,000-ton low and linear-low…

Black & Veatch joins Center for Hydrogen Safety

Hydrogen applications are emerging as a low-carbon breakthrough that will transform the power generation market amidst the rapidly changing energy landscape. As a leader in innovative infrastructure solutions, Black & Veatch (B&V; Overland Park, Kan.) announced it has joined the…