Honeywell UOP (Des Plaines, Ill.) announced today that Hengli Petrochemical Co. Ltd. successfully started up seven UOP Polybed pressure swing adsorption (PSA) units supplying high-purity hydrogen at its complex in Dalian, Liaoning, China. As a fully integrated site, the complex…
Cemex, S.A.B. de C.V. (Monterrey, Mexico) announced that through CEMEX Ventures, its Corporate Venture Capital unit, it has signed an agreement with Carbon Clean (London, U.K.), a leader in low-cost modular carbon dioxide capture and separation technology, aimed at developing…
Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany) and Siemens Energy commissioned a pilot plant sponsored by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) that uses carbon dioxide and water to produce chemicals. The necessary energy is supplied by electricity from…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) is to invest €16 million into Pyrum Innovations AG, a technology company specialized in the pyrolysis of waste tires, headquartered in Dillingen/Saar, Germany. With the investment, BASF will support the expansion of Pyrum’s pyrolysis plant in…
Yokogawa Electric Corp. (Tokyo, Japan) revealed the results of a global end-user survey on the outlook for industrial autonomy, which shows that 64% of respondents from companies in process industries are anticipating fully autonomous operations by 2030. The survey provides…
Svante, Inc. (Burnaby, B.C., Canada;) has selected Kiewit Engineering Group Inc. to provide engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) services for two DOE funded carbon capture projects. On September 1, the United States Department of Energy’s National Energy Laboratory Technology (DOE-NETL)…
Thermo Fisher Scientific (Waltham, Mass.) announced it is investing more than $140 million to further expand its laboratory plastics consumables production to support significant global demand for COVID-19 testing, as well as development and manufacturing of therapies and vaccines. "Early…
ALPLA Group (Hard, Austria) is building a plant in Mexico for recycling high-density polyethylene (HDPE). It is planned to produce 15,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr) of post-consumer recycled material. ALPLA has acquired a property in Toluca, capital city of…
thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions AG (Essen, Germany) recently won another order to build a bioplastics plant based on the patented PLAneo technology. It will be built in South China and will produce 30,000 tons/yr of polylactide (PLA). PLA is a compostable…
ANDRITZ Separation was among the first to introduce fluidized bed technology for use in industrial drying – a drying method achieving the requested polymer product quality in an efficient process. Petrochemical and polymer producers have installed more than 1,000 of…