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High-purity pressure gage with reed switch

The 50-mm HPS high-purity pressure gage with reed switch (photo) is ultrasonically cleaned to provide exceptional quality and reliability in ultra-high-purity gas delivery systems. The reed-switch capability provides an additional safety feature through actuating an internal switch that triggers an…

Technology Profile: Production of EPDM Rubber

Ethylene propylene diene monomer (EPDM) rubber is a terpolymer elastomer derived from ethylene and propylene, along with small amounts of a non-conjugated diene as a third monomer (Figure 1). With a completely saturated polymer backbone, this random elastomeric copolymer exhibits…

Compact relay modules for use in hazardous areas

Two new relay modules have been added to this company’s product range for hazardous areas in Zone 1. The series 9174 and 9177 (photo) relay modules enable a.c. and d.c. loads to be switched using the Ex e and Ex…

Baker Hughes, Dussur and Aramco form oilfield-chemicals JV

Baker Hughes (Houston) and Dussur, a firm owned by the Saudi Arabian Public Investment Fund (PIF), Saudi Aramco and SABIC (Saudi Basic Industries Corporation), have signed an agreement to form a joint venture company (JV) focused on providing oilfield and…

MHI Engineering to perform CO2-capture demonstration test at Tokuyama cement plant

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Engineering, Ltd. (MHIENG), a group company of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI; Tokyo), has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Tokuyama Corp. (Tokyo), one of Japan’s leading chemicals/cement manufacturers, on the implementation of a CO2 capture…

Black & Veatch, The Green Solutions sign MoU to advance green hydrogen and ammonia production in Vietnam

Black & Veatch (Overland Park, Kan.) and The Green Solutions (TGS) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to advance the production and supply of green hydrogen and green ammonia in Vietnam. Specializing in renewable energy project development, manufacturing and…

BASF invests in Oceanworks, a sustainable plastic sourcing platform

BASF Venture Capital GmbH (BVC), the corporate venture company of BASF Group, announced a strategic investment in Oceanworks, a sustainable plastic solutions provider that brings traceability and transparency through digitalization to recycled plastics. Oceanworks is based in the U.S. and…

Eastman joins fiber-recycling alliance 4Evergreen

Eastman Chemical Co. (Kingsport, Tenn.) has joined 4evergreen, a cross-industry alliance that focuses on the circularity of fiber-based packaging to contribute to a climate-neutral, sustainable society. The goal of the alliance is to raise the overall recycling rate of fiber-based…

McDermott to supply hydrogen spheres for Plug Power’s green hydrogen plant in NY

McDermott International Inc. (Houston) announced that its storage business, CB&I, will design and build two 500,000-gallon double-wall liquid hydrogen spheres for Plug Power Inc.’s (Latham, N.Y. new green hydrogen production facility in Genesee County, New York. The production facility, leveraging…

Evonik expands capacities for petrochemical specialties

Evonik (Marl, Germany; www.evonik.com) has invested a double-digit million euro sum to increase production capacity for isobutene derivatives at its Marl location. The isobutene part of the C4 production network produces the petrochemical specialties tertiary butanol (TBA), di-isobutene (DiB) and…