Messer Group GmbH (Bad Soden, Germany) announced the construction of a new production plant for gases at its Spanish location in Vila-seca. It will be located in the south of the Tarragona Chemical Complex and will have a capacity of…
Total Lubrifiants, the world’s fourth-largest international lubricants company, announces the acquisition of Lubrilog SAS. Lubrilog SAS is a French company, based in Romans sur Isère, specialized in the formulation and production of very high-performance synthetic lubricants. The high-quality products of…
Lummus Technology, LLC (Houston) announced that it has been awarded a contract for technology licensing, process design package, training and advisory services, and proprietary catalyst and equipment supply by Duqm Refinery and Petrochemical Industries Company LLC (DRPIC), a joint venture…
BASF’s (Ludwishafen, Germany) Global Business Services unit is being further developed. The division was established as of January 1, 2020, as part of the implementation of BASF’s corporate strategy. As of that date, around 8,400 employees worldwide transferred to Global…
ExxonMobil Corp. (Irving, Tex.) and Global Thermostat have expanded their joint development agreement following 12 months of technical evaluation to determine the feasibility and potential scalability of Global Thermostat’s technology that captures carbon dioxide (CO2) directly from the air. “ExxonMobil’s…
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…