Perstorp AB (Malmö, Sweden) has celebrated the opening of a facility that will enable wastewater from the water treatment plant run by the municipality to be further purified and reused for cooling at the Perstorp Oxo production plant in Stenungsund.…
CF Industries Holdings, Inc. (Deerfield, Ill.) and JERA Co., Inc. (Tokyo) , Japan’s largest energy company, announced that they have executed a joint development agreement (JDA) to explore the development of greenfield low-carbon ammonia production capacity at CF Industries’ Blue…
Arkema S.A. (Colombes, France) has signed an agreement to acquire a majority stake of nearly 78% in Proionic, a leading startup in the production and development of ionic liquids, which are key components for the next generation of lithium-ion batteries.…
In its efforts to advance chemical recycling, Neste Corp. (Espoo, Finland) has successfully conducted its first processing trial run with a new challenging raw material, liquefied discarded tires. In the processing run, Neste produced high-quality raw material for new plastics…
Auburn University’s McCrary Institute for Cyber and Critical Infrastructure Security (Auburn, Ala.; eng.auburn.edu/mccrary) was awarded a $10 million Department of Energy grant in partnership with Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL; Oak Ridge, Tenn.; www.ornl.gov) to create a pilot regional cybersecurity…
Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium) announced the opening of its Alve-One production unit in Rosignano, Italy. This marks a new milestone with the launch of a significant European production facility for Alve-One, a chemical blowing agent eco-designed to transform the thermoplastic foaming…
Linde plc (Guilford, U.K.) announced that its subsidiary White Martins will build, own and operate a second electrolyzer to produce green hydrogen for the southeast region of Brazil. The five-megawatt pressurized alkaline electrolyzer plant will be located next to the…
At €24.3 billion, incoming orders booked in Germany by the members of the VDMA Large-scale Plant Engineering Group (AGAB; Frankfurt am Main) in Germany in 2023 were 15.7% higher than in the previous year (2022: €21.0 billion). This figure represents…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany), SABIC (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) and Linde plc (Guildford, U.K.) have inaugurated the world’s first demonstration plant for large-scale electrically heated steam cracking furnaces. Following three years of development, engineering, and construction work, the regular operation of…
Vitol (Geneva, Switzerland) announced the acquisition of renewable energy company, BioMethane Partners, to form Vitol BioMethane (VBM). VBM is a Texas-based landfill-gas-to-energy company, whose leadership has more than 100 years of combined experience in designing, building, and operating gas collection…