LG Energy Solution and Toyota Tsusho Corp. announced the establishment of Green Metals Battery Innovations, LLC, a joint venture company focused on battery recycling. Under the agreement signed by LG Energy Solution Michigan and Toyota Tsusho America, the two partners…
Nuada (Newtownabbey, Northern Ireland) has successfully completed the trial of its second pilot plant, Nuada Scout, at the University of Sheffield. Designed, built and commissioned in under a year, the industrial pilot plant has been capturing carbon dioxide from biomass-derived…
Thyssenkrupp nucera AG & Co. KGaA (Dortmund, Germany) has received a new technology order for a chlor-alkali expansion project. Chemical Marketing and Distribution Company (CMDC), part of Basic Chemical Industries Company (BCI), has commissioned thyssenkrupp nucera to implement the next…
Borouge Plc is collaborating with Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.) to conduct a proof of concept for AI-powered autonomous operations, which has the potential to revolutionize Borouge’s UAE plant operations. The collaboration between Borouge and Honeywell is set to deliver…
Aquatech (Canonsburg, Pa.) has been selected as the desalination technology partner for Corpus Christi’s Inner Harbor Water Treatment Campus. When complete, it will be the third largest seawater desalination plant in the Americas, and the first of its kind in…
The preliminary value for the CE Plant Cost Index (CEPCI) for April 2025 (most recent available) rose slightly compared to the previous month’s value. The final value for March 2025 was downwardly revised. The uptick in the April CEPCI was…
SunHydrogen, Inc. (Coralville, Iowa), the developer of a breakthrough technology to produce renewable hydrogen using sunlight and water, announced a major milestone in the advancement of its proprietary photoelectrochemical (PEC) hydrogen production technology. In a new strategic collaboration, SunHydrogen will…
Kemira Oyj (Helsinki, Finland) and Shanghai Bluepha Microbiology Technology Co., Ltd. (Bluepha), a leading synthetic biotech company, have agreed on a three-year strategic collaboration to promote the large-scale application of PHA (polyhydroxyalkanoate) in fully bio-based barrier coatings for paper, board…
Saipem SpA (Milan, Italy; www.saipem.com) has been awarded a front-end engineering design (FEED) contract by Sonatrach Petroleum (London, U.K.; www.sonatrach.co.uk), related to the phosphate integrated project for fertilizer production in Algeria. The contract was awarded through a competitive dual FEED…
Wood plc (Aberdeen, U.K.; www.woodplc.com) has been awarded a contract by Colombia's majority state-owned oil company, Ecopetrol, to deliver the detailed engineering design for upgrades at its Barrancabermeja refinery in Colombia. The project, known as Línea Base de Calidad de…