BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) announced the expansion of its Seneca, South Carolina, Platinum Group Metals (PGM) refining facility. The company will invest double-digit millions in capital improvements to increase refining capacity to recycle precious metals from spent catalysts such as…
Nouryon (Amsterdam, the Netherlands) has begun the engineering phase at its Expancel expandable microspheres plant in Wisconsin, moving one step closer to better serving its specialty additives customers in North America. Construction on the plant is expected to begin at…
Elkem (Oslo, Norway) has successfully commissioned its industrial pilot for battery materials in Kristiansand, Norway, starting industrial scale pilot production for customers. As the next step towards large-scale production, Elkem is now establishing Vianode as a new company and brand…
Honeywell International, Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.) announced that Numaligarh Refinery Limited (NRL), a public sector undertaking under the Indian Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, will use UOP technology to produce cleaner-burning diesel fuel in compliance with India’s BS-VI emission standards…
Alfa Laval AB (Lund, Sweden) has signed a partner agreement with EasyMining, an innovation company in the Swedish Ragn-Sells Group, to develop new processes and technologies to extract commercially valuable products from waste materials and enable circular solutions. Alfa…
Keppel Data Centres Holdings Pte Ltd, Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd., Linde Gas Singapore Pte Ltd. Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd (MOL) and Vopak LNG Holding B.V (Vopak LNG) have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to jointly explore the concept…
Technip Energies (Paris) has signed its first catalyst supply agreement with LanzaJet, Inc. (Chicago, Ill.), a sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) producer, for its proprietary Hummingbird ethanol-to-ethylene catalyst. LanzaJet’s SAF delivers more than 70% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions on a…
Mitsui Chemicals, Inc. (Tokyo) started the commercial production of a new plant to produce LUCANT, a series of hydrocarbon-based synthetic fluid, at its Ichihara Works in Ichihara, Chiba Prefecture. With this new plant coming on top of an existing plant…
LanzaTech (Skokie, Ill.; www.lanzatech.com) and BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) have achieved a key first success in transforming industrial off-gases into chemicals. With the help of special bacteria, they have been able to produce n-octanol at laboratory scale from carbon monoxide…
Yara International ASA (Oslo, Norway) and JERA Co., Inc. (Tokyo), Japan’s largest power generation company, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to collaborate on the production, delivery and supply chain development for blue and green ammonia, to enable zero-emission thermal…