Ingevity Corp. (North Charleston, S.C.) and Ozinga Energy have announced a partnership to begin a field demonstration of adsorbed natural gas (ANG) bi-fuel pickup trucks. Developed by Adsorbed Natural Gas Products, Inc. and Ingevity, the ANG system is made possible…
Maire Tecnimont S.p.A. (Milan, Italy) announced that its subsidiary Tecnimont S.p.A., as majority leader of the consortium including MT Russia LLC, Sinopec Engineering Inc. and Sinopec Engineering Group Co., Ltd Russian Branch, has signed an EPSS contract (Engineering, Procurement and…
Linde (Guildford, U.K.) has started up a syngas processing plant in Geismar, Louisiana. The new plant will supply carbon monoxide and hydrogen to a top global chemical company, as well as other refining and chemical customers along Linde's hydrogen pipeline…
In recent years, the Rembe Safety Days series of events has repeatedly made Brilon, Germany a meeting place for global explosion safety and process safety. The content of the events was to present and discuss current topics in these areas,…
The growing circular economy in the chemical and plastics industry requires alternative raw material sources beyond crude oil, which urgently need to be further researched. Industrial electrochemistry can make a significant contribution to the development of new raw material sources…
Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany) today announced the €25-million first stage of a long-term program to expand the capacity of its Dossenheim and Hanau facilities in Germany to support growing pharmaceutical demand for the contract manufacturing of active pharmaceutical ingredients…
CNOOC Huizhou Petrochemical Company Limited (CHPCL) has selected Axens’ (Rueil-Malmaison, France) ParamaX Technology Suite for its petrochemical complex expansion in Daya Bay, China. The project aims at increasing CHPCL’s high-purity aromatics production capacity to 3,000,000 ton/yr. The new aromatics complex…
Hermetic Pumps, Inc. (Houston, Texas) has announced the appointment of Andreas Schmidt as their new Sales Manager for North America. Hermetic Pumps VP Peter Koegl stated, “Andreas comes to us with a wealth of experience in the pump industry, as…
INEOS (London, U.K.) has built two new hand sanitizer plants in the U.S. to provide hand sanitizer to hospitals for free. The facilities will be located in Jacksonville, near Little Rock Arkansas and Neville Island in Pennsylvania. Each site will…
Aemetis, Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.) announced that it has commenced deliveries under a long-term agreement with Messer Group to supply carbon dioxide (CO2) to a newly-constructed, state-of-the-art CO2 plant located adjacent to the Aemetis ethanol plant. This week, the Aemetis 65…