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Praj wins order to set up compressed biogas plant for Hindustan Petroleum Corp.

Praj Industries Ltd. (Pune, India) has been awarded a breakthrough project order from Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL) for setting up a Compressed Biogas (CBG) project at Badaun in Uttar Pradesh, India. Praj is offering its first-of-its-kind RenGas technology developed…

BASF doubles acrylic dispersions capacity in Pasir Gudang, Malaysia with new production line

BASF SE  (Ludwigshafen, Germany) started up its new acrylic dispersions production line in Pasir Gudang, Malaysia, doubling its capacity. The state-of-the-art facility will produce acrylic dispersions serving the coatings, construction, adhesives, and packaging industries in Asia Pacific. The new production…

Solvay completes new high-purity hydrogen peroxide plant in Germany

Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium) has built a new Electronic-Grade production facility for high-purity H2O2 at its Bernburg site in Germany. "Developments in society and technology in recent years have reinforced our belief that demand for our product can only grow."…

Hexion sells phenolic resins plant in China

BDA Partners announced that its client, Hexion Inc. (Columbus, Ohio), has sold its China phenolic resins plant to Red Avenue New Materials Group Co Ltd, a publicly listed Chinese company providing diversified new materials for electronics, environmental protection, tire, and auto…

Suez awarded major water-treatment projects in Siberia and Brazil

SUEZ (Paris, France) has signed a contract for a large wastewater treatment project and has been awarded an associated 10-year service agreement with Irkutsk Polymer Plant of Irkutsk Oil Company, one of the largest independent oil and gas producers located…

GET H2: New alliance aims to create the basis of a European infrastructure for green hydrogen

Seven companies from the GET H2 initiative show how rapidly the planning of the national and European hydrogen economy is developing. The consortium wants to build a cross-border infrastructure for hydrogen — from the production of green hydrogen to transport…

DuPont to acquire Laird Performance Materials for $2.3 billion

DuPont (Wilmington, Del.) announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement with Advent International, one of the world’s largest private equity firms, to acquire Laird Performance Materials for $2.3 billion, which will be paid from existing cash balances. The…

Schlumberger New Energy, Chevron and Microsoft collaborate on California bioenergy and carbon-capture project

Schlumberger New Energy, Chevron Corp., Microsoft and Clean Energy Systems announced plans to develop a ground-breaking bioenergy with carbon capture and sequestration (BECCS) project designed to produce carbon negative power in Mendota, California. The BECCS plant will convert agricultural waste…

U.S.-European rare-earth production initiative launched

Neo Performance Materials (Toronto, Ontario, Canada) and Energy Fuels Inc. (Lakewood, Colo.) announced a new rare-earth production initiative spanning European and North American critical material supply chains. The initiative will produce value-added rare earth products from natural monazite sands, a…

Chemours announces project to reduce emissions at Louisville manufacturing site

The Chemours Company (Wilmington, Del.)  announced the implementation of an improvement project to significantly reduce emissions of HFC-23 at its Louisville, Kentucky manufacturing site. The project includes the design, custom-build and installation of proprietary technology to capture at least 99%…