Clariant (Muttenz, Switzerland) has signed a license agreement with Harbin Hulan Sino-Dan Jianye Bio-Energy (www.zdjygroup.com) for Clariant'c sunliquid cellulosic-ethanol technology. Harbin Hulan Sino-Dan Jianye Bio-Energy, a subsidiary of the Sino-Dan Jianye Group was formed in the early 2010s and has…
An international private-equity consortium consisting of BroadPeak Global LP, Asia Green Fund (AGF) and The Saudi Arabian Industrial Investments Company (Dussur) announced that they have signed a definitive agreement whereby the Group will purchase the Clean Technologies business of DuPont…
Hengyi Industries Sdn. Bhd., has selected Univation Technologies’ (Houston) UNIPOL PE Process for its world-scale 600,000-ton/yr polyethylene (PE) plant to be located in Palau Muara Besar, Brunei. The new PE plant will be integrated into a larger refinery and petrochemicals…
A network of regional hydrogen technology clusters has today been unveiled across Australia, as part of a drive to establish a nationwide hydrogen cluster. Spearheaded by National Energy Resources Australia (NERA), the national cluster (which would operate as a virtual…
Volkswagen Group Components opened the Group’s first plant for recycling electric car batteries in Salzgitter, Germany. As pilot operation commences, the Volkswagen Group takes another committed step towards sustainable end-to-end responsibility for the entire value chain of the electric vehicle…
Lukoil (Moscow, Russia) has commissioned a new production complex at its Volgograd Refinery. Presidential Plenipotentiary Envoy to the Southern Federal District Vladimir Ustinov, Russian Minister of Energy Nikolai Shulginov, Governor of the Volgograd region Andrei Bocharov and President of LUKOIL…
Stepan Co. (Northfield, Ill.) announced that it has purchased Invista's (Wichita, Kan.) aromatic polyester polyol business and associated assets. Included in the transaction are two manufacturing sites, one in Wilmington, NC (United States) and the other in Vlissingen (the Netherlands), and…
Eastman Chemical Co. (Kingsport, Tenn.) CEO Mark Costa and Tennessee Governor Bill Lee announced the company's plans to build one of the world's largest plastic-to-plastic molecular recycling facilities at its site in Kingsport, Tenn. Through methanolysis, this world-scale facility will…
In a report 1 issued by the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE; www.aceee.org), one of the key summary points is that industrial decarbonization is essential to fighting climate change. The report states that the industrial sector accounts for…
Area electrical classification is a powerful tool for process safety. It is not, however, the only viable approach to a safe process Electrically classifying an area is a long-standing safety measure in the petrochemical and related industries. It is also…