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Lynas announces plans to build rare-earth separation plant in Texas

Lynas Rare Earths Ltd. (East Perth, Australia) has entered into an agreement with the United States Government to build a commercial Light Rare Earths separation plant in the United States, through the company’s wholly owned subsidiary, Lynas USA LLC. This…

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Shell and Vattenfall to collaborate on Hamburg green-hydrogen project

Royal Dutch Shell plc (Shell; The Hagues, the Netherlands), Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI; Tokyo), Vattenfall AB (Stockholm, Sweden) and municipal company Wärme Hamburg are planning a pathway to jointly produce hydrogen from wind and solar power at the Hamburg-Moorburg…

Baker Hughes to provide digital technologies for Petrobras sites in Brazil

Baker Hughes (Houston) announced an order with Petrobras to provide a suite of digital solutions across Petrobras sites in Brazil. The order, booked in the fourth quarter 2020, will further expand Petrobras’ digital capabilities following a third quarter 2020 order…

DSM adds Maag pelletizing lines for compounding-plant expansion in Indiana

 MAAG Group, part of Dover, announced that it has been selected by Royal DSM N.V. (Herleen, the Netherlands) to supply them with several automatic strand pelletizing lines (Jet Stream Granulation System – JSG) for the extensive modernization and expansion of their…

Solvay to use blockchain technology for supply-chain tracing

Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium) has begun testing blockchain technology to trace its products throughout the entire value chain, in a drive to facilitate recycling and develop the circular economy. As part of the European Union-funded Chemchain project, the Group will…

Sumitomo begins work on renewable hydrogen projects in Australia and Oman

Sumitomo Corp. (Tokyo) and JGC Corp. (Yokohama, Japan) which operates the overseas engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) business of the JGC Group, have signed a Front-End Engineering and Design (FEED) contract for the hydrogen-related project planned by Sumitomo Corp. in…

Hanwha Solutions acquires hydrogen-tank specialist Cimarron Composites

Hanwha Solutions (Seoul, South Korea) announced that it signed a deal to acquire a 100% stake in Cimarron Composites, an American high-pressure tank manufacturer. Cimarron Composites originally began as an internal venture at NASA in 2008 by Tom DeLay, 23-year…

Trammo and Proton Ventures sign MoU for cooperation on green ammonia projects

Trammo DMCC, a subsidiary of Trammo, Inc., a leading global commodities merchandising and trading company, and Proton Ventures BV, an engineering company in the Netherlands specialized in ammonia technology, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for joint cooperation on green…

Bilfinger wins EPCM contract for Clariant’s advanced biofuels plant in Romania

Bilfinger SE (Mannheim, Germany) has been commissioned by Clariant AG (Muttenz, Switzerland) to deliver EPCM (engineering, procurement, overall project and construction management) services for the construction of their commercial-scale cellulosic ethanol production plant using Clariant’s sunliquid technology in southwest Romania.…

McDermott awarded liquid-hydrogen storage study

McDermott International, Ltd. (Houston) announced that its CB&I Storage Solutions business has been awarded a study by a leading natural gas producer to research opportunities to expand current liquid hydrogen storage capacity limits. "Industry leaders across the energy spectrum recognize…