Asahi Songwon Colors Ltd. (Gujarat, India) commenced commercial operations at the Dahej, India plant operated by its joint venture with Tennants Textile Colours Ltd., Asahi Tennants Color. The Dahej plant will produce red and yellow pigments. The installed capacity at…
BASF SE(Ludwigshafen, Germany) and Eramet Group (Paris, France) have signed an agreement to jointly assess the development of a state-of-the-art nickel and cobalt hydrometallurgical refining complex. Such a development would include a High-Pressure Acid Leaching (HPAL) plant and a Base…
Agilyx Corp. (Tigard, Ore.) and Braskem S.A. (Philadelphia, Pa.) announced the initiation of a feasibility study to explore the development and construction of an advanced plastics recycling project in North America. The project aims to examine an efficient pathway to…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) announced that the implementation of the methylene diphenyl diisocyanate (MDI) capacity increase program for production facilities at the company’s Verbund site in Geismar, Louisiana, is progressing on schedule. Over time, BASF targets to double the capacity…
To meet accelerating demand for robust clinical supply chain services throughout Europe, Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (Waltham, Mass.) has expanded its pharma services footprint with two new state-of-the-art facilities in Rheinfelden and Weil am Rhein, Germany. The new sites will…
KBR, Inc. (Houston) announced that it has been awarded a contract for an ammonia synthesis loop (synloop) by Monolith Materials (Lincoln, Neb.) for its fertilizer project in Hallam, Nebraska. Under the terms of the contract, KBR will provide a technology…
Borealis Group AG (Vienna, Austria) and Bionerga announced the joint commissioning of Biostoom, a new waste-to-energy plant constructed and operated by Bionerga in Beringen, Belgium. The long-term agreement between Borealis and Bionerga, a Belgium-based specialist in recovering energy from waste,…
Sumitomo Chemical Co. (Tokyo, Japan) and Axens (Rueil-Malmaison, France) signed a license agreement of ethanol-to-ethylene technology Atol for Sumitomo Chemical’s waste-to-polyolefins project in Japan. In the project Axens’ Atol technology will transform ethanol produced from waste into polymer-grade ethylene that…
Grön Fuels, LLC has selected Haldor Topsoe’s (Lyngby, Denmark) HydroFlex renewable fuels and H2bridge bio-hydrogen technologies with bio-carbon capture and sequestration option for a multi-billion low-carbon-intensity complex in Louisiana. The new facility, located at the Port of Greater Baton Rouge,…
Air Liquide Engineering & Construction has signed an agreement with Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction (Seoul, South Korea) to support the construction of a liquid hydrogen plant in Changwon, South Korea as an enabler of clean transport development in the…