With plans to commercialize High Resolution De-bondable Panel (HRDP), a special glass carrier for next-generation semiconductor packaging devices, Mitsui Mining & Smelting Co., Ltd. (Mitsui Kinzoku; Tokyo) has been working toward the establishment of a system for mass production in…
Chevron Phillips Chemical, LP (CPChem; The Woodlands, Tex.) announced two significant developments in its advanced-recycling program, which converts waste plastics into circular polyethylene. Since introducing Marlex Anew Circular Polyethylene in October, the company has received certification through the International Sustainability…
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…
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 (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…
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 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 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 (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 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…