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AkzoNobel installs solar-power systems at manufacturing plants in Mexico and Spain

Thousands of solar panels have been installed at two AkzoNobel (Amsterdam, the Netherlands) sites on two continents as the company continues to accelerate towards its ambition of cutting carbon emissions in half by 2030. The two recent projects have been…

Aspen Technology acquires industrial analytics provider in Norway

Aspen Technology, Inc. (Bedford, Mass.) it has acquired Camo Analytics AS, a leading provider of industrial analytics based in Norway. The technology and expertise acquired with Camo Analytics will further strengthen AspenTech’s solutions to drive higher levels of performance, profitability…

Mitsubishi Chemical to divest light metals business

Mitsubishi Chemical Corp. (MCC; Tokyo) has concluded a framework agreement with Konfoong Materials International Co., Ltd. (Yuyao, Zhejiang, China) and KFMI Group company TCPR (Shanghai) Electro-Mechanical High-Tech Co. for the transfer of MCC’s light metal products business. KFMI and TCPR…

Lummus Digital joint venture Formed by Lummus Technology and TCG

Lummus Technology (Houston) and TCG Digital announced that the companies have formed a joint venture called Lummus Digital. The joint venture will work with Lummus' existing customers and potential customers to implement digital analysis and operative solutions to their refining,…

Origin Energy to investigate export-scale green-hydrogen project in Tasmania

Origin Energy (Sydney, Australia) will conduct a $3.2 million feasibility study into building an export scale green hydrogen and ammonia plant in Tasmania’s Bell Bay. Under the proposal, green hydrogen will be produced from sustainable water using renewable energy. The…

Ineos Styrolution and Ferrero to collaborate on recycling of complex plastic waste

INEOS Styrolution (Frankfurt, Germany) announced an agreement with Ferrero to explore the feasibility of using its advanced recycling concepts such as depolymerization for future packaging solutions. The aim of INEOS Styrolution is to develop a process to convert complex plastic…

Vitol partners with Wastefront to market liquid hydrocarbons made from recycled tires

Vitol (Geneva, Switzerland)and Wastefront AS, the Norwegian waste tire recycling company, announced a 10-year offtake agreement for the production of liquid hydrocarbons and certain non-liquid products due to be produced at Wastefront’s first waste tire recycling plant in Sunderland, on…

Toray wins desalination orders in Bahrain and UAE

Toray Industries, Inc. (Tokyo, Japan) has been awarded orders to supply reverse osmosis (RO) membranes for the Al Dur 2 Desalination Plant in the Kingdom of Bahrain and the Umm Al Quwain Desalination Plant in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).…

Cummins to open new H2 fuel-cell production facility in Germany

Cummins Inc. (Columbus, Ind.) announced it will open a new facility in Herten, Germany, which will initially focus on the assembly of fuel cell systems for global transportation leader Alstom’s hydrogen trains.   The company already has alternative power facilities located…

Black & Veatch joins Ammonia Energy Association

Black & Veatch (B&V; Overland Park, Kan.) has joined the Ammonia Energy Association, an influential advocate of responsible ammonia use in a sustainable energy economy. As an industry leader in advancing decarbonization, Black & Veatch – experts in ammonia-related projects…