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Significant progress toward hydrogen-compatible microturbines

Capstone Turbine Corporation (Van Nuys, Calif.) announced that through a collaboration with the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory, it has achieved significant progress in the development of a hydrogen-operable microturbine product. Development testing performed at Argonne demonstrates that…

Aveva to acquire OSIsoft for $5 billion

Industrial software firms Aveva Group plc (Cambridge, U.K.) and OSIsoft (San Leandro, Calif.), have announced an agreement for Aveva to acquire OSIsoft for $5.0 billion. Aveva and OSIsoft will combine their complementary product offerings, bringing together industrial software and data…

Sulzer bolsters pharmaceuticals offering with Haselmeier acquisition

Sulzer Ltd. (Winterthur, Switzerland) has agreed to acquire Swiss-German privately held drug delivery device developer and manufacturer Haselmeier for an enterprise value of EUR 100 million. Haselmeier is a leading, own-IP provider of drug delivery devices such as subcutaneous self-injection…

Petronas Chemical and LG Chem to build new NBL plant in Malaysia

PETRONAS Chemicals Group Berhad (PCG; Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) and LG Chem recently inked an agreement to build a Nitrile Butadiene Latex (NBL) manufacturing plant at Pengerang Integrated Complex (PIC) in Johor to target the growing nitrile glove market, further strengthening…

Hitachi Chemical begins mass production of 5G-compatible laminate material

Hitachi Chemical Co., Ltd. launched mass production of MCL-HS200, an advanced functional laminate material for printed wiring boards, with low transmission loss and low warpage properties required for semiconductor packaging substrates used in such fields as fifth-generation mobile communications systems…

Avoid production losses and reduce maintenance costs with corrosion resistant vacuum drum filters

How a design change has made the vacuum drum filter resistant to corrosion in applications like producing titaniumdioxyd (TiO2) in sulfuric acid (H2SO4) processes, helping to significantly lower production losses and reduce maintenance costs. Prized for its excellent weathering properties,…

U.S. specialty chemical markets expand in July, ACC says

The American Chemistry Council (ACC; Washington, D.C.; www.americanchemistry.com) reported that with continued recovery in the U.S. economy, U.S. specialty chemicals market volumes rebounded by 1.9 percent in July, off from a strong revised 4.6 percent gain in June, a revised…

Metsä Spring and Valmet construct pilot plant for renewable 3D fiber products

Metsä Group’s (Helsinki, Finland) innovation company Metsä Spring and Valmet Oyj (Espoo, Finland) have decided to continue the development collaboration related to 3D fiber products and hence, to invest jointly approximately EUR 20 million in a new R&D project. As…

New Occidental-backed development firm to deploy direct-air carbon capture

Oxy Low Carbon Ventures, LLC, a subsidiary of Occidental, and Rusheen Capital Management, a private equity firm, have formed a development company, 1PointFive, to finance and deploy Carbon Engineering’s large-scale Direct Air Capture (DAC) technology for carbon capture, utilization &…

BP, Aria Energy and Republic Services start up renewable natural-gas project in Tennessee

Republic Services Inc., and energy partners Aria Energy and bp plc (London), announced the startup of a landfill-gas-to-renewable-natural-gas (RNG) project at South Shelby Landfill near Memphis, Tennessee. The project directly supports Republic's commitment to send 50 percent more landfill gas…