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Ascend acquires manufacturing assets in Changshu Yushan High-Tech Industrial Park

Ascend Performance Materials (Houston) signed an agreement to purchase the assets of NCM (Changshu) Co., Ltd., and Tehe Engineering Plastic (Suzhou) Co., Ltd., located in Changshu Yushan High-tech Industrial Park, one of the major advanced manufacturing parks in the eastern…

Endress+Hauser launches Visual Support to assist maintenance personnel remotely

Extraordinary times require extraordinary measures: For this reason, Endress+Hauser AG (Reinach, Switzerland) has released the Visual Support service application ahead of schedule during the coronavirus crisis. In the acute phase of the pandemic, customers were able to take advantage of…

Recyclable and biodegradable plastics from plant sugars

Worley (North Sydney, Australia) has been awarded a FEED (front-end engineering design) contract to develop Avantium’s (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) flagship plant that will support the transition to a bio-based economy for plastics. The plant will produce 100% plant-based FDCA (furandicarboxylic…

BASF supports search for active ingredients to combat coronavirus SARS-CoV-2

As part of its “Helping Hands” initiative, BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) is not just donating disinfectant and protective face masks. The company is also providing support worldwide to academic research groups in their search for a suitable active ingredient to…

Air Liquide to build air-separation unit for POSCO steelmaking site in South Korea

Air Liquide Engineering & Construction has signed a new contract with POSCO, a leading steel producer in South Korea, to design and build an Air Separation Unit (ASU) which will produce oxygen, nitrogen, and argon and have a production capacity…

Petrofac wins management contract for U.K. carbon-capture and hydrogen project

The Engineering and Production Services (EPS) business of Petrofac Ltd. (St. Helier, U.K.) has been awarded an Engineering and Project Management Office support contract for the Acorn project – a two-pringed environmental strategy bringing together carbon capture and hydrogen generation…

RWE and thyssenkrupp plan partnership focused on green hydrogen for steel production

German energy company RWE and thyssenkrupp Steel Europe have agreed to work together toward a long-term hydrogen partnership, under which green hydrogen from an RWE Generation electrolyzer could help thyssenkrupp Steel Europe sustainably reduce CO2 emissions from steel production in…

Stamicarbon announces construction milestone for new fertilizer complex in Egypt

Stamicarbon B.V. (Sittard, the Netherlands) has announced that the first piece of high-pressure equipment for NCIC’s new urea melt plant in Egypt has been finalized on time. The stripper was completed on at Schoeller-Bleckmann Nitec GmbH (SBN) in Austria, and…

Haldor Topsoe to provide technology for renewable-fuel conversion at California refinery

Haldor Topsoe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark) announced that Global Clean Energy Holdings (GCE) has selected HydroFlex technology for the revamp of a refinery for renewable fuel production. Global Clean Energy’s retooled facility will produce 15,000 barrels per day of renewable diesel…

Yanmar and Toyota develop hydrogen fuel-cell system for maritime applications

Yanmar Holdings Co. (Osaka, Japan) and its subsidiary Yanmar Power Technology Co., Ltd. have announced the development of a hydrogen fuel-cell system for maritime applications based on fuel cell technology for automobiles, as part of efforts to offer environment-friendly powertrain…