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Air Liquide partners with ArcelorMittal in pilot project to capture and recycle carbon
Air Liquide (Paris, France; www.airliquide.com) is partnering with ArcelorMittal in the first industrial scale demonstration plant to capture carbon gas from the steelmaking process and recycle it into chemicals, specifically advanced bioethanol. In this project, Air Liquide Engineering & Construction…
Solvay to raise Tecnoflon fluoroelastomer FKM capacity in Italy
Brussels S.A. (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com) will lift production capacity of its Tecnoflon FKM peroxide curable fluoroelastomer by nearly a third at its plant in Spinetta Marengo, Italy, to serve ongoing strong demand growth for high performance sealing applications in the…
Veolia to deliver crystallization technologies for new fertilizer plant in Tunisia
Veolia Water Technologies (www.veoliawatertech.com) will provide a processing plant integrating HPD crystallization systems designed to produce phosphorus fertilizer. To produce pure crystalline fertilizers, the ALKIMIA Group, a Tunisian chemical holding company specialized in the production of phosphate salts for industrial applications,…
Velocys and Oxy Low Carbon Ventures enter CO2-capture agreement for Mississippi biofuels plant
Velocys Inc. (Plain City, Ohio; www.velocys.com), a wholly owned subsidiary of Velocys plc (Velocys), has signed an agreement with Oxy Low Carbon Ventures, LLC (OLCV), to capture carbon dioxide (CO2) from Velocys’ planned Bayou Fuels biomass-to-fuels project in Natchez, Mississippi,…
ADNOC, Adani, BASF and Borealis sign MoU to evaluate collaboration for a chemical production complex in Mundra
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) and Borealis AG (Vienna, Austria; www.borealisgroup.com) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to engage in a joint feasibility study to further evaluate a collaboration for the establishment of a chemical complex in Mundra, Gujarat,…
Air Liquide to build nitrogen plant to supply polypropylene plant in Kazakhstan
Air Liquide (Paris; www.airliquide.com) has announced a new longterm agreement with Kazakhstan Petrochemical Industries (KPI) under which Air Liquide Munay Tech Gases, a joint venture between Air Liquide and national oil company KazMunayGas (KMG), will build, own and operate a…
Borealis to produce polypropylene using Neste’s renewable propane
Borealis AG (Vienna, Austria; www.borealisgroup.com) and Neste Corp. (Espoo, Finland; www.neste.com) are entering into strategic cooperation for the production of renewable polypropylene (PP). The co-operation will enable Borealis to start using Neste’s 100% renewable propane produced with Neste’s proprietary NEXBTL…
GEA announces intent to sell its Bock refrigeration division
GEA Group AG (Düsseldorf, Germany; www.gea.com) is exploring a possible sale of GEA Bock as part of the Group’s continued focus on its strategic core markets – the food, chemical and pharmaceutical industries. As announced at the Capital Markets Day…
Arkema to expand PVDF plant in Changshu
Driven by continued strong growth in the lithium-ion battery market for electric vehicles, Arkema (Colombes, France; www.arkema.com) will increase the capacity of its high-performance polymer PVDF (polyvinylidene difluoride) dedicated to this market at its Changshu, China plant by approximately 50%.…
LyondellBasell to build molecular-recycling facility in Italy
LyondellBasell Industries N.V. (Rotterdam, the Netherlands; www.lyondellbasell.com) is building a new small-scale pilot facility at its Ferrara, Italy site moving another step closer to converting post-consumer plastic waste into new plastics on a commercial scale. The company selected its Ferrara…