Air Monitor Corporation announced the release of a new website design. The seamless new design uses the latest UX/UI design principles for customers in the HVAC, Industrial, and Power industries. This functional new design will help customers find products,…
Cummins Inc. (Columbus, Ind.) announced an agreement to form a joint venture with NPROXX, a leader in hydrogen storage and transportation, for hydrogen storage tanks. The joint venture will continue under the name NPROXX."We are thrilled to combine Cummins’ expertise,…
Braskem America (Philadelphia, Pa) announced the construction completion of its newest, polypropylene production facility located in La Porte, Texas. Braskem's new facility has a designed production capacity of over 450,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr) and has the capability to…
Agilyx Corp. (Tigard, Ore.) announced an exclusive collaboration with TechnipFMC to jointly develop a process to purify Agilyx Styrene Oil to high-purity styrene. This collaboration has been the result of over a year of evaluation, and their desire to expand…
Andreas Fischer has been named Evonik's new chief innovation officer, effective July 1st. He takes over from Ulrich Küsthardt, who has held this position since 2015 and is now taking early retirement. Essen. Andreas Fischer has been named Evonik Industries…
ZheJiang Petroleum & Chemical (ZPC; Zhoushan, Zhejiang, China) has selected Axens’ (Rueil-Malmaison, France) catalysts for its pyrolysis gasoline (Pygas) selective hydrogenation units part of the 1,400,000-ton/yr grassroots ethylene plant Phase 1 in Zhoushan City, China. The ethylene cracker is part…
Sasol Ltd. (Johannesburg, South Africa) announced that the Guerbet alcohol unit at the Lake Charles Chemicals Project (LCCP) achieved beneficial operations on 19 June 2020. This follows three days after achieving beneficial operations on the Ziegler alcohol unit, bringing the…
Johnson Matthey plc (JM; London) is pleased to announce that China’s Ningxia Baofeng Energy Group has successfully started up the 6,600 metric ton per day (m.t./d) methanol plant at their 600,000-m.t./yr coal-to-olefins (CTO) complex near Yinchuan in Ningxia Province, China…
W. R. Grace & Co. (Columbia, Md.) announced the opening of its new 8,200 square-meter colloidal silica plant at its European flagship manufacturing and R&D center in Worms, Germany. The facility doubles the worldwide production capacity of Ludox, Grace’s leading…
McDermott International, Inc. (Houston) announced it has been awarded a sizeable Pre Front End Engineering Design (pre-FEED) contract from 8 Rivers Capital for their NET Power UK project with the U.K. Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. The project…