Gevo, Inc. (Englewood, Colo.) announced a purchase agreement for its low-carbon intensity fuel blendstock with Shell Global Solutions Deutschland GmbH for use in motorsports. Gevo’s renewable blendstock is suitable for premium motorsport fuels, demonstrating that sustainability and peak performance belong…
As industries seek to optimise their operations and stay ahead in an increasingly competitive market, systems that can improve efficiency and ensure safety are becoming more critical. Actuators and flow control equipment within chemical plants must be precise, reliable and…
Toyo Engineering Corp. (Tokyo) has signed a Joint Development Agreement (JDA) with Pupuk Indonesia Holding Company (PIHC), a state-owned fertilizer company in Indonesia, and Itochu Corp. Corporation (Tokyo). The agreement focuses on producing green ammonia by installing an electrolyzer at…
LyondellBasell (LYB; Rotterdam, the Netherlands) announced it entered into an agreement to acquire full ownership of APK AG in Merseburg, Germany. Enabled by its technology, the acquisition positions LYB to grow and upgrade its Circular and Low Carbon Solutions business.…
Lanxess AG (Cologne, Germany) is continuing the production of chromium oxide pigments at the Krefeld-Uerdingen site and is discontinuing its original plans to sell the business. Around 50 people are employed at the plant for chromium oxides, which are used…
The VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland (VTT; Espoo, Finland; www.vttresearch.com) announces a new initiative to address the challenges of energy and resource consumption in the forestry and textile industry. The goal of the Energy First initiative is to…
The industrial valves industry can look back on a successful first half of 2024, exceeding expectations. Despite a decline in domestic [German] sales, overall growth of 5% in nominal terms was achieved as a result of a strong expansion of…
Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies, a contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) for biologics, vaccines, advanced therapies, and oncolytic viruses, announced the opening of its microbial fermentation manufacturing facility in Billingham, U.K. This new facility triples existing microbial production throughput with the…
Infinium (Sacramento, Calif.) and Borealis Group (Vienna, Austria) have entered into an agreement to enable the production of low-carbon-footprint plastics generated from waste carbon dioxide emissions that would otherwise be released into the atmosphere. These plastics, known as polyolefins, are…
thyssenkrupp Steel Europe (Duisburg, Germany) is scaling up its research activities in the field of low-carbon steel production to include a cooperation with BlueScope Steel. The focus of this cooperation is on the smelting units, which form a core component…