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Teijin to build new composite compression molding line in Czech Republic
Teijin Ltd. (Toyko) will install a composite compression molding line at Benet Automotive s.r.o, the company’s automotive composites business in Milovice, Czech Republic. Teijin will invest some EUR 10 million in the new glass-fiber sheet molding compound (GF-SMC) line, which…
Ingevity increases capacity at activated-carbon plant in Zhuhai, China
Ingevity Corp. (North Charleston, S.C.) has expanded its activated carbon production capacity following significant debottlenecking and equipment upgrades completed and verified in late December at its facility in Zhuhai, China. The plant upgrades have effectively increased its capacity by an…
Encina and Flint Hills Resources partner on potential production of waste-plastic-based fuels and chemicals
Encina Development Group, LLC (The Woodlands, Tex.; www.encina.com.) announced the signing of a non-binding term sheet with Flint Hills Resources, LLC (Wichita, Kan.; www.fhr.com) to produce renewable chemicals and renewable fuels from waste plastic. The term sheet contemplates that the…
3M proposes $1 billion in investments toward reaching sustainability goals
3M (St. Paul, Minn.) announced it expects to invest approximately $1 billion over the next 20 years to accelerate new environmental goals: achieve carbon neutrality by 2050, reduce water use by 25% at its facilities, and return higher quality water…
Mitsubishi Chemical to consolidate water-treatment membrane operations
Mitsubishi Chemical Corp. (MCC; Tokyo) announced that it will transfer to its own operations and consolidate its membrane-related technology development and sales currently undertaken by its subsidiary Mitsubishi Chemical Aqua Solutions Co., Ltd. (MCAS) effective April 1, 2021. The aim…
Austria’s largest green-hydrogen plant being constructed at OMV refinery
OMV AG (Vienna, Austria) and Kommunalkredit Austria AG (Kommunalkredit) have announced a joint investment in the construction of Austria’s largest electrolysis plant in the OMV Schwechat Refinery. Total investment will be around EUR 25 million, with OMV and Kommunalkredit each…
BP joins the IBM Quantum Network to advance use of quantum computing
IBM announced that bp plc (London) has joined the IBM Quantum Network to advance the use of quantum computing in the energy industry. By joining the IBM Quantum Network as an Industry Partner, bp will have access to IBM's quantum…
Axens selected for Numaligarh Refinery Expansion Project in India
Numaligarh Refinery Ltd. (NRL), a subsidiary of Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd. — a public sector undertaking under the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, India — has selected Axens (Rueil-Malmaison, France) to supply advanced technologies in gasoline block for its…
Maire Tecnimont Group receives FEED contract and MoU for a biorefinery in South America
Maire Tecnimont S.p.A. (Rome, Italy), through its subsidiary NextChem and Essential Energy USA Corp., have executed a front-end engineering design (FEED) contract, as well as a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the construction of a new biorefinery in South America…
Siemens Energy signs agreement to build first-of-its-kind waste heat-to-power facility in Canada
Siemens Energy AG (Munich, Germany) has signed an agreement with Canada-based TC Energy Corp. (TC Energy) to commission a novel waste heat-to-power pilot installation in Alberta. The facility will capture waste heat from a gas-fired turbine operating at a pipeline…