BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) announced the official inauguration of its newly built, world-scale Verbund site in Zhanjiang, Guangdong Province in southern China. Covering an area of around four square kilometers, it is more than a major BASF project in the…
This company has debuted a new line of industrial bag filters for gas volumes up to 880,000 actual ft3/min. These bag filters are suitable for the broadest range of dust types, loadings and flow ranges. Bag filter elements consist of a…
Most hydrogenation projects begin with a familiar mandate: a promising Business Case, challenging timelines, and a facility that has to robustly & safely run multiple products under strict GMP rules. The real challenge is not design itself, rather defining a…
This company has launched a software-as-a-service (SaaS) option for its energy management and optimization platform, Ability™ OPTIMAX® 7.0, alongside improved advanced process control software. This allows industrial and energy operators greater flexibility in how they deploy, scale and operate energy…
Aternium (Wilmington, Del.) announced it has selected Kiewit Engineering Group Inc. (Lenexa, Kan.) to perform the pre-FEED for its initial heavy water/hydrogen production facility, the first of a multi-plant project. Aternium’s multi‑plant initiative encompasses approximately $1 billion in safe, high‑efficiency…
BASF Hannong Chemicals Solutions Ltd. (BHCS), the joint venture between BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) and Hannong Chemicals, announced the inauguration of its new non-ionic surfactant (NIS) site located in the Daesan Industrial Complex in Seosan, Chungcheongnam-do, Korea. At the ceremony,…
TotalEnergies SE (Paris) and Holcim (Zug, Switzerland) inaugurated in Belgium a floating solar power plant with a capacity of 31 MW, located in Obourg on a former chalk quarry site that has been rehabilitated into a lake. The solar power…
Amyris, Inc. (Emeryville, Calif.) announced the completed construction of a new production line, which is an expansion of capabilities at its flagship state-of-the-art precision fermentation plant in Barra Bonita, Brazil. A pioneer in advanced precision fermentation technology, Amyris is adding…
Wacker Chemie AG (Munich, Germany) announced another milestone in the expansion of its silicone capacities in India. A new production complex for manufacturing silicone emulsions went into operation at Wacker’s Panagarh site. The facility produces GMP-certified silicones for the cosmetics…
Chemicals company Evonik (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) is realigning its strategic research unit into what it calls The Evonik Innovation Factory. This new unit operates as an entrepreneurial development unit, accelerating the transition of technological breakthroughs into industrial applications. It has…