Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium) announced the opening of its Alve-One production unit in Rosignano, Italy. This marks a new milestone with the launch of a significant European production facility for Alve-One, a chemical blowing agent eco-designed to transform the thermoplastic foaming…
Linde plc (Guilford, U.K.) announced that its subsidiary White Martins will build, own and operate a second electrolyzer to produce green hydrogen for the southeast region of Brazil. The five-megawatt pressurized alkaline electrolyzer plant will be located next to the…
At €24.3 billion, incoming orders booked in Germany by the members of the VDMA Large-scale Plant Engineering Group (AGAB; Frankfurt am Main) in Germany in 2023 were 15.7% higher than in the previous year (2022: €21.0 billion). This figure represents…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany), SABIC (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) and Linde plc (Guildford, U.K.) have inaugurated the world’s first demonstration plant for large-scale electrically heated steam cracking furnaces. Following three years of development, engineering, and construction work, the regular operation of…
Vitol (Geneva, Switzerland) announced the acquisition of renewable energy company, BioMethane Partners, to form Vitol BioMethane (VBM). VBM is a Texas-based landfill-gas-to-energy company, whose leadership has more than 100 years of combined experience in designing, building, and operating gas collection…
Messer Group GmbH (Bad Soden, Germany) has built a nitrogen production plant on the premises of the Harman Becker Automotive System Manufacturer in Székesfehérvár, Hungary. The energy-efficient and remote-controlled plant will meet the nitrogen demand of the audio and infotainment…
KBR, Inc. (Houston) has signed a contract to provide its green ammonia technology, K-GreeN, for Fortescue’s Holmaneset green energy project in Norway. Under the terms of the contract, KBR will provide technology license, proprietary engineering design, and FEED support engineering…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) has successfully started operating its prototype metal refinery for battery recycling in Schwarzheide, Germany. The state-of-the-art plant allows for the development of operational procedures and the optimization of innovative battery recycling technology, processing end-of-life lithium-ion batteries…
Topsoe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark) signed an agreement with Cepsa (Madrid, Spain) under which Topsoe will provide its HydroFlex technology for the production of SAF and renewable diesel at Cepsa and Bio-Oils’ new second-generation biofuels plant in Palos de la Frontera,…
Wood plc (Aberdeen, Scotland) has been selected as a contractor by Net Zero Teesside Power (NZT Power) and Northern Endurance Partnership (NEP) for integrated project management services. NZT Power, which aims to be one of the world’s first commercial scale…