Chemical Engineering

Outokumpu Oyj (Helsinki, Finland) is inaugurating a new agglomeration plant for biocoke in Tornio, Finland. The plant enables the replacement of fossil coke with biomass-based biocoke in ferrochrome production. The approximately €30 million investment marks a significant step forward in the company’s efforts to reduce its direct carbon dioxide emissions and develop low-carbon...

BioBTX B.V. (Groningen, Netherlands) is building its world’s first commercial-scale plant to transform mixed plastic waste into high-quality aromatic chemicals based on its in-house developed ICCP (Integrated Catalytic Cracking Process) technology. Covestro AG (Leverkusen, Germany) has been a shareholder and strategic partner of the Groningen-based company since 2024, with a ...

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (Waltham, Mass.) announced that it has completed the sale of its microbiology business to Astorg, a leading pan-European private equity firm, for consideration of approximately $1.075 billion, consisting of cash and a $50 million seller note. The microbiology business provides antimicrobial susceptibility testing and culture media solutions for c...

Nano One® Materials Corp. (Burnaby, B.C., Canada), a process technology company specializing in lithium-ion battery cathode active materials, has produced LFP cathode active material (CAM) and in-house battery test cells using battery-quality lithium carbonate supplied by Standard Lithium Ltd. (Vancouver, B.C., Canada) from the pilot plant at its South West Arkansas Project (...

Vale S.A. (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) and ABB Ltd. (Zurich, Switzerland) have signed a strategic alliance with the aim of expanding the use of automation and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to increase safety, productivity and sustainability in mineral production in Brazil. It follows the inauguration of one of the most advanced iron ore processing plants […]

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