Southwest Research Institute’s new Clinical Supply Facility aims to support government and industry clients with integrated pharmaceutical and bioengineering research and development. The facility will have the potential to produce in vitro stem cells, certain types of vaccines and small molecule therapeutics in a clean environment.

Metso’s new facility will help customer-specific pilot-scale testing to be carried out in order to demonstrate the applicability and results of industrial-scale DRI smelting with Metso’s Outotec DRI Smelting Furnace technology.

Under a collaboration agreement signed between Technip Energies and Enerkem, both the companies will work together to accelerate the deployment of Enerkem’s technology which can convert non-recyclable waste and residues into sustainable fuels and circular chemical products.

Invista has decided to continue hexamethylene diamine production at its Orange site in Texas, USA after announcing to end its adiponitrile and hexamethylene diamine operations at the site last year.

Linde has plans to de-captivate two air separation units as well as expand its existing supply of industrial gases to Tata Steel in Odisha, India. Both the ASUs are currently under construction and Linde will supply oxygen, nitrogen and argon to Tata Steel under a long-term agreement.

Thyssenkrupp Automation Engineering has bagged a feed contract from Hystar for an automated 4.5 GW electrolyzer manufacturing line for its GW factory in Høvik, Norway.

Neste has plans to re-evaluate its earlier investment strategy of investing into a 120 MW electrolyzer project to produce renewable hydrogen at its Porvoo refinery in Finland. The core reasons behind the withdrawal are the firm’s challenging market conditions and financial performance.

Calling all industries to decarbonize, decarbonize and decarbonize. We are living in a world where decarbonization is no longer an option but a core necessity. Although there are many industrial projects that have made headlines for decarbonizing their operations but we take a look at three upcoming mega projects that can be considered as landmark projects of recent times.

The ‘Chbika’ project aims to develop 1 GW of onshore solar and wind capacities that will power the production of green hydrogen through the electrolysis of desalinated seawater and lead to the production of 200,000 tons per year of green ammonia for the European market. The project will constitute the first phase of a development program which is aimed at creating a world-scale green hydrogen production hub.

With a hefty investment of 60 million euros, Alpla has inaugurated its new Pet recycling plant in Ballito, South Africa. With this project, the company plans to produce up to 35,000 tonnes of recycled Pet per year.