BASF has announced that Dr. Daniel Schönfelder who is currently the Senior Vice President, Battery Base Metals & Recycling at BASF will as President take charge of the Catalysts division which is based in Germany from January next year.

Total Energies aims to double the SAF production at its Grandpuits site by bringing the site’s production capacity to 285,000 tons annually. It also intends to develop a biomethane production unit with annual capacity of 80 gigawatthours to produce low carbon energies at the site.

Honeywell’s new plant in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA will produce Solstice Air, a near-zero global-warming-potential (GWP) medical propellant which will be used by Astra Zeneca for manufacturing next-generation respiratory inhalers.

ABB has entered into an agreement with Hydrogen Optimized to expand its existing partnership in the field of large-scale green hydrogen production systems. The deal also includes an investment into Hydrogen Optimized’s parent company.

Vianode has inaugurated the Vianode Technology Center (VTC) in Norway with an aim to expand its R&D activities in sustainable battery materials. The move is expected to strengthen the idea of developing a complete battery value chain for the European market.

Pumps are the workhorses of every process plant, not to mention plenty of auxiliary equipment and even portable test gear too. This run-round of recent developments takes in centrifugals, vacuum pumps, positive-displacement pumps and gas sampling units.

Chlorum Solutions has ordered two skid mounted plants with BM2.7 electrolysis technology from Thyssenkrupp Nucera. The chlor-alkali electrolysis plants are expected to produce over 30,000 tons of chlorine annually and will be installed in Brazil.

Under a shareholders’ agreement signed between Ta’ziz and Proman, both the firms will work together to develop a mega methanol production facility in Abu Dhabi, UAE which aims to produce up to 1.8 million tons every year.

Electrostatic discharges create critical safety risks. This article provides examples in powder handling include pneumatic conveyors, big bag filling stations, and even silos where there is the danger of a conical pile discharge. Proper grounding techniques and the correct choice of big bags minimize the hazard.

Solvay has plans to develop a new battery-grade PVDF facility in Augusta, Georgia, USA. The company has also entered into a joint venture with Orbia under which Orbia will supply the required materials to Solvay in order to manufacture its suspension-grade PVDF production.