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1. Reverse-Lift Double Planetary Mixers Announced By Charles Ross & Son Company 6/1/2020

   The ROSS Double Planetary Mixer is available in a reverse-lift design which raises the vessel to the mixing position, rather than lowering the agitator assembly. A reverse lift facilitates improved rigidity and more uniform blade-to-vessel clearances without relying on the floor to be completely level.

2. Neptune Energy Welcomes DEME As A Partner In The Poshydon Offshore Green Hydrogen Pilot 5/29/2020

   Today, Neptune Energy and DEME announce that DEME Offshore is joining the PosHYdon offshore hydrogen pilot as partner. DEME is the world leader in offshore wind energy and recently entered into partnerships through its subsidiary DEME Concessions for green hydrogen production in the ports of Ostend (Belgium) and Duqm (Oman)

3. North American Helium Raises $39M And Signs Contract For Building Canada’s Largest Helium Purification Facility In Saskatchewan 5/28/2020

   North American Helium Inc. (“NAH” or the “Company”) today announced the Company has closed a non-brokered common share equity financing of approximately $39M

4. New Protocol For Organic Synthesis Using Organoboron Compounds And Visible-Light 5/28/2020

   The generation of alkyl radicals was achieved by direct visible-light excitation of the organoborate complex, which was designed and synthesized from “boracene,” which has a boron atom in the tetracene-like skeleton.

5. Siemens To Supply Compression And Power Generation Equipment For Balikpapan Refinery In Indonesia 5/28/2020

   Siemens Gas and Power has been selected to supply a range of compression and power generation equipment for the Balikpapan Refinery located on Borneo Island in East Kalimantan, Indonesia

6. bp Licenses Its Latest Generation PTA Technology To Dongying Weilian Chemical In China 5/28/2020

   bp has entered into an agreement to license its latest generation technology for the production of purified terephthalic acid (PTA) to China’s Dongying Weilian Chemical Co., Ltd.

7. Dow Moves Ahead With The RENUVA Mattress Recycling Program 5/27/2020

   Dow Polyurethanes (PU), a business division of Dow, is proud to announce a breakthrough in its RENUVA Mattress Recycling Program with a plan to install a pioneering industrial scale production facility at Orrion Chemicals Orgaform in Semoy, France

8. Neste And Covestro Join Forces – Renewable Raw Materials For Plastics Production 5/27/2020

   Neste and Covestro are starting a strategic cooperation in Europe to promote the use of sustainable raw materials in plastics production. Covestro will be supplied with material from renewable sources to replace a significant portion of the fossil raw materials used to date in the manufacture of polycarbonates.

9. Axens’ Recent Successes In Hydrocracking 5/27/2020

   Hydrocracking is one of the major processes in refining converting, in presence of hydrogen, low-value heavy feedstock into high value clean fuels and saturated naphtha. It contributes greatly to the refinery cash flow and flexibility through the cycles and it is becoming an instrumental process for naphtha production as a premium feedstock for crude to petrochemical complexes

10. Sinopec Hainan To Use LyondellBasell’s Hostalen ACP Technology 5/26/2020

    LyondellBasell, the world’s largest licensor of polyolefin technologies, today announced that Sinopec Hainan Refining & Chemical Co., LTD. (Sinopec) will use the LyondellBasell Hostalen “Advanced Cascade Process” (Hostalen ACP) technology for a new facility.