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  1. thyssenkrupp Uhde And Praj Industries Ltd Join Forces To Revolutionize Polylactic Acid Production And Circular Economy 4/29/2025

    thyssenkrupp Uhde’s polymer specialists Uhde Inventa-Fischer (UIF), a subsidiary of the global leader in chemical engineering and construction, and Praj Industries Limited (PIL), a global leader in industrial biotechnology solutions, announced a strategic partnership to jointly offer an end-to-end integrated technology for the production of Polylactic Acid (PLA).

  2. BASF Invests In New Semiconductor-Grade Sulfuric Acid Plant In Ludwigshafen 4/29/2025

    BASF will expand its production capacity for semiconductor-grade sulfuric acid (H2SO4), which is an essential ultra-pure chemical.

  3. Borouge Set To Boost Production Capacity To Over 6.6 Million Tonnes 4/28/2025

    Borouge Plc, a leading petrochemicals company that provides innovative and differentiated polyolefins solutions, has today announced a series of strategic asset expansion projects to accelerate its growth, contributing annually between $165M and $200M (AED600 million - AED730 million) in EBITDA.

  4. Atomically Dispersed Catalysts Are Tough Puzzles To Solve, But Worth The Effort 4/25/2025

    Many modern industrial processes depend on complex chemistry. Take fertilizer production, for example: to make it, companies must first produce ammonia, a key ingredient.

  5. Phelps Advises CF Industries On Development Of New $4B Low-Carbon Ammonia Facility 4/25/2025

    A team of Phelps lawyers advised CF Industries Holdings, Inc., the world’s largest producer of ammonia, on a joint venture with JERA Co., Ltd. (JERA) Japan’s largest energy company and Mitsui & Co, a global investment and trading company, to build a $4B low-carbon ammonia production facility in Ascension Parish, Louisiana.

  6. Wärtsilä, Höegh Evi And Partners Successfully Complete Development Of World's First Floating Ammonia-To-Hydrogen Cracker 4/24/2025

    Wärtsilä Gas Solutions, part of technology group Wärtsilä, and Höegh Evi, a global leader in marine energy infrastructure, have successfully completed development of the world’s first floating ammonia-to-hydrogen cracker.

  7. Chiyoda Awarded A Joint EPC Contract From Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd. For A Large-Scale Lithium Sulfide Production Facility For The Mass Production Of All-Solid-State Battery Materials 4/24/2025

    Chiyoda Corporation (Chiyoda) is pleased to announce that it has been awarded a joint Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) contract with KOBELCO E&M Co., Ltd. (KOBELCO E&M), from Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd. (Idemitsu), for a large-scale lithium sulfide manufacturing facility at their Chiba Plant.

  8. Scientists Develop Artificial Leaf That Uses Sunlight To Produce Valuable Chemicals 4/24/2025

    Researchers from the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) along with international collaborators have brought us one step closer to harnessing the sun’s energy to convert carbon dioxide into liquid fuel and other valuable chemicals.

  9. New Model Predicts A Chemical Reaction's Point Of No Return 4/23/2025

    When chemists design new chemical reactions, one useful piece of information involves the reaction’s transition state — the point of no return from which a reaction must proceed.

  10. Arkema Obtains Mass Balance ISCC PLUS Certification For UV-LED-EB Resin Production In Chatham, VA And West Chester, PA (US) 4/22/2025

    Arkema, a leader in specialty materials, has earned ISCC PLUS certification of its specialty (meth)acrylate oligomers and monomers production sites in Chatham, Va. and West Chester, Pa. (US). As a result, Arkema can now offer bio-attributed energy-curable solutions from their UV-LED-EB resin production facilities worldwide.