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31. Bay City Plant Utilizing LiMA Technology Reaches 75% Production Capacity 11/18/2025

    In March 2025, Röhm successfully commissioned its state-of-the-art plant in Bay City (Texas, USA) featuring the company’s proprietary LiMA (“Leading in Methacrylates”) C2 technology for the production of methyl methacrylate (MMA). Over the past months, the plant has been gradually ramped up and is currently operating multiple reactors at nameplate capacity.

32. Researchers Achieve Durable Acidic CO₂ Electroreduction To Formic Acid Through Metal-Phase Protection Strategy 11/18/2025

    The electroreduction of carbon dioxide (CO₂) into valuable chemicals and fuels typically operates under alkaline or neutral conditions, but the carbonation side reaction causes carbon loss.

33. Monument Chemical Launches Poly-CO₂: High Performance Polyols From Captured Carbon 11/17/2025

    Monument has begun the first US-based production of polyols from renewable carbon this month at its manufacturing facility in Brandenburg, KY.

34. HORIBA's Gas And Liquid Analysis And Measurement Instruments Adopted For INPEX's 'Blue Hydrogen And Ammonia Production And Usage Demonstration Project' 11/17/2025

    HORIBA, Ltd. (President: Masayuki Adachi, hereinafter “HORIBA”) has provided a comprehensive suite of gas and liquid analysis and measurement instruments for the Blue Hydrogen^*1 and Ammonia^*2 Production and Usage Demonstration Project led by INPEX CORPORATION (Representative Director, President & CEO: Takayuki Ueda, hereinafter “INPEX”).

35. New Sun-Powered Reactor Makes Carbon Dioxide Recycling Cheaper And More Efficient 11/14/2025

    When William Hemmingson came to UNC-Chapel Hill for his Ph.D. in materials chemistry, he joined a lab tackling one of the biggest environmental challenges of our time: finding practical ways to recycle carbon dioxide, the gas most responsible for climate change. 

36. LanzaJet Makes History As The World's First To Produce Jet Fuel From Ethanol At Commercial-Scale Plant Delivering The Next Generation Fuel Solution For Aviation 11/13/2025

    LanzaJet, Inc., a leading next-gen fuels technology company and fuels producer, today announced that it has fully operated and produced fuels at its LanzaJet Freedom Pines Fuels facility in Soperton, Georgia, USA – marking both the world’s first production of jet fuel using ethanol as a feedstock at a commercial-scale plant, and the first non-oil-based renewable solution compatible with today’s aircraft.

37. Nuberg EPC Awarded 120 TPD Chlor-Alkali & Calcium Chloride Plant Project In Oman 11/13/2025

    Nuberg EPC, a global leader in engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) services for the chemical process industry, has been awarded the EPC contract to execute a 120 TPD Chlor-Alkali expansion and a 80 TPD Calcium Chloride Plant for Al Ghaith Chemical Industries LLC at Sur Industrial City, Oman.

38. Research News Gas-Switch Reduction Enables Alloying In Supported Catalysts 11/13/2025

    Supported catalysts are systems in which the active catalytic materials, such as metals, are dispersed on a solid support material, such as alumina, silica, etc. These catalysts are widely used in various chemical processes.

39. World First: Air Liquide's Innovative Technology Converts Ammonia Into Hydrogen At Industrial Scale, Paving The Way For New Low-Carbon Supply Chains 11/13/2025

    Air Liquide announced the successful start-up of the world’s first industrial-scale ammonia cracking pilot unit with a 30 tons per day ammonia to hydrogen conversion capacity at the Port of Antwerp-Bruges, Belgium.

40. Rational Selection Of Catalysts For Rapid, Low-Energy Chemical Recycling Of Polymers 11/12/2025

    The discovery of fundamental rules informs the rational selection of catalysts to minimise energy input and maximise performance in the chemical recycling of polymers into pure monomers.