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Martin Pitt considers the chemical engineering history of common salt
Type: Feature
Martin Pitt continues his look at the chemical engineering history of common salt
Type: Feature
Equinor becomes second largest shareholder of leading Danish renewables firm
NORWEGIAN energy company Equinor has bought a 10% stake in Danish multinational Ørsted, one of the world’s largest renewable energy companies.
Type: News
Marathon Andeavor tie-up will create largest US refiner
MARATHON PETROLEUM has agreed to buy Andeavor in a US$36bn deal that will create the largest US refiner by capacity.
Type: News
Cuadrilla to start fracking second well
CUADRILLA plans to frack a second well in Lancashire, UK, before its planning permission expires in November.
Type: News
Sweden discovers Europe’s largest rare earths deposit
SWEDEN’S state mining firm has discovered what could be Europe’s largest rare earths deposit, and says it could help the bloc reduce its reliance on imports of minerals needed to manufacture clean technologies and meet climate targets.
Type: News
CATL to build second European battery plant in Hungary
CHINESE battery firm CATL plans to build a new 100 GWh battery plant covering an area of 221 ha in the southern industrial park of Debrecen, east Hungary, to meet the growing needs of European carmakers.
Type: News
Umicore acquires Europe’s largest cobalt refinery
INTERNATIONAL mining company Freeport-McMoran has agreed to sell Europe’s largest cobalt refinery to Umicore, a global materials and recycling company.
Type: News
UK’s largest bioethanol facility set to close
VIVERGO FUELS has said it is looking to close the UK’s largest bioethanol plant by the end of September, blaming high wheat prices and delays implementing biofuels legislation.
Type: News
Consultants & Contractors Guide 2023: A Tricky Client called Planet Earth
Tracey Shelley says engineering contractors need stability to execute climate change solutions
Type: Feature
UK’s largest bioethanol facility shuts down in face of political instability
THE UK’s largest bioethanol producer has halted production at its plant in East Yorkshire, blaming government inaction.
Type: News
Johnson Matthey licenses technology for largest-of-its-kind biodegradable plastics plant
JOHNSON MATTHEY is licensing its butanediol (BDO) process technology for a new plastics plant in Fujian, China, which is said to be the largest of its kind in the world.
Type: News
Chevron Phillips and Qatar Petroleum to build world’s largest ethane cracker
Qatar Petrochemical and Chevron Phillips Chemical have signed agreements to jointly develop petrochemicals projects in the US and in the Middle East, which will include building the world’s largest ethane cracker in the US.
Type: News
Ineos secures €3.5bn for its huge European chemicals investment
INEOS has raised €3.5bn (US$3.7bn) for the construction of a world-scale ethylene plant in Belgium, in what will be the largest investment in the European chemicals sectors in around 20 years, for the continent’s greenest cracker.
Type: News
Second Cuadrilla approval for onshore fracking
CUADRILLA, the natural resource company, has been granted government approval for fracking at a second onshore site in Lancashire, UK.
Type: News
BHP workers at world’s largest copper mine claim pay dispute ‘victory’
UNION workers at BHP’s Escondida copper mine in Chile, the largest copper mine in the world, have called off a strike after agreeing a pay agreement with the Australian mining giant.
Type: News
Without an effective UK carbon tax, decision-makers cannot make the business case for carbon capture and storage
Type: Feature
Mammoth undertaking: Climeworks starts up world’s largest direct air capture plant
THE world’s largest direct air capture (DAC) plant – Mammoth – has started operations in Iceland where it is working to draw 36,000 t/y of CO2 from the atmosphere.
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