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Germany

BASF Will Construct Electronic-Grade Ammonium Hydroxide Plant to Support Semiconductor Manufacturing

BASF (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) announced the construction of a new electronic-grade ammonium hydroxide (NH4OH EG) plant in Ludwigshafen to support s…

China

Soybean to Purchase 12 Mln Tons of US Soybeans This Year

China has agreed to purchase 12 million tons of U.S. soybeans in 2025, offering long-awaited relief for American farmers after years of weak exports. U.S. Treas…

Natural Gas

Ecopetrol, Petrobras Announce Joint Venture to Market Natural Gas From Colombia’s Sirius Project

Colombia’s state-owned energy company Ecopetrol and Brazil’s national oil company Petrobras announced on Thursday a partnership to jointly market na…

United Arab Emirates

Chinese State Company to Build Dubai Towers

China Railway 18th Bureau Group, part of state-owned China Railway Construction Corporation, has secured a contract valued at about $272 million (AED 1 billion)…

Spain

Topsoe SOEC Technology Selected for Forestal’s E-Methanol Plant

Topsoe, a provider of advanced technology for the energy transition, has signed an offtake agreement to supply its solid oxide electrolyser cell (SOEC) technolo…

South Korea

Yokogawa Deploys Multiple Autonomous Control AI Agents at Aramco Facility

Yokogawa Electric Corporation, headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, has reached a major milestone in industrial artificial intelligence deployment through its collabo…

Metal

Copper Fox Metals Initiates Drilling Programme at Mineral Mountain Project in Arizona

Copper Fox Metals and its subsidiary Desert Fox Mineral Mountain have commenced a diamond drilling programme at the Mineral Mountain porphyry copper project in …

Malaysia

Lynas to Build New HRE Separation Facility in Malaysia

Lynas Rare Earths is set to establish a new heavy rare earth (HRE) separation facility in Malaysia to meet rising global demand for a reliable supply of HRE oxi…

Electric Vehicles

Harmony Lntelligent Mobility Alliance Surpasses One-Million-Vehicle Deliveries

On October 28, the Harmony Intelligent Mobility Alliance (HIMA) announced that its total vehicle deliveries have exceeded one million units, marking a major mil…

China

Airbus Cuts Production Rate Target for Its A220 Jet

Europe’s Airbus (AIR.PA) announced on Wednesday that it has lowered its production target for the A220 jetliner, offsetting the positive impact of stronge…

Crude Oil

Exxon Mobil Names Gregory Garland to Board of Directors

Exxon Mobil Corp. (XOM.N) announced on Wednesday that it has appointed Gregory Garland, a long-time industry executive, to its board of directors, effective Nov…

United States

Cargill to Lay Off 80 Workers in Minnesota, More Globally

U.S. agribusiness company Cargill Inc (CARG.UL) announced on Wednesday that it will permanently lay off 80 employees in Minnesota and an unspecified number of w…

Battery

Schneider Electric Unveils 200 Kwh C&I Battery Storage System

Schneider Electric, headquartered in France, has introduced its new battery energy storage system (BESS) for commercial and industrial (C&I) applications, named…

CCS

CCUS Takes Center Stage in Norway’s New National Innovation Hub

Norway has launched a new cluster, dubbed CCUS Innovation, under the Norwegian Innovation Clusters (NIC) program, a government-backed initiative managed jointly…

United States

US Expands Quota for Argentine Beef to 80,000 Tons per Year

Argentina and the United States have reached a new bilateral agreement allowing Argentina to export up to 80,000 tons of beef annually, up from the previous quo…