American CEO faces French lawmakers over chemical plant
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American CEO faces French lawmakers over chemical plantDeccan
Herald - October 22, 2019 The American head of a chemicals company
whose plant in northern France was ravaged by a huge fire last
month, spewing a noxious black cloud for miles around, will face
two parliamentary commissions on Tuesday seeking answers on the
site's security. Eric Schnur, the chief executive of Lubrizol, will
appear before Senate and National Assembly commissions as the
company begins the delicate task of removing around 160 damaged
barrels of chemicals from the site. The blaze at the plant in Rouen
on September 26 sent billowing clouds of soot as far as 22
kilometres (14 miles) away, prompting evacuations and school
closures over potential health risks. Officials have insisted they
will be completely forthcoming on the results of air, soil and
water analyses, saying that so far that only limited contaminations
have been detected despite the acrid fumes that deposited oily soot
across the region. But the government banned the harvesting of
crops or the sale of animal products from a wide swathe of tainted
countryside, a measure that was fully lifted only last Friday. In
total, officials said 5,253 tonnes of chemicals burned at the site,
and an additional 4,250 tonnes at a neighbouring storage facility
Pall Corporation, a leading provider of filtration, separation and
purification solutions, introduces SepraLYTE liquid/gas coalescers,
an innovative solution designed to meet the increasing demand for
efficient separation of electrolyte aerosols from gas in green
hydrogen production processes.Leveraging advanced separation
technology, SepraLYTE coalescers excel in the separation of water
or electrolyte aerosols (30% potassium hydroxide solution) from
hydrogen, ensuring the purity of hydrogen produced from
electrolysis processes. They are highly suitable for a wide range
of separation applications where minimal pressure drop is crucial
for downstream processes."Our new SepraLYTE coalescers represent
Pall's commitment to serving our customers in energy transition
markets. Pall continues to innovate to address new and challenging
customer needs in fast growing markets like green hydrogen," said
Greg Sears, Vice President and General Manager of Pall's Fluid
Technologies and Asset Protection business unit."Pall's coalescers
enable our customers to optimize their plant design, maximize the
lifetime of their critical equipment and improve overall
efficiency, reliability and output," said Sears.These coalescers
feature Pall's proprietary melt blown media technology, which
achieves outstanding liquid mist separation with low differential
pressure. The compact design incorporates coalescer media that
ensures compatibility with various chemical applications. Other key
advantages of SepraLYTE liquid/gas coalescers is the ease of
maintenance, compact size and waste reduction.Utilizing SepraLYTE
liquid/gas coalescers, customers gain significant advantages over
conventional separation products. These advantages include
reliable, consistent and verifiable separation performance, high
gas flow and liquid removal in a compact cartridge, which allow for
smaller systems with low capital, operating, and maintenance
costs.About Pall CorporationPall Corporation is a filtration,
separation and purification leader providing solutions to meet the
critical fluid management needs of customers across the broad
spectrum of industries. Pall collaborates with customers to advance
health, safety, and environmentally responsible technologies. The
Company's engineered products enable process and product innovation
and minimize emissions and waste.Arcadium Lithium plc announced the
completion of the all-stock merger of equals between Allkem and
Livent. The new, combined company is a leading global lithium
chemicals producer committed to safely and responsibly harnessing
the power of lithium to improve people's lives and accelerate the
transition to a clean energy future. With roughly U.S. $1.9 billion
of combined total revenue in 2022 and a global team of more than
2,600 employees, Arcadium Lithium is one of the largest integrated
producers of lithium chemicals in the world.Paul Graves, Chief
Executive Officer of Arcadium Lithium, said: "As one of the leading
global producers of lithium chemicals, Arcadium Lithium has the
resources, scale and expertise to meet the growing needs of our
rapidly changing industry. We are a leader in every major lithium
extraction process - from hard rock mining to conventional pond and
DLE-based brine processing - and vertically integrated, from
resource to chemical manufacturing, in strategic locations around
the world. This will open doors to new opportunities and strengthen
our ability to deliver value to our customers, investors, employees
and communities."Mr. Graves continued: "It is a privilege for me to
lead this great company forward with such an incredible team. This
transformational merger would not have been possible without the
hard work and commitment of our integration planning teams over the
past months. I want to thank them and all of our employees around
the world for getting us to this position. Together, we are
launching an exciting new company that combines the strengths and
storied legacies of two incredible organizations, both with an
wavering commitment to safe, responsible and sustainable
operations. We look forward to building on this strong foundation
and leading our industry forward."Arcadium Lithium ordinary shares
will begin trading today on the NYSE under the ticker "ALTM."
Arcadium Lithium also maintains a foreign exempt listing on the ASX
(via the issue of CHESS Depositary Instruments (CDIs) to Allkem
shareholders) and will commence trading on a normal settlement
basis on the ASX under the ticker "LTM" at 10:00am (AEDT) on
January 5, 2024. Allkem shareholders received either: (a) one
Arcadium Lithium ASX listed CDI; or (b) one Arcadium Lithium NYSE
listed share depending where they resided and what election (if
any) they had made for each Allkem ordinary share held, except for
shareholders in certain ineligible jurisdictions, who will receive
cash proceeds from the sale of the Arcadium Lithium CDIs in lieu of
such CDIs after closing. Livent shareholders received 2.406
Arcadium Lithium NYSE listed ordinary shares for each Livent share
held.Leading eFuels provider Infinium and Amogy Inc. ("Amogy"), a
pioneer of carbon-free, energy-dense power solutions, have entered
into a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to explore opportunities
to integrate their technologies and develop commercial applications
across the eFuels and green ammonia value chain. Infinium and Amogy
are also exploring collaborations with both Mitsubishi Heavy
Industries (MHI) Group and SK Innovation for deployment of the
integrated solution.To accelerate the decarbonization of heavy
industry sectors, the companies will jointly study and identify the
most suitable applications to deploy their eFuels and green ammonia
solutions. A key focus of this collaboration is the potential
integration of Amogy's ammonia-cracking technology to provide
low-cost, accessible green hydrogen feedstock as an input to
produce Infinium's eFuels.Infinium eFuels, also known as
electrofuels or Power-to-X, are made from green hydrogen and waste
carbon dioxide (CO2) in a proprietary process. Amogy's
ammonia-cracking technology leverages its state-of-the-art catalyst
materials to crack ammonia into hydrogen and nitrogen at lower
reaction temperatures with high durability, reducing heating and
maintenance requirements.Upon identifying promising applications,
Infinium and Amogy will initiate strategic pilot programs,
showcasing tangible and scalable implementations of their clean
technology solutions. The partnership also entails the evaluation
of additional opportunities for collaboration within the eFuels and
ammonia spaces, with a focus on the development of commercial use
cases."Ingenuity and collaboration are critical to creating
decarbonization solutions today. Our partnership with Amogy will go
a long way toward helping advance our ability to rapidly scale the
production of ultra-low carbon Infinium eFuels, including eSAF,
eDiesel and eNaphtha," said Robert Schuetzle, CEO at Infinium."We
are thrilled to forge this alliance with Infinium. By uniting our
expertise and resources, we aim to unlock innovative opportunities
that will pave the way for sustainable solutions," says Seonghoon
Woo, CEO of Amogy. "This partnership reflects a shared commitment
to accelerating technologies that can contribute to the reduction
of carbon emissions in the heavy industry sectors."Mitsubishi Heavy
Industries (MHI) has invested in both Infinium and Amogy and is
exploring potential collaboration for new solutions and
applications in energy sector project development."Decarbonizing
heavy industries requires numerous approaches that can concurrently
and collaboratively help mitigate greenhouse gas emissions," said
Ricky Sakai, Senior Vice President of New Business Development at
MHI of America. "We are excited to see how Amogy's emission-free,
energy-dense ammonia solution and Infinium's proprietary eFuels
production process might be aligned to overcome challenges and
accelerate the global availability of commercial decarbonization
solutions."SK Trading International (SKTI) invests in solutions
that contribute to addressing climate change and environmental
pollution and is an investor in Infinium while its parent company
SK Innovation has invested in Amogy."Our global goals to slow the
warming of the planet require significant efforts so they can
quickly scale, find synergies, and explore new pathways," said
Hyunchol Park, Managing Director and Head of Global Trading at
SKTI. "Infinium and Amogy are leaders in their progress and proven
solutions, and I believe their partnership will result in the
identification of breakthrough opportunities to expand and grow
access to cleaner fuels."About InfiniumInfinium is an electrofuels
provider on a mission to decarbonize the world. Electrofuels are a
new class of synthetic fuels made using renewable power and waste
carbon dioxide, not petroleum or resources needed to produce food.
Infinium electrofuels can be dropped into existing trucks, planes
and ships, significantly reducing harmful carbon dioxide emissions
compared to fossil-based fuels. In addition to helping the
transport industry meet carbon reduction goals, Infinium
electrofuels are a lower carbon alternative for chemical
processing, including plastics production.About AmogyFounded in
2020, Amogy is on a mission to unlock the potential of ammonia as a
clean energy source, accelerating the global journey to Net Zero
and sustaining future generations. With a presence in Brooklyn,
Houston, Norway, and Singapore, Amogy is developing fully
integrated ammonia-to-power systems to enable the decarbonization
of the hard-to-abate sectors, such as shipping, power generation,
and heavy-duty transportation.
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