Pacific - North

Air Liquide is powering Korea’s heavy duty hydrogen market development with high pressure filling centres and liquid hydrogen investment.

A ‘cutting-edge’ carbon dioxide (CO2)-to-methanol plant has begun production in Anyang, Henan Province, China, becoming the world’s first commercial scale facility of its kind to produce methanol from captured waste CO2 and hydrogen gases.

Seattle-based Impact Bioenergy – which converts food waste into renewable natural gas (RNG) – has been boosted by $3.6m Series A funding which will help it to scale manufacturing.

A large scale, carbon dioxide (CO2) injection system from Hyundai Heavy Industries Group (HHI Group) has been awarded approval in principle by the American Bureau of Shipping (ABS).

Alaska has been touting its LNG export ambitions to Japan this week and targeting the development of zero carbon ammonia.  

Air Liquide will invest €500m ($492m) in three new state-of-the-art plants for the semiconductor sector in Taiwan, with the first set to be operational in 2024.

Linde has announced the start-up of a new air separation unit (ASU) at the Yantai Chemical Industrial Park in China, to supply gaseous oxygen and nitrogen to Wanhua Chemical Group (Wanhua).

If it’s widely accepted that Helium Shortage 4.0 began on 1st July 2021, here Phil Kornbluth looks at whether it’s likely we’ll still be in its midst by 1st July 2023.