Chemicals & Raw Materials 4¼h ago: Critical minerals remain central to geopolitics at BRICS summit. Lithium market saw volatility with futures dropping 14% after inventory revisions showing higher stockpiles. Equinox Gold expands post-merger with strong 2026 guidance. Power and electrification demand boosts copper, graphite, and related commodities to all-time highs amid data center buildout.
Streamlined IME and Conductive Inks in Printed Electronics - Creating electronic products that can still be streamlined and use as few materials as possible is one goal for the printed electronics industry. IDTechEx's portfolio of Printed & Flexible Electronics Research Reports and Subscriptions covers in-mold electronics and conductive inks.
Webinar Review: AI for patent searching — From prior art to future frontiers - Patent search looks like a retrieval problem, which is why general-purpose AI struggles with it. In a recent webinar, patent searchers and AI engineers explained where models fail when reading patent text, and what must sit underneath AI before its answers can be trusted.
R3 Lithium starts operations to produce lithium carbonate from recycled battery materials - R3 Lithium (Covington, Ga.; www.r3lithium.com) today announced initiation of operations to produce lithium carbonate from 100% recycled battery materials at North America’s first proven commercial-scale lithium carbonate recovery facility in Covington, Georgia. The company, which also announced that...
Saudi East-West oil pipeline shut following attacks - New York, 11 September (Argus) — Saudi Arabia's 7mn b/d East-West crude pipeline has been shut down following attacks by Yemen's Houthis, stopping flows on what has been a key conduit for oil out of the Mideast Gulf region since the start of the US-Iran war. The pipeline, which moves crude from Saudi...
Integrated process simulation combines AI with engineering physics to optimize energy systems - Petro-SIM® 7.7 is an advanced process simulation, optimization, and digital twin platform for engineers and safety specialists working across the refining, petrochemical, chemical, and process industries. Built on nearly 50 years of refinery and process engineering expertise, Petro-SIM 7.7 integrates…...
Vulcan Energy gets second German Li project licence - Sydney, 11 September (Argus) — Australia-listed lithium developer Vulcan Energy has secured a second production licence for its 24,000 t/yr Lionheart lithium hydroxide project in Germany's Upper Rhine Valley brine field. The six-year licence covers Vulcan's Landau geothermal production area, which is...
Maintenance reconfigures European gas flows - London, 9 September (Argus) — Works at production sites and interconnection points have shifted European flows this month ( see table ). The most disruptive maintenance so far has been seasonal work on the Norwegian continental shelf. This has weighed on Norwegian exports to Europe, including the UK,...
Renolit invests €56 million in automated mixing plant at Worms headquarters - At the headquarters of RENOLIT SE (Worms, Germany), construction work on a new plant for mixing formulations as part of raw materials processing — known as the "mixing plant" — is progressing. Earthworks for the project began in February this…
High demand drives EEX new Bess hedging products - London, 10 September (Argus) — "High client demand" was behind Leipzig-based power exchange EEX's decision to launch battery-focused Top-to-Bottom (TBx) futures, EEX chief executive Tobias Paulun told Argus today on the sidelines of a press briefing. These new products, which will go live on 21 September,...
EU may set CO2 removal targets for member states - London, 10 September (Argus) — The European Commission may propose country-specific targets for emissions cuts from carbon removals in an energy package expected "by the end of the year", according to Christian Holzleitner, head of the commission's land economy and carbon removals unit. Holzleitner...
Chemours, DuPont and Corteva Reach Agreement to Resolve PFAS-Related Claims in North Carolina - Press Release Chemours, DuPont and Corteva Reach Agreement to Resolve PFAS-Related Claims in North Carolina The Chemours Company (NYSE: CC) (the “Company”) today announced that, along with DuPont de Nemours, Inc. (“Dupont”) and Corteva, Inc. (“Corteva”), it has entered into a settlement (the...
