Stamicarbon is pleased to announce a multi-year sponsor partnership with the Marc Cornelissen Brightlands Award. As an innovation company we know that the road to innovation can often be bumpy or subject to deviations. Stamicarbon is proud to support this award, that accelerates breakthrough ideas and the talented people behind them. All participants are offered a platform for knowledge, networking and collaboration, while the winner receives a cash prize of € 35,000 to take their idea to the next level.  …

Nitric Acid The challenge is to design a nitric acid plant with maximum energy recovery and the lowest investment costs for a wide range of single-train capacities. Stamicarbon can help with this by applying many decades of experience and retaining the reliability and operability from industrially proven elements appreciated by our customers. We have been licensing a range of nitrate technologies since the 1930s and have designed over 40 nitric acid plants worldwide. Stamicarbon plants are renowned for …

Stamicarbon congratulates Panos Kouris of start-up Vertoro, winner of the Marc Cornelissen Brightlands Award. Co-sponsored by Stamicarbon, the award was announced during a ceremony at the Brightlands campus in Geleen on Wednesday. The jury was impressed by Vertoro’s advanced plans to extract lignin from wood waste to use as fuel for ships or as a sustainable raw material for plastics. Dysmus Kisulu of Solar Freeze and Werner Schouten of the Young Climate Movement shared second place. Stamicarbon …

Stamicarbon, the innovation and license company of Maire Tecnimont Group and Henan Xinlianxin Chemicals Group Co. Ltd. in China, have signed licensing and equipment supply contracts for a second Ultra-Low Energy grass root urea plant. The virtual signing event had all the spirit of a traditional ceremony, despite participants connecting from different countries via videoconferencing.  It represents the third licensing project in five years between Henan Xinlianxin Chemicals Group and Stamicarbon. Sittard, …

Maire Tecnimont S.p.A. announces that through its subsidiaries NextChem, Stamicarbon and MET Development (MET DEV) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with ADANI ENTERPRISES Ltd (AEL)  to explore the development of industrial projects using NextChem and Stamicarbon’s technologies and MET DEV’s project development capabilities and expertise to industrialize green chemistry and circular economy sectors in India. The projects will be focused on producing chemicals, ammonia and hydrogen from renewable …

ENEA, the Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development, will lead an interdisciplinary consortium of nine European partners to develop an innovative prototype for high-temperature electrolysis, using renewable solar heat and power to produce green hydrogen in a continuous way. By working in close connection with leading European industrial companies, this challenging and innovative project called 'PROMETEO', will contribute to move a step forward in …

Stamicarbon, the innovation and license company of Maire Tecnimont Group, has signed a contract with Abu Qir Fertilizers Co. in Alexandria, Egypt, for the revamp of one of their urea melt plants (known as Abu Qir 3). Stamicarbon will deliver the license and the Process Design Package for the revamped plant, which is expected to be operational in 2025.  Stamicarbon, the innovation and license company of Maire Tecnimont Group, has signed a contract with Abu Qir Fertilizers Co., in Alexandria, Egypt, for the …

Maire Tecnimont S.p.A. announces that its subsidiaries MET Development, Stamicarbon and NextChem have started work on a renewable power–to-fertilizer plant in Kenya. MET Development has signed an agreement with Oserian Development Company for the development of the plant at the Oserian Two lakes Industrial Park located on the southern banks of Lake Naivasha, 100 km North of Nairobi. World’s first industrial-scale plant powered by renewable energy to produce low carbon intensity nitrates Further step in the …