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Dow and Shell start up electrified steam cracker unit

Shell Chemicals and Dow have started up an experimental unit to electrically heat steam cracker furnaces at the Energy Transition Campus Amsterdam, The Netherlands. This represents a key milestone in the companies’ joint technology program to electrify steam cracking furnaces,…

BP takes leadership position in major green-hydrogen hub in Western Australia

bp plc (London) agreed to acquire a 40.5% equity stake in and to become operator of the Asian Renewable Energy Hub (AREH), which has the potential to be one of the largest renewables and green hydrogen hubs in the world.…

Lenzing joins Together for Sustainability supply-chain initiative

The Lenzing Group (Lenzing, Austria), a provider of wood-based specialty fibers for the global textile and nonwoven industries, has joined the chemical industry’s sustainable supply chain initiative, Together for Sustainability (TfS). Together with Lenzing, numerous internationally active chemical companies have…

Major green-hydrogen plant slated for Germany’s Baltic Coast

HH2E AG (Hamburg, Germany) and the MET Group (Zug, Switzerland) have announced a partnership to develop one of the largest green hydrogen production plants in Europe to date in Lubmin/Mecklenburg-Vorpommern on the German Baltic coast. The project aims to construct…

Saint-Gobain Life Sciences expands manufacturing capacity in Japan

Saint-Gobain Life Sciences announced the addition of their Suwa, Japan manufacturing facility for the production of C-Flex TPE tubing for use in bioprocessing. The capacity addition in Suwa is part of Saint-Gobain Life Sciences ongoing investment plan to globally expand…

Wood enters ten-year services agreement with Chevron

Wood plc (Aberdeen, Scotland), has entered into a 10-year global master services agreement for engineering and project related services with Chevron Corp. (San Ramon, Calif.). The agreement can be used by all of Chevron’s business units and covers both offshore…

Origin Materials and Kuraray enter partnership to commercialize carbon-negative polymer materials

Origin Materials, Inc. (West Sacramento, Calif.) and Kuraray Co. (Tokyo) announced a strategic partnership to commercialize advanced carbon-negative materials for diverse polymer applications. As part of the strategic partnership, Kuraray signed a capacity reservation agreement with Origin Materials to purchase…

LyondellBasell licenses high-pressure PE technology to Levima Green Advanced Materials Co.

LyondellBasell (Rotterdam, the Netherlands) announced hat Levima Green (Shandong) Advanced Materials Co., Ltd. will use LyondellBasell’s Lupotech T high-pressure polyethylene (PE) technology at a new site.     The Lupotech T process technology will be used for a 200,ooo metric tons per…

Clariant produces first commercial cellulosic ethanol at new plant in Romania

Clariant AG (Muttenz, Switzerland) announced that it has produced the first commercial cellulosic ethanol at its sunliquid production plant in Podari, Romania. The entire offtake is contracted with a multi-year agreement to Shell. Over the last six months, the plant…

Albemarle inaugurates third lithium-conversion site in Chile

Albemarle Corporation (Charlotte, N.C.) inaugurated its third chemical conversion plant, La Negra III/IV, in Antofagasta as one of the most modern chemical conversion plants in Latin America. With new technology, the plant is expected to double lithium production and further…