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Axens and Arol Energy partner to deliver digital solutions platform for biomethane producers

Axens (Rueil-Malmaison, France) and Arol Energy have signed a license agreement for Axens' Connect’In technology. This service offer will now be proposed by Arol Energy to its biomethane producer customers. Connect’In is a digital solution developed by Axens and until…

ALPLA, partners to construct plastics recycling plant in Romania

ALPLA Group (Hard, Austria) is investing in the construction of a recycling plant in Targu Mures, Romania as part of a joint venture with its partners. The plastic granulate recycled there in the future will come from PET collected from…

Grace licenses Unipol PP process technology to GAIL Limited

W.R. Grace & Co. (Columbia, Md.), the leading independent supplier of polyolefin catalyst technology and polypropylene (PP) process technology, has licensed its UNIPOL PP process technology to GAIL (India) Ltd, India’s principal gas transmission and marketing company under the Ministry of…

Axalta breaks ground for new coatings plant in North China

Axalta Coating Systems (Philadelphia, Pa.) broke ground for construction of a state-of-the-art coatings facility in Jilin City, Jilin Province, North China. The 46,000-square-meter new plant will produce mobility coatings to support growing customer demand in China for light vehicles, commercial vehicles,…

Shell to build major biofuels plant in Rotterdam

Royal Dutch Shell plc (Shell; The Hague, the Netherlands) announced a final investment decision to build an 820,000-ton/year biofuels facility at the Shell Energy and Chemicals Park Rotterdam, the Netherlands, formerly known as the Pernis refinery. Once built, the facility…

Versalis acquires Ecoplastic recycling technology and plants

Versalis S.p.A. (San Donato Milanese), Eni’s chemical company, has acquired on an exclusive basis the technology and plants of Ecoplastic, an Italian company of the De Berg group specializing in the recovery, recycling and transformation chain of styrenic polymers. The…

Air Liquide and Saras launch carbon-capture study at Sarroch refinery

Air Liquide SA (Paris) and Saras  S.p.A. signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) aimed at exploring the solutions to reduce the carbon footprint of Saras’ Sarroch petroleum refinery in Italy, one of the most important refineries in Europe. As part…

Italian consortium to jointly develop Puglia Green Hydrogen Project

Edison S.p.A. and Snam S.p.A. (both Milan, Italy) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) along with Saipem S.p.A. (San Donato Milanese, Italy) and Alboran Hydrogen – who had both already signed a cooperation agreement last year - for the…

Solvay completes new themoplastic composites production line in South Carolina

Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium) announced the installation completion of its new thermoplastic composites (TPC) manufacturing facility at its Greenville, South Carolina site. At full production capacity, the new line will add more than 30 positions at the 27,000-square-foot facility. The project…

Eni signs agreement for production of sustainable aviation fuel, decarbonization of aviation sector

Eni S.p.A. (Rome, Italy) and Aeroporti di Roma (ADR) have signed a strategic agreement to promote decarbonization initiatives in the aviation sector and accelerate the ecological transition of airports. Eni has been producing Hydrotreated Vegetable Oil (HVO) biofuel in its…