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Lonza to supply materials for Natron Energy Na-ion battery production

Natron Energy, the world’s leading developer and supplier of high-power, long-life and low-cost Sodium-ion batteries using Prussian blue chemistry, and Lonza Specialty Ingredients (LSI; Basel, Switzerland) announced their agreement for LSI to supply high volumes of Prussian blue pigment materials…

SABIC signs MOU with SIRC to establish chemical-recycling facility

SABIC (Jubail, Saudi Arabia) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Saudi Investment Recycling Company (SIRC), a wholly owned subsidiary of Saudi Public Investment Fund (PIF), to help SIRC set up its first chemical recycling project to enable the use…

Wood and NEL join forces to develop large-scale green-hydrogen projects

Wood plc (Aberdeen, Scotland) has entered into a new, three-year engineering framework agreement with NEL Hydrogen ASA (Oslo, Norway) aligning with the company’s ambition to unlock sustainable solutions to global energy challenges. Through the provision of its project execution expertise,…

LyondellBasell obtains new sustainability certification for European polymer sites

  LyondellBasell Industries N.V. (Rotterdam, the Netherlands) announced that it has obtained the International Sustainability and Carbon Certification (ISCC) PLUS certification, one of the world’s largest sustainability certification systems, for Wesseling, Germany, cracker and European polymer sites. As a result…

Metso Outotec to buils India’s first large-scale Grate-Kiln pellet plant

Metso Outotec Corp. (Helsinki, Finland) has signed a contract with an Indian customer for the supply of a large-capacity Grate-Kiln pellet plant in the State of Odisha, India.  Typically, the value for this type of an order is in the…

Technip Energies wins EPCC contract for IOCL expansion project

Technip Energies (Paris, France) has been awarded a significant Engineering, Procurement, Construction and Commissioning (EPCC) contract by Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL) for its BR9 Expansion Project in Barauni, Bihar, in the Eastern part of India. This EPCC contract covers…

Large-scale hydrogen-storage facility underway at Hybrit pilot plant in Sweden

SSAB, LKAB and Vattenfall AB (Stockholm, Sweden)  have commenced building a rock cavern storage facility for fossil-free hydrogen gas on a pilot scale next to HYBRIT’s pilot facility for direct reduction in Luleå, North of Sweden. This is an important…

SK Global Chemical and Kolon Industries launching biodegradable PBAT plastic

Kolon Industries and SK Global Chemical Ltd. (both Seoul, South Korea) are cooperating to launch eco-friendly biodegradable plastic product PBAT (Polybuthylene Adipate-co-Terephthalate), which can “decomposes well,” in the third quarter this year. PBAT is an environmental-friendly plastic product that quickly…

Sulzer Chemtech and Borealis develop new extrusion process for expanded PP

Sulzer Chemtech Ltd. (Winterthur, Switzerland) and Borealis Group AG (Vienna, Austria) have completed the development of an innovative process for the cost-effective extrusion of expanded polypropylene (ePP) beads. Polypropylene (PP) is a highly effective material, offering advanced mechanical properties and…

Alfa Laval becomes partner in Liquid Wind power-to-X consortium

Alfa Laval AB (Lund, Sweden) has become a partner in the Swedish company Liquid Wind, which develops electro-fuel facilities to produce renewable clean fuels. Alfa Laval will be part of the Liquid Wind board and contribute with its heat transfer…