ALPLA Group (Hard, Austria) is investing more than five million euros in an extrusion system for food-grade recycled polyethylene terephthalate (rPET) made of used PET bottles (so-called post-consumer material) at its site in Anagni, Italy. Anagni is home to one…
Air Liquide (Paris) has completed the construction of the world's largest PEM (Proton Exchange Membrane) electrolyzer. Supplied with renewable energy, this unit is now producing up to 8.2 metric tons per day (m.t./d) of low-carbon hydrogen in Bécancour, Québec. With…
LyondellBasell Industries N.V. (Rotterdam, the Netherlands) and the China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation (Sinopec), one of the largest integrated energy companies in China, announced the signing of an agreement to form a 50:50 joint venture (JV) which will produce propylene…
Aqua Metals, Inc. (McCarran, Nev.), which specializes in lead recycling with its AquaRefining technology, announced it has partnered with BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) to supply electrolyte, cooperate commercially, and explore technical improvements to enhance AquaRefining performance. BASF will provide the…
With plans to commercialize High Resolution De-bondable Panel (HRDP), a special glass carrier for next-generation semiconductor packaging devices, Mitsui Mining & Smelting Co., Ltd. (Mitsui Kinzoku; Tokyo) has been working toward the establishment of a system for mass production in…
Chevron Phillips Chemical, LP (CPChem; The Woodlands, Tex.) announced two significant developments in its advanced-recycling program, which converts waste plastics into circular polyethylene. Since introducing Marlex Anew Circular Polyethylene in October, the company has received certification through the International Sustainability…
Lynas Rare Earths Ltd. (East Perth, Australia) has entered into an agreement with the United States Government to build a commercial Light Rare Earths separation plant in the United States, through the company’s wholly owned subsidiary, Lynas USA LLC. This…
Royal Dutch Shell plc (Shell; The Hagues, the Netherlands), Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI; Tokyo), Vattenfall AB (Stockholm, Sweden) and municipal company Wärme Hamburg are planning a pathway to jointly produce hydrogen from wind and solar power at the Hamburg-Moorburg…
Baker Hughes (Houston) announced an order with Petrobras to provide a suite of digital solutions across Petrobras sites in Brazil. The order, booked in the fourth quarter 2020, will further expand Petrobras’ digital capabilities following a third quarter 2020 order…
MAAG Group, part of Dover, announced that it has been selected by Royal DSM N.V. (Herleen, the Netherlands) to supply them with several automatic strand pelletizing lines (Jet Stream Granulation System – JSG) for the extensive modernization and expansion of their…