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Valmet to provide major process equipment for Renewcell textile-recycling plant in Sweden

Renewcell and Valmet Oyj (Espoo, Finland) have signed a contract for Valmet to deliver the main equipment for Renewcell’s planned 60,000 metric-ton capacity textile recycling plant at Ortviken industrial site in Sundsvall, Sweden. This is a major milestone in the…

ArcelorMittal and Vow ASA announce plans to build a biogas plant in Luxembourg

Specialist provider of technology for decarbonizing industry Vow ASA (Oslo, Norway) confirms that it has signed a strategic memorandum of understanding with ArcelorMittal (Luxembourg) to work on a project to build a biogas production plant that will reduce CO2 emissions…

SK Global Chemical and Brightmark to build pyrolysis-based plastics-recycling plant in South Korea

SK Global Chemical (Seoul, South Korea) and Brightmark, the global waste solutions provider, have signed a memorandum of understanding to create a partnership that aims to take the lead in the circular economy of plastic by construction of a commercial-scale…

Hydrogen-fuel business OneH2 receives investment from Sumitomo

Sumitomo Corporation of Americas (SCOA; New York, N.Y.), the largest subsidiary of Sumitomo Corp., announced its investment in OneH2, a hydrogen fuel company headquartered in Longview, North Carolina. SCOA's investment will help the company deploy full turnkey hydrogen solutions, creating…

Repsol joins international consortium to develop renewable hydrogen technology

Repsol S.A. (Madrid, Spain) has joined an international consortium to develop cutting-edge renewable hydrogen technology. The H24All project, led by a consortium of fifteen partners, has presented an application for European Green Deal funding to develop Europe’s first 100 megawatt…

KBR awarded study to support hydrogen-based energy supply for data center development

KBR, Inc. (Houston) announced that it has been awarded a study by Keppel Data Centres Holding Pte Ltd (Keppel Data Centres) to assess scenarios for alternative hydrogen-based energy sources to supply new data center investment and deployment in Singapore. Through…

Shin-Etsu to expand production capacity in Plaquemine, La.

Shin-Etsu Chemical Co.  (Tokyo) announced plans to further bolster the production capacity of Shintech Inc., its subsidiary in the U.S. In July 2018, Shintech broke ground in a greenfield site in Plaquemine, Louisiana for a new integrated plant, which is…

Mainstream Pine Products to build biorefinery in South Carolina

Mainstream Pine Products LLC announced plans for an estimated $90-million crude tall oil (CTO) biorefinery at the Charleston International Manufacturing Center (CIMC) in Berkeley County, S.C. The biorefinery will be a highly advanced recycling facility with capacity to process 110,000…

ECB Group signs major biofuel purchase and sale agreement with Shell

ECB Group Paraguay and Shell Trading (US) Co. have signed a multi-year contract that will provide more than 500 million liters/yr of renewable diesel and renewable jet fuel to Shell, one of the world's largest energy companies. The contract is…

ALPLA expands extrusion capacity in Italy for recycled PET materials

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…