Plastic Energy Ltd. (London, U.K.; www.plasticenergy.com), a global leader in chemical recycling, is believed to be the first plastic chemical recycling company to commercialize ‘char,’ a byproduct of its TAC™ chemical recycling process, under the name TACFILLER. The breakthrough product…
Cabot Corporation (Boston, Mass.; www.cabotcorp.com) today announced that it has enhanced its manufacturing capabilities in North America for circular reinforcing carbons powered by its EVOLVE® Sustainable Solutions technology platform. With this milestone, Cabot's site in Ville Platte, Louisiana, USA joins…
Long-standing partners TotalEnergies (Paris, France; www.totalenergies.com) and Veolia (Aubervilliers, France; www.veolia.com) have signed a memorandum of understanding for further cooperation in several key areas of energy transition and the circular economy, in line with their respective approaches to reduce their…
Henkel Adhesive Technologies (Düsseldorf, Germany; www.henkel.com) and Dow (Midland, Mich.; www.dow.com) have expanded their long-standing strategic partnership to accelerate decarbonization in adhesives manufacturing across technologies. As a first step, low-carbon feedstocks and renewable electricity will be introduced into Henkel's hot…
The pioneering MultiPLHY project demonstrating renewable hydrogen production has reached a key milestone: The consortium partners have successfully started up the world's largest multi-megawatt high-temperature electrolyzer (HTE) in an industrial environment at Neste’s (Espoo, Finland; www.neste.com) renewable products refinery…
Topsoe (Lyngby, Denmark; www.topsoe.com), a leading global provider of advanced technology and solutions for the energy transition, has been selected as technology provider by Sandpiper Chemicals LLC, for their new blue methanol plant in Texas City, Texas. Topsoe will license…
Green Carbon Development, led by Process Technical Services (PTS; Houston, Tex.; www.processtechnicalservices.com), an established technical services provider to the refining and process industries, announced today that it has selected Axens (Rueil-Malmaison, France; www.axens.net) Vegan® technology for its upcoming renewable fuels…
INEOS (London, U.K.; www.ineos.com) has today confirmed its intention to shut two production units in Rheinberg, Germany, with the loss of 175 jobs. The proposed closures are the direct result of crippling energy and carbon costs, and a lack of…
In a move intended to accelerate Saudi Arabia’s leadership in downstream innovation, Aramco (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia; www.aramco.com), Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.; www.honeywell.com), and King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST; Thuwal, Saudi Arabia; www.kaust.edu.sa) have signed a joint…
Since its introduction in 1963, the Chemical Engineering Plant Cost Index® (CEPCI) has been tracking changes to construction costs for chemical manufacturing and related process facilities. The data from which the CEPCI is calculated come from a carefully selected and…