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Mantel and Wood join forces to scale high-temperature carbon-capture projects

Carbon-capture technology provider Mantel Capture announced a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Wood plc (Aberdeen, U.K.), a global leader in consulting, engineering and operations. Under the agreement, Mantel has designated Wood as its Preferred Technology Provider for fired equipment integration…

Sunfire to build electrolysis test facility at BASF site in Schwarzheide

Sunfire SE (Dresden, Germany) announced that it is joining the Industriepark Lausitz in Schwarzheide, Germany as a new innovation-driven partner. The hydrogen company will build a test facility at the industrial park to further validate its highly efficient solid oxide…

SkyKraft JV awarded 21 million euros to advance eSAF project in Sweden

SkyKraft (www.skykraft.se), the joint venture between SkyNRG (Amsterdam, the Netherlands; www.skynrg.com) and the Swedish power company Skellefteå Kraft (Skellefteå, Sweden; www.skekraft.se), has been awarded around €21 million. from the Swedish Energy Agency’s Industriklivet Initiative (www.industriklivet.se). While Project SkyKraft is grounded…

MOL Group expands biogas plant with biomethane unit

MOL Group (Budapest, Hungary; www.molgroup.info) is expanding the Szarvas Biogas Plant with a biomethane unit. As a result of the development, the plant is able to produce biomethane from biogas of such purity that it can be fed into the…

Aternium selects Siemens Energy for FEED study of clean hydrogen production facility

Aternium, Inc. (Wilmington, Del.; www.aternium.com) is pleased to announce a critical partner for its Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) study for a clean hydrogen production facility. This milestone marks a significant step forward in Aternium’s mission to drive innovation and sustainability…

LanzaTech selects North Sea Port as site of commercial-scale SAF facility

North Sea Port (Ghent, Belgium; www.northseaport.com) announced that LanzaTech Global, Inc. (Skokie, Ill.; www.lanzatech.com), a member of the FLITE (Fuel via Low carbon Integrated Technology from Ethanol) consortium, has selected North Sea Port, Ghent, Belgium as the permanent site for…

Worley awarded contract for developing lithium hexafluorophosphate facility in Louisiana

Worley (Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; www.worley.com) has been awarded an engineering and design services contract by Orbia Fluor & Energy Materials (Waltham, Mass.; www.orbia-fem.com) to support the development of a lithium hexafluorophosphate (LiPF₆) production facility at Orbia’s site in…

UPM acquires intellectual property from Avatium for bio-based glycols

Materials company UPM (Helsinki, Finland; www.upm.com) today announced that it has reached an agreement with Avantium N.V. (Amsterdam, the Netherlands; www.avantium.com) to acquire the intellectual property related to Avantium's Ray Technology®, a process for the production of bio-based mono-ethylene glycol…

Nouryon launches new technology for recycled polypropylene applications

Nouryon (Amsterdam, the Netherlands) has introduced Perkadox PM-60ST-GR, a new organic peroxide technology for recycled polypropylene — one of the world's most widely used plastics — that is designed to restore performance in degraded, recycled plastic material. The first commercially…

Charbone opens new hydrogen hub in Albany

Charbone Hydrogen Corp. (Brossard, Que., Canada) announced the opening of its third Hub, and first in the United States, located in Albany, New York State. This new Hub, operated by its subsidiary Charbone Corporation USA, represents a major strategic step…