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Cyclyx International progress construction on Circularity Center in Houston

Cyclyx International, LLC (The Woodlands, Tex.) has reached construction milestones at their first Cyclyx Circularity Center in Houston. The project is well underway, with all major civil and structural work now complete. The company is also implementing strategic organizational changes…

Calpine and ExxonMobil sign CO2 transportation and storage agreement for power generation project

Exxon Mobil Corp. (Houston) announced an agreement with Calpine Corp. (Houston), the nation’s largest producer of electricity from natural gas, to transport and permanently store up to 2 million metric tons per year (m.t./yr) of CO2 from Calpine’s Baytown Energy…

Recently Published Books for the CPI: May 2025

The following are recently published titles that may be relevant to the chemical process industries (CPI): Microbial Biotechnology: Integrated Microbial Engineering for B3—Bioenergy, Bioremediation and Bioproducts. Edited by Maulin Shah and Kiran Bala, Elsevier Press, 2025, 400 pages, $195.50.    …

Lhyfe receives 149-million-euro grant for green hydrogen production plant in France

Lhyfe (Nantes, France; www.lhyfe.com), a world pioneer in the production of green and renewable hydrogen for mobility and industry, announces that the French Prime Minister has officially confirmed, by signature, a €149 million grant for its future green hydrogen production…

Neptune Energy produces battery-grade lithium carbonate from gas-field brine using KBR technology

KBR (Houston, Tex.; www.kbr.com) is proud to partner with Neptune Energy (London, U.K.; www.neptuneenergy.de) to produce battery-grade lithium carbonate (Li₂CO₃) from gas field brine at the Altmark site in Germany, utilizing KBR’s proprietary PureLi® refining and conversion technology. Li2CO3 is…

Syensqo and Sinopec collaborate on advanced materials and specialty chemicals

Syensqo, a leader in advanced materials and specialty chemicals, and China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation (Sinopec) have signed a Strategic Partnership Framework Agreement to foster collaboration in advanced materials and specialty chemicals. The partnership is set to explore business development opportunities and…

Asahi Kasei starts joint demonstration project for recycling metals from electrolyzer components

Asahi Kasei Corp. (Tokyo) has started a joint demonstration with Nobian, Furuya Metal, and Mastermelt on the recycling of metals, including precious metals, used in the cells and electrodes incorporated in electrolyzers used for the production of caustic soda. Through…

Cyclic Materials to build first commercial magnet-recycling facility in Arizona

Cyclic Materials Inc. (Toronto, Ont., Canada) announced it has invested over $20 million in its first commercial facility, located in Mesa, Arizona. The new state-of-the-art facility will be the company’s first global REE recycling operation focused on the separation of…

Actilium breaks ground on the U.K.’s first large-scale battery-recycling plant

Altilium Metals Ltd. (Plymouth, U.K.) announced that construction has begun on the U.K.’s first at-scale EV battery recycling facility with integrated chemical refining capabilities, located in Plymouth, Devon. The groundbreaking ACT 3 scale-up plant will place the UK at the…

Technip Energies awarded FEED contract for Jet Zero Australia SAF project

Technip Energies (Paris) has been awarded a Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) contract by Jet Zero Australia Pty Ltd (Jet Zero) for Project Ulysses, a bioethanol to sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) project located in Townsville, Australia.  The FEED covers an extensive…