The Global Impact Coalition (GIC; Geneva, Switzerland; www.globalimpactcoalition.com) today released a report on a pilot project that involves recycling plastics from end-of-life vehicles. The report (Closing the Loop on Automotive Plastics: From End-of-Life Vehicles to Circular Material Streams), outlines the…
Gevo, Inc. (Englewood, Colo.) has licensed two patented catalyst technologies from the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL; Oak Ridge, Tenn.) for use in the production of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). “This partnership will streamline the…
WPU, Vitol’s plastics recycling business, plans to build a new chemical recycling facility for end-of-life plastics at the Port of Rotterdam, alongside Vitol’s refinery, VPR. The new plant will have the capacity to process 80,000 tonnes a year of post-consumer…
Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.) announced that it has entered into a contract with X-Energy Reactor Com., LLC (Rockville, Md) to support the company’s proposed advanced nuclear project at Dow’s UCC Seadrift Operations in south Texas. Under the agreement, Fluor will…
TotalEnergies SE (Paris), and Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company PJSC – Masdar, a global clean energy leader, have signed a binding agreement to establish a $2.2 billion 50/50 joint venture (JV) that will merge their onshore renewable activities in nine…
Plug Power Inc. (Latham, N.Y.) announced it has been awarded the Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) contract to supply a 275 MW GenEco PEM electrolyzer system for Hy2gen Canada Inc.’s “Courant” project. The system represents one of the largest electrolyzer project…
XCF Global, Inc. (Houston) announced the execution of a commercial collaboration agreement with Axens North America, Inc., a leading global licensor of sustainable refining and biofuels technologies. This collaboration is anticipated to enable XCF to deploy its proprietary modular refinery…
ABB Inc. (Zurich, Switzerland) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Swedish textile impact company Syre to jointly explore technologies to support the development of Syre’s first textile-to-textile recycling plant in Vietnam. The agreement establishes a framework for collaboration…
French textile-to-textile regeneration company Reju has been awarded €135 million in funding under the Netherlands’ Nationale Investeringsregeling Klimaatprojecten Industrie (NIKI) program. The funding will support Reju’s planned industrial-scale Regeneration Hub at Chemelot Industrial Park in Sittard-Geleen, covering both the investment…
Utilizing waste plastics as feedstocks in circular processes requires a systems-based approach. Presented here are the challenges that must be overcome to make circular hydrocarbons investable, scalable and repeatable For more than a decade, the chemical process industries (CPI) has…