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Versalis collaborates with Prysmian on cable-scrap recycling process

Cable manufacturer Prysmian S.p.A. (Milan, Italy) and Versalis S.p.A., Eni’s chemical company, have signed a strategic partnership to give new life to plastic cable scrap, through an innovative chemical recycling process, developing a dedicated supply chain. Following this agreement, Prysmian…

Borealis partners with BlueAlp to advance chemical recycling

Borealis Group (Vienna, Austria) announced a strategic partnership with chemical-recycling technology company BlueAlp (Eindhoven, the Netherlands). The partnership will see Borealis transfer its majority share in Renasci, a chemical recycling company based in Ostend, Belgium, to BlueAlp, while acquiring a…

Plug Power installs electrolyzer system for green hydrogen project in Namibia

Plug Power Inc. (Latham, N.Y.) announced it has successfully installed a 5MW GenEco electrolyzer system for Cleanergy Solutions Namibia’s groundbreaking green hydrogen project. The Walvis Bay project plant, which officially opened in September, represents Africa’s first fully integrated commercial green…

NextChem inaugurates new plastics upcycling plant in Italy

NextChem (Maire; Milan, Italy; www.nextchem.com) inaugurated its new premises at MyReplast 30,000 square-meter upcycling plant in Bedizzole, Brescia, during a ceremony attended by local authorities and company top management. The new building includes meeting rooms and new offices, as well…

Mantel scales up molten-borate carbon capture with commercial-scale FEED study

Mantel Capture, a leading provider of energy-efficient and cost-effective carbon capture, announced initiation of a front-end engineering design (FEED) study for a commercial-scale project with a Canadian oil and gas producer. The initiative is supported by Alberta Innovates and will…

Lummus Technology and Advanced Ionics break ground on novel electrolyzer pilot plant

Lummus Technology (Houston) and Advanced Ionics (Milwaukee, Wis.), a low-cost green hydrogen technology provider, broke ground recently on a pilot plant for Advanced Ionics' cutting-edge electrolyzer technology. "By demonstrating Advanced Ionics' technology at our state-of-the-art R&D facility, we are leveraging…

Gasification pilot project will demonstrate the recycling of absorbent hygiene products

BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) and Essity AB (Stockholm, Sweden), a global leading hygiene and health company, joined forces with the Technical University of Wien to revolutionize recycling of absorbent hygiene products (AHP). The groundbreaking gasification pilot project proves that used…

Bio-based butadiene progresses toward commercialization

Axens (Rueil-Malmaison, France), IFP Energies Nouvellas (IFPEN; Rueil-Malmaison, France) and Michelin (Clermont-Ferrand, France) have announced significant advancements in the BioButterfly™ project, supported by ADEME, Région Nouvelle Aquitaine and Bordeaux Metropole, which aims to produce bio-based butadiene from bioethanol. Following the startup…

MHI produces hydrogen at its ammonia cracking pilot plant using steam heating

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI)), as part of its effort to develop an innovative ammonia cracking system, has succeeded in producing 99% pure hydrogen by cracking ammonia using steam as the heating source. The production of hydrogen at pilot scale…

Topsoe awarded FEED contract to supply solid-oxide electrolyzers for Carbon Neutral Fuels’ e-SAF project in the U.K.

Topsoe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark) has signed a Front-End Engineering and Design (FEED) agreement with Carbon Neutral Fuels (CNF) based on Topsoe’s state-of-the-art SOEC electrolyzers for CNF’s commercial-scale e-SAF project called Project Starling. Located in Workington, U..K, the Starling project is…