Avantium N.V. (Amsterdam. The Netherlands) has formed the PEF Textile Community with the five reputable global companies Antex, BekaertDeslee, Chamatex, Kvadrat and Salomon. Avantium and Antex have already worked together on producing yarns made from PEF (polyethylene furanoate), a renewable…
Johnson Matthey plc (JM; London) is launching Cleanpace, a suite of technologies to retrofit existing grey hydrogen and methanol assets and reduce carbon emissions by up to 95%. Working together, JM is integrating its established Advanced Reforming technologies with leading…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) will build a commercial scale battery-recycling black-mass plant in Schwarzheide, Germany. This investment strengthens BASF’s cathode active materials (CAM) production and recycling hub in Schwarzheide. The site is an ideal location for the build-up of battery…
Fashion and textile technology company Infinited Fiber Co. (Espoo, Finland) plans to build a commercial-scale factory to produce regenerated textile fiber for the world’s leading apparel companies at the site of renewable materials company Stora Enso’s closed Veitsiluoto paper mill…
SK Geo Centric (Seoul, South Korea), Neste Corp. (Espoo, Finland) and Covestro AG (Leverkusen, Germany) are cooperating to enable the production of a major polyurethane raw material based on renewable raw materials via mass balance. The cooperation will see Neste…
ExxonMobil Corp. (Houston) announced a unique process technology to enable the manufacture of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) from renewable methanol. “ExxonMobil is advancing integrated solutions to extend our Carbon Capture & Storage (CCS) and Hydrogen capabilities to support the decarbonization…
Genomatica, Inc. (Geno; San Diego, Calif.) and Unilever (London) have launched a venture to scale and commercialize alternatives to palm oil and fossil fuel-derived cleansing ingredients. These are integral to the formulations of thousands of everyday cleaning and personal care…
Shell Chemicals and Dow have started up an experimental unit to electrically heat steam cracker furnaces at the Energy Transition Campus Amsterdam, The Netherlands. This represents a key milestone in the companies’ joint technology program to electrify steam cracking furnaces,…
bp plc (London) agreed to acquire a 40.5% equity stake in and to become operator of the Asian Renewable Energy Hub (AREH), which has the potential to be one of the largest renewables and green hydrogen hubs in the world.…
The Lenzing Group (Lenzing, Austria), a provider of wood-based specialty fibers for the global textile and nonwoven industries, has joined the chemical industry’s sustainable supply chain initiative, Together for Sustainability (TfS). Together with Lenzing, numerous internationally active chemical companies have…