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Major green-hydrogen plant slated for Germany’s Baltic Coast

HH2E AG (Hamburg, Germany) and the MET Group (Zug, Switzerland) have announced a partnership to develop one of the largest green hydrogen production plants in Europe to date in Lubmin/Mecklenburg-Vorpommern on the German Baltic coast. The project aims to construct…

Origin Materials and Kuraray enter partnership to commercialize carbon-negative polymer materials

Origin Materials, Inc. (West Sacramento, Calif.) and Kuraray Co. (Tokyo) announced a strategic partnership to commercialize advanced carbon-negative materials for diverse polymer applications. As part of the strategic partnership, Kuraray signed a capacity reservation agreement with Origin Materials to purchase…

Clariant produces first commercial cellulosic ethanol at new plant in Romania

Clariant AG (Muttenz, Switzerland) announced that it has produced the first commercial cellulosic ethanol at its sunliquid production plant in Podari, Romania. The entire offtake is contracted with a multi-year agreement to Shell. Over the last six months, the plant…

Terrestrial Energy and KBR sign agreement to develop zero-emissions hydrogen and ammonia production processes

Terrestrial Energy  (Oakville, Ont., Canada) announced that it has signed an agreement with KBR, Inc. (Houston) to investigate the application of zero-emission thermal energy for hydrogen and ammonia production. Through the collaboration, KBR’s market-leading energy advisory services team and Terrestrial…

Honeywell and EnLink Midstream partner on Gulf Coast carbon-capture projects

Honeywell International, Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.) and EnLink Midstream, LLC (Dallas, Tex.) announced they will work together to deliver carbon capture solutions to industrial-scale carbon dioxide (CO2) emitters within the U.S. Gulf Coast area. The Honeywell and EnLink relationship will focus on…

Perstorp to convert base polyols production to more environmentally friendly grades

To reduce greenhouse gas emissions for its polyol customers and downstream value chains, Perstorp AB (Malmö, Sweden) announced that it is converting all base polyols produced at their Perstorp, Sweden plant – Pentaerythritol (Penta), Neopentyl glycol (Neo) and Trimethylolpropane (TMP)…

Plug Power to build green-hydrogen plant in Belgium

Plug Power Inc. (Latham, N.Y.) will build a 35-ton-per-day green-hydrogen generation plant at Port of Antwerp-Bruges, Belgium. Plug signed a 30-year concession agreement to build the plant at the Belgian port, the second largest in Europe. Plug plans to erect…

Worley awarded FEED contract for U.K. low-carbon-fuels project

Worley (North Sydney, Australia) was awarded a front-end engineering and design (FEED) services contract by Alfanar for a low‑carbon fuels project in Teesside, U.K. Alfanar’s Lighthouse Green Fuels project will convert residual solid waste into sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) and green…

New waste-to-hydrogen facility planned in Egypt

The General Authority for Suez Canal Economic Zone (SCZONE) signed a memorandum of understanding with H2-Industries Inc. to build a new Waste-to-Hydrogen facility at a new greenfield site in East Port Said, Egypt, a project with an estimated cost of…

KBR invests $100 million in plastics recycler Mura Technology

KBR, Inc. (Houston) has entered into an agreement to invest an additional $100 million in Mura Technology bringing KBR's aggregate investment in Mura to 18.5%. This investment provides Mura incremental capital to accelerate development of its plastics recycling projects and…