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thyssenkrupp nucera awarded FEED study for 600-MW green-hydrogen project in Europe

Thyssenkrupp nucera AG & Co. KGaA (Dortmund, Germany) has been commissioned to carry out a Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) study for a large-scale hydrogen project in Europe. The planned water electrolysis plant will have a capacity of approximately 600 megawatts.…

Lummus and InnoVent Renewables join forces to promote tire recycling technology

Lummus Technology (Houston) and InnoVent Renewables announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to work toward licensing and deploying InnoVent's continuous tire pyrolysis technology globally. "This is another significant step in expanding and strengthening our portfolio for the…

Ineratec begins production at Europe’s largest e-fuels plant

Ineratec GmbH (Karlsruhe, Germany)  inaugurated ERA ONE, a Power-to-Liquid plant for the production of e-Fuels and e-Chemicals that will usher in a new era of sustainable mobility. The plant in Frankfurt-Höchst is the largest of its kind in Europe and…

BASF starts commercial-scale Black Mass plant at Schwarzheide battery-recycling site

BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) has successfully started the commercial operation of its Black Mass plant in Schwarzheide, Germany. This state-of-the-art facility represents a significant milestone for BASF’s battery recycling business. It is one of the biggest commercial Black Mass plants…

Sika and Sulzer to establish plastics recycling JV for the construction sector

Sika AG (Baar, Switzerland) and Sulzer Ltd. (Winterthur, Switzerland) have signed a memorandum of understanding to establish a joint venture (JV) to advance plastics recycling in the construction industry. The aim is to combine the strengths of both companies: Sika's…

Mitsubishi invests in e-scrap recycling company DEScycle Ltd.

Mitsubishi Corp. (MC; Tokyo) has agreed to acquire shares in e-scrap recycling company DEScycle Ltd. (Headquarters: UK), which has developed a proprietary technology for metal recovery from e-scrap. The two companies will also enter into a strategic business partnership to…

Saint-Gobain Glass and VEKA Recycling forge partnership to improve glass recycling

Saint-Gobain Glass has forged a new partnership with VEKA Recycling that represents a major advancement in sustainable construction and post-consumer glass recycling in the U.K. fenestration industry. Saint-Gobain has also been bolstering its glass-recycling capabilities in the U.S. with projects…

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Facts At Your Fingertips: Genetic Engineering Tools in Industrial Microbiology

Industrial fermentation using bacteria, yeast and other microbes to produce specific products has the potential to reduce future dependence on fossil-fuel-derived chemicals. To further the economic viability of industrial fermentation processes, engineers have turned to genetic modification to stimulate production…

RIC Energy and Siemens to jointly develop renewable hydrogen, green ammonia and e-fuels projects

RIC Energy (Madrid, Spain) and Siemens AG (Munich, Germany) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to jointly develop innovative projects in the fields of renewable hydrogen, green ammonia, and e-fuels in Spain. The collaboration will especially boost the sustainable…

Uniper and thyssenkrupp Uhde collaborating on industrial ammonia cracking for the hydrogen economy

Thyssenkrupp Uhde GmbH (Dortmund, Germany) and Uniper SE (Düsseldorf, Germany) are entering into a strategic partnership to bring a key technology for global hydrogen trading to industrial maturity: the large-scale ammonia cracker. In an ammonia cracker, ammonia is catalytically broken…