The Global Impact Coalition (GIC), a CEO-led collaborative platform originally incubated at the World Economic Forum, has launched the world’s first Automotive Plastics Circularity pilot together with seven global leaders in the chemical and recycling industries—BASF, Covestro, LyondellBasell, Mitsubishi Chemical…
Wood plc (Aberdeen, U.K.) has been selected to provide operations and maintenance solutions for MTR Carbon Capture at the world’s largest membrane-based carbon capture plant in Gillette, Wyoming. The facility, which is based at the Wyoming Integrated Test Center (ITC)…
Zeon Corp. (Tokyo) and Yokohawa Rubber Co. (Hiratsuka, Japan) have agreed to establish a bench-scale facility to demonstrate a new technology for producing butadiene from ethanol derived from plant-based and other sustainable materials with high efficiency. The facility will be…
Air Liquide S.A. (Paris) has announced two large-scale electrolyzer projects to produce renewable and low-carbon hydrogen in Europe. In the first project, ELYgator, an Air Liquide 200-MW electrolyzer will supply both TotalEnergies’ industrial platform and other European industrial and heavy-duty…
MOL Group (Budapest, Hungary) has produced a diesel fuel containing hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO), and sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) at the refinery of Slovnaft in Bratislava. The quality of the products has been verified by radioisotope analysis by the independent…
LG Chem Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea) is entering the global market with eco-friendly raw materials derived from vegetable oils. The company announced that it will commence the production of bio-acrylic acid in the second quarter of this year. Production capacity…
Accelera by Cummins, the zero-emissions business segment of Cummins Inc. (Columbus, Ind.), will supply a 100-megawatt (MW) proton exchange membrane (PEM) electrolyzer system for bp's Lingen green-hydrogen project in Germany. This project, bp's largest hydrogen production plant to date, will…
Gevo, Inc. (Englewood, Colo.) and Axens (Rueil-Malmaison, France) have formed a new strategic alliance to accelerate development and commercialization of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) using the ethanol-to-jet (ETJ) pathway. The goal of the alliance is to leverage the most advantaged…
Sasol Ltd. (Johannesburg, South Africa), Anglo American (London, U.K.) and De Beers Group (Antwerp, Belgium) entered into a Joint Development Agreement (JDA) to pilot the production of feedstock for renewable diesel. This is an important initiative for both companies as…
Uniper SE (Düsseldorf, Germany) and Kyuden International Corp. (Tokyo, Japan), a member of the Kyuden Group, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to explore collaboration in hydrogen and ammonia trading activities, renewable energy and carbon capture utilization and storage (CCUS)…