CropEnergies AG (Mannheim, Germany) and Johnson Matthey plc (London) have entered into an engineering, license and technical services agreement for a plant to allow CropEnergies AG to produce renewable ethyl acetate from sustainable ethanol near its production site in Zeitz,…
Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium) and Trillium Renewable Chemicals have signed a letter of intent to develop the supply chain for bio-based acrylonitrile (bio-ACN). Trillium will supply Solvay with bio-ACN from Trillium’s planned commercial asset, and Solvay will evaluate bio-ACN for…
Neste Corp. (Espoo, Finland) has successfully concluded its first series of trial runs processing liquefied waste plastic at its Porvoo refinery in Finland. After kicking the series off with its first-ever industrial scale trial run with liquefied waste plastic in…
Plastic Energy and TotalEnergies have announced a new agreement to promote the development of advanced plastic recycling. Under this agreement, Plastic Energy plans to build a second advanced recycling plant in Sevilla, Spain, in addition to their existing operational plant,…
Wastefront AS (Oslo, Norway) announced Technip Energies (Paris, France) as its engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) partner for the build of its £100 million tire-recycling plant in Sunderland. Technip Energies was selected following a competitive Project Analysis and Execution Pathway…
Veolia has announced plans for its first electric-vehicle (EV) battery recycling facility in the U.K., which will have the capacity to process 20% of the U.K.’s end of life electric vehicle batteries by 2024. Many of the materials required for…
ExxonMobil Corp. (Irving, Tex.) is expanding its interests in biofuels that can help reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the transportation sector, acquiring a 49.9% stake in Biojet AS, a Norwegian biofuels company that plans to convert forestry and wood-based construction…
SK Geo Centric (SKGC), a subsidiary of SK Innovation (Seoul, South Korea) and PureCycle Technologies, Inc. (Orlando, Fla.), an advanced recycling company revolutionizing plastic waste, signed a non-binding head of agreement (HOA) to open Asia’s first recycled polypropylene (PP) plant…
Thyssenkrupp Uhde Chlorine Engineers GmbH, Dortmund, Germany has signed a supply contract with Shell for the large-scale project ‘Hydrogen Holland I’ in the port of Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Under the contract, thyssenkrupp Uhde Chlorine Engineers will engineer, procure and fabricate…
Johnson Matthey plc (JM; London) has launched an innovative technology –HyCOgen – designed to play a pivotal role in enabling the conversion of captured carbon dioxide (CO2) and green hydrogen into sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). By combining HyCOgen with the…