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Orlen announces startup of Europe’s largest plant producing ‘green’ propylene glocol

ORLEN Południe, an ORLEN Group company, has brought onstream Poland’s first and Europe’s largest green propylene glycol production unit at its biorefinery in Trzebinia. The unit has a capacity of 30,000 tons per year, enough to cover as much as…

RWE and Shell sign MOU for green hydrogen, decarbonization projects

Shell New Energies NL BV (Shell) and RWE AG (Essen, Germany) intend to jointly advance projects for the production, use and distribution of green hydrogen as well as further options to decarbonize RWE gas and biomass-fired power plants in northwest…

Johnson Matthey and Hystar collaborate on development of advanced electrolyzers for green hydrogen

Johnson Matthey plc (London) announced a Memorandum of Understanding with newly established Norwegian company Hystar AS, a high-tech spin-out from Sintef (Trondheim, Norway), one of Europe’s largest independent research institutions. Hystar is backed by AP Ventures, a significant investor focused…

Large waste-to-biofuels project underway in the U.K.

Advanced Biofuel Solutions Ltd. (ABSL; Swindon, U.K.), a developer and producer of advanced biofuels, and Greenergy International Ltd., a leading manufacturer and supplier of waste-based biofuels, announced the signing of a Joint Development Agreement to develop, construct and operate up…

Velocys announces major SAF offtake agreements for Bayou Fuels biorefinery

Velocys plc (Harwell, U.K.) announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, Velocys Renewables LLC, has entered into its first offtake agreement for the sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) to be produced at the planned Bayou Fuels biorefinery project in Mississippi, USA. with…

Vattenfall, Shell and LanzaTech studying large-scale SAF production in Sweden

Vattenfall AB (Stockholm, Sweden), Shell and LanzaTech (Skokie, Ill.) will collaborate with Scandinavian airline SAS to investigate the production of the world’s first synthetic sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) using the LanzaJet “Alcohol to Jet” technology on a large scale in…

Plug Power to acquire Frames Group

Plug Power (Latham, N.Y.) signed a definitive agreement to acquire Frames Group B.V. (Alphen aan den Rijn, the Netherlands), a leader in turnkey systems integration for the energy sector. With over 35 years of experience, Frames designs, builds, and delivers processing…

Evonik develops new chemical recycling process for polyurethane foam

Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany) announced that it has developed an efficient chemical recycling process for converting flexible polyurethane (PU) foams back to the original polyol raw material. Evonik’s new hydrolysis recycling process has the potential to achieve circularity in…

ALPLA starts up HDPE recycling plant in Mexico

ALPLA Group (Hard, Austria)  has opened a new plant for high-density polyethylene (HDPE)  plastic recycling in Toluca, Mexico. At the same time, the company has announced it will double its annual regrind material production capacity to 30,000 tons in the…

Clariant and Technip Energies awarded two contracts for new SMR technology

Clariant AG (Muttenz, Switzerland) and Technip Energies (Paris) have announced a breakthrough in steam methane reforming (SMR) that reduces the CO2 footprint of the process up to 20%. Being the acronym of “enhanced annular reforming tube for hydrogen,” EARTH technology has…