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OMV and ALBA Recycling to collaborate on new waste-sorting plant for chemical recycling

OMV AG (Vienna, Austria) and ALBA Recycling have started exclusive discussions to jointly build and operate an innovative sorting plant in Walldürn, Germany, for the further sorting of mixed plastic waste for chemical recycling. A final investment decision is expected…

Scatec and Acme Group to build large-scale green ammonia complex in Oman

Scatec ASA (Oslo, Norway) signed an agreement with ACME Group (Haryana, India) to establish a 50/50 joint venture to design, develop, build, own and operate a large-scale green ammonia facility in Oman. The first phase of the facility is expected…

Air Products to build green hydrogen plant in Arizona

Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.) announced that it will build, own and operate a 10 metric ton per day facility to produce green liquid hydrogen in Casa Grande, Arizona. The zero-carbon liquid hydrogen facility is expected to be on-stream in…

WACKER and SFC Energy sign letter of intent on supply and distribution of renewable methanol

Wacker Chemie AG (Munich, Germany) and fuel-cell specialists SFC Energy AG have signed a letter of intent on the distribution of renewable methanol. The letter states that, starting in 2025, Wacker plans to supply SFC Energy with up to 2,000…

Repsol begins construction of Cartagena biofuels plant

Repsol S.A. (Madrid, Spain) announced the beginning of the construction works of the first advanced biofuels plant in Spain at the company’s Cartagena refinery. At the event, Repsol's Chairman, Antonio Brufau, was accompanied by the Director of the industrial complex,…

Alpla Group acquires German recycling company Texplast

ALPLA Group (Hard, Austria) announced that it has become one of the largest polyethylene terephthalate (PET) recycling companies in Germany. With the acquisition of the recycling company Texplast from the FROMM Group, and all of its shares in the joint…

Pertamina, Pupuk and Mitsubishi agree to develop Indonesia’s green hydrogen and ammonia value chain

PT Pertamina (Persero), PT Pupuk Indonesia (Persero), and Mitsubishi Corp. (Tokyo) agreed to develop the Green Hydrogen and Green Ammonia Value Chain and Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage (CCUS) businesses. This agreement aligns with the government's target of reducing emissions…

Nippon Shokubai obtains ISCC Plus certification for SAP in Europe

Nippon Shokubai Co. (Osaka, Japan) announced that it has obtained ISCC PLUS certification from the International Sustainability and Carbon Certification system (ISCC)for superabsorbent polymers (SAP) made from caustic soda produced using electricity generated from renewable energy by its subsidiary Nippon…

Cummins starts up H2 fuel-cell manufacturing site in Germany

Cummins Inc. (Indianapolis, Ind.) announced that its new Hydrogen Fuel Cell Systems Production Center in Herten, Germany, is in operation, further driving its alternative power scale-up and enabling accelerated adoption of hydrogen technologies across Europe. The facility has an initial…

Técnicas Reunidas and Axens sign an agreement to develop CCS projects

Técnicas Reunidas S.A. (TR; Madrid, Spain) and Axens (Rueil-Malmaison, France)have signed a collaboration agreement to jointly promote carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects and provide integrated solutions from the concept to the handover of the project, based on Axens technologies.…