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Shell starts up 20-MW green-hydrogen electrolyzer in China

Shell plc has started operations at the power-to-hydrogen electrolyzer in Zhangjiakou, a joint venture between Shell (China) Limited and Zhangjiakou City Transport Construction Investment Holding Group Co. Ltd. With this startup, one of the world’s largest hydrogen electrolyzers began production…

Linde Engineering to Build 24-MW PEM Electrolyzer Plant for Yara

Linde Engineering (Pullach, Germany) has signed an agreement with Yara ASA (Oslo, Norway) for the construction and delivery of a 24-MW green hydrogen plant. In December 2021, Yara was granted funding for the development of the initial plant by Enova.…

Pensana and Equinor collaborate to recycle end-of-life magnets from wind turbines

Pensana plc (London) and Equinor Energy AS (Stavanger, Norway) have signed a cooperation agreement to form a working group  to share technical and commercial information to develop a low energy method for recycling of end-of-life magnets at Pensana’s rare earth…

Sulzer Chemtech to provide technology for Encina’s waste-plastics-to-aromatics plant

Sulzer Chemtech (Winterthur, Switzerland) has finalized an agreement with Encina Development Group, LLC. Sulzer Chemtech will provide technology to recover high purity circular aromatics from cracked oil products derived from Encina’s mixed-plastics-to-aromatics catalytic conversion platform. Encina’s 1000 ton/d waste plastics…

Honeywell forms JV with Avangard Innovative to build advanced recycling plant in Texas

Honeywell (Charlotte, N.C.) announced its intent to form a joint venture (JV) with Avangard Innovative to build an advanced recycling plant in Texas. The facility will use Honeywell's recently announced UpCycle Process Technology to transform end-of-life plastic waste into recycled…

Technip Energies acquires process technology for corn-based monoethylene glycol

Technip Energies (Paris) and Iowa Corn announced that the Iowa Corn Promotion Board (ICPB) and Technip Energies have signed an Asset Purchase Agreement under which Technip Energies acquires ICPB’s patents, technology, and rights for the process technology to produce monoethylene…

KBR awarded engineering contract for Biojet’s renewable energy project in Norway

KBR, Inc. (Houston)announced that it has been awarded an engineering contract by Biojet AS for a concept study for its renewable energy facility in Ringerike, Norway.  Under the terms of the contract, KBR will perform technology evaluations, early engineering and project…

Toray commercializes nylon grade with 100% bio-based synthetic polymers

Toray Industries, Inc. (Tokyo, Japan) announced that it has developed a nylon 510 (N510) fiber that incorporates 100% biobased synthetic polymer content as defined under section 3.1.5 of ISO 16620-1: 2015, the international standard for the biobased content of plastics.…

Microsoft invests $50 million in LanzaJet SAF production plant

LanzaJet, a sustainable fuels technology company and renewable fuels producer, announced it has secured financing for its Freedom Pines Fuels plant in Soperton, Georgia, through the Microsoft Climate Innovation Fund. The Microsoft Climate Innovation Fund has made a $50 million…

Asahi Kasei to produce acrylonitrile using biomass-derived raw material

Asahi Kasei Corp. (Tokyo, Japan) announced that, Tongsuh Petrochemical Corp., Ltd. (TSPC), a wholly owned subsidiary in South Korea, acquired ISCC PLUS certification for its acrylonitrile (AN) as a sustainable product, and production of AN using biomass-derived propylene is scheduled…