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Chevron Lummus Global starts up renewable base-oils plant for Novvi LLC

Chevron Lummus Global (CLG) is pleased to announce the successful startup of a 100% renewable base oil unit in Novvi's Deer Park, Houston facility that employs CLG's patented state-of-the-art ISODEWAXING catalyst and technology. Chevron, one of the joint venture parents…

Neste takes steps toward commercializing renewable gasoline in Sweden

Neste Corp. (Espoo, Finland) announced that it has entered the final phase of testing for renewable gasoline in Sweden and is now advancing the target to complete commercial tests of the fuel, and thereby enabling significant reductions of greenhouse gas…

Adnoc to build world-scale blue ammonia project

Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) announced that it will advance a world-scale “blue” ammonia production facility in Ruwais, Abu Dhabi, in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). ADNOC is an early pioneer in the emerging hydrogen market, driving the UAE’s…

BASF and RWE unveil plans to electrify Ludwigshafen chemicals site

BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) and RWE AG (Essen, Germany) have unveiled a project idea that envisions an additional offshore wind farm with a capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW) to provide BASF’s Ludwigshafen chemical site with green electricity and enable CO2-free…

Neste, Mitsui Chemicals and Toyota Tsusho join forces on renewable plastics production

Neste Corp. (Espoo, Finland), Mitsui Chemicals, Inc. (Tokyo) and Toyota Tsusho Corp. announced that they are joining forces to enable Japan’s first industrial-scale production of renewable plastics and chemicals from 100% bio-based hydrocarbons. In this collaboration, Mitsui Chemicals will use…

Siemens Energy, DEWA and Expo 2020 Dubai inaugurate industrial-scale green-H2 plant

Siemens Energy, in collaboration with Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) and Expo 2020 Dubai, has inaugurated the first industrial scale, solar-driven green hydrogen facility in the Middle East and North Africa. Located at DEWA’s Outdoor Testing Facility of the…

McPhy to locate electrolyzer gigafactory in Belfort, France

McPhy Energy S.A. (La Motte Fanjas, France) has selected Belfort, France to build its electrolyzer Gigafactory. The McPhy Gigafactory is a strategic tool to meet the challenges of competitiveness by further strengthening and perpetuating McPhy's leadership position in the alkaline…

Metso Outotec launches e-waste recycling portfolio

Metso Outotec Corp. (Helsinki, Finland) is introducing a comprehensive eScrap solutions portfolio for the smelting and refining of e-scrap derived from Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE). The solutions portfolio consists of Metso Outotec’s proven smelting, refining, hydrometallurgy, and gas-cleaning…

NextChem and Mytilineos to develop green H2 plant in Italy

 Maire Tecnimont S.p.A. (Milan, Italy) announced that its subsidiary NextChem and MYTILINEOS’ Renewable and Storage Development Business Unit (RSD BU) have signed an agreement to develop engineering activities for the implementation of a green hydrogen plant via electrolysis in Italy.  NextChem is Maire Tecnimont’s…

Umicore joins blockchain pilot project for sustainable cobalt traceability

Umicore N.V. (Brussels, Belgium) has announced that it is collaborating with major metals and mining companies CMOC, Eurasian Resources Group (ERG) and Glencore in a project piloting ReISource, a solution to trace responsibly produced cobalt from the mine to the…