BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) has successfully started the commercial operation of its Black Mass plant in Schwarzheide, Germany. This state-of-the-art facility represents a significant milestone for BASF’s battery recycling business. It is one of the biggest commercial Black Mass plants…
Sika AG (Baar, Switzerland) and Sulzer Ltd. (Winterthur, Switzerland) have signed a memorandum of understanding to establish a joint venture (JV) to advance plastics recycling in the construction industry. The aim is to combine the strengths of both companies: Sika's…
Mitsubishi Corp. (MC; Tokyo) has agreed to acquire shares in e-scrap recycling company DEScycle Ltd. (Headquarters: UK), which has developed a proprietary technology for metal recovery from e-scrap. The two companies will also enter into a strategic business partnership to…
Saint-Gobain Glass has forged a new partnership with VEKA Recycling that represents a major advancement in sustainable construction and post-consumer glass recycling in the U.K. fenestration industry. Saint-Gobain has also been bolstering its glass-recycling capabilities in the U.S. with projects…
Industrial fermentation using bacteria, yeast and other microbes to produce specific products has the potential to reduce future dependence on fossil-fuel-derived chemicals. To further the economic viability of industrial fermentation processes, engineers have turned to genetic modification to stimulate production…
RIC Energy (Madrid, Spain) and Siemens AG (Munich, Germany) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to jointly develop innovative projects in the fields of renewable hydrogen, green ammonia, and e-fuels in Spain. The collaboration will especially boost the sustainable…
Thyssenkrupp Uhde GmbH (Dortmund, Germany) and Uniper SE (Düsseldorf, Germany) are entering into a strategic partnership to bring a key technology for global hydrogen trading to industrial maturity: the large-scale ammonia cracker. In an ammonia cracker, ammonia is catalytically broken…
Plug Power Inc. (Latham, N.Y.) announced that its hydrogen plant in Woodbine, Georgia produced 300 metric tons of liquid hydrogen in April 2025—the facility’s highest monthly output to date and a new benchmark for the U.S. hydrogen industry. The plant,…
DuPont (Wilmington, Del.) announced 100% of its grid electricity is from renewable sources across its entire European Union (E.U.) operations, through the use of Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs). This milestone underscores the company's commitment to achieving its renewable energy goal…
Hitachi Energy has delivered rectifier transformers for electrolytic hydrogen to a hydrogen-power technology park built by China Energy Engineering Corporation (CEEC) in Songyuan, a city in northeast China. The transformer solution helps ensure a reliable power supply for hydrogen production…