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Air Products and Baker Hughes to collaborate on hydrogen-compression technologies

Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.) and Baker Hughes (Houston) have announced a strategic global collaboration to develop next-generation hydrogen compression to lower the cost of production and accelerate the adoption of hydrogen as a zero-carbon fuel. As part of the…

Chevron Lummus Global and ARA awarded technology contract for renewable fuels project in Iowa

Chevron Lummus Global (CLG) and Applied Research Associates, Inc. (ARA)  announced that the companies have been awarded a technology contract by ReadiFuels-Iowa, LLC for their renewable diesel and sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) project in Sioux Center, Iowa. The scope of…

Air Products to build world-scale blue-hydrogen plant in Edmonton, Canada

Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.) and its subsidiary Air Products Canada Ltd., in conjunction with the Government of Canada and the Province of Alberta, announced a multi-billion dollar plan to build a landmark new net-zero hydrogen energy complex that will…

Sumitomo Chemical announces new recycling alliance

Sumitomo Chemical Co. (Tokyo, Japan) has agreed to start studying a possible business alliance with Rever Holdings Corp., a major Japanese integrated recycling company engaged in the management of scrap metal and other recyclable waste from used cars and home…

NextChem and SMS partner to promote low-carbon technologies for the steel industry

NextChem, a subsidiary of Maire Tecnimont S.p.A. (Milan, Italy), and Paul Wurth, a company of the SMS Group and leading technology provider for the steel industry, will join forces to promote the combined use of electrolysis and syngas production in the iron and…

Metso Outotec to deliver technologies for precious-metals recycling plant

Metso Outotec Corp. (Helsinki, Finland) has received an order for the engineering and delivery of key equipment for the expansion of a precious-metals recycling plant. Metso Outotec’s equipment delivery consists of a direct-current (DC) furnace with feeding equipment and process…

Bechtel and Drax partner on bioenergy with carbon-capture projects

Bechtel (Reston, Va.) has entered into a partnership with renewable energy company Drax Group  to identify opportunities to construct new Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS) power plants around the world. Drax currently has the largest decarbonization project in…

Covestro and carboNXT partner to tackle fiber-reinforced polycarbonate recycling

Covestro AG (Leverkusen, Germany) is cooperating with recycling specialist carboNXT to tackle the recycling of Covestro’s continuous fiber-reinforced polycarbonate composites (CFRTPs). Covestro’s Maezio brand of CFRTPs are characterized by their extremely light weight, high strength and flexibility of design.  This means…

Cargill and HELM join forces to build commercial-scale plant for renewable BDO

Cargill, Inc. (Minneapolis, Minn.)  and chemical marketing company HELM (Hamburg, Germany) are entering into a joint venture, Qore, to help leading brands replace fossil-based chemistries with bio-based intermediates, enabling them to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. As part of the…

Brightmark to build $680-million advanced plastics-recycling plant in Georgia

Brightmark (San Francisco, Calif.) announced that it will build the world’s largest advanced plastics recycling and renewal facility in Macon-Bibb County, Georgia. The total investment is expected to be more than $680 million in a new plant intended to fully…