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BASF calculates CO2 emissions footprint for all products

BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) has become the first chemical company to provide transparent emission data for the entire portfolio of approximately 45,000 products. BASF will provide its customers with total values of CO2 emissions, so called “carbon footprints” for all…

CE Voices: Improving Plastics Recyclability

In this edition of CE Voices, Chemical Engineering  Senior Associate Editor Mary Page Bailey sits down with Alan Schrob of NOVA Chemicals to discuss the company's development of a new polyethylene resin aimed at improving the recyclability of plastic films…

Consortium to evaluate green-hydrogen industrial cluster in Portugal

Portuguese energy company Galp joins EDP, Martifer, REN, Vestas and several other European partners to assess the feasibility of the H2 Sines project, which aims to implement an industrial cluster for green hydrogen production based in Sines. The project has…

BMW to partner with Northvolt and Umicore on LIB pilot plant

BMW Group has announced plans for a new pilot plant that will produce lithium-ion battery (LIB) cells. With this plant, the company is taking the next logical step in penetrating all aspects of the battery cell value chain: from selection…

Alliance to End Plastic Waste kicks off projects in Bali and India

The Alliance to End Plastic Waste and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), launch the Aviral – Reducing Plastic Waste in the Ganga pilot project. This initiative aims to reduce the amount of plastic waste entering the environment in the…

Synthomer awarded funding to improve LIB performance

Synthomer Plc (London, U.K.) and its partners have together been awarded £760,826 in funding from the ISCF Faraday Battery Challenge for a project focused on increasing the performance, manufacturability and environmental profile of lithium-ion battery (LIB) cells. This will be…

LanzaTech and NextChem to license waste-to-ethanol technology

 NextChem and U.S. carbon recycling company, LanzaTech (Skokie, Ill.) have signed an agreement to license the Waste to Ethanol process. NextChem thereby expands its circular economy and chemical recycling technologies, adding circular ethanol technology to its circular hydrogen and circular…

Europe’s largest industrial green-hydrogen project underway in Spain

Iberdrola (Bilbao, Spain) and Fertiberia (Madrid, Spain) have signed an agreement, which will trigger an investment of 150 million euros, to construct the largest plant to produce green hydrogen for industrial use in Europe. The Spanish companies are to build…

Linde and CNOOC sign MoU related to China’s hydrogen economy

Linde plc (Guildford, U.K.) announced that it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with China National Offshore Oil Corporation's (CNOOC) subsidiary, CNOOC Energy Technology & Services, to jointly develop the hydrogen energy industry in China. Together, both companies will…

Clariant and Eta Bio announce license agreement on sunliquid cellulosic-ethanol technology in Bulgaria

Clariant (Muttenz, Switzerland) and Eta Bio Ltd., a company of the Pavlovi family, running a leading business in the agricultural sector in Bulgaria, today announced that a license agreement for the "sunliquid" cellulosic-ethanol technology has been signed. Eta Bio has…