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Facts At Your Fingertips: How Purification Unlocks Advanced Chemical Recycling

Chemical recycling refers to a set of technologies that convert plastic waste into raw materials by breaking down long polymer chains into shorter molecules (monomers), enabling the creation new chemicals, fuels or virgin-quality plastics. Key chemical recycling methods for plastics…

Facts At Your Fingertips: Hydrogen Safety Risks and Fire Protection

Hydrogen requires careful handling. It is colorless, odorless and highly flammable across a broad range of concentrations. As the lightest gas, it rises quickly and can accumulate in hard-to-detect areas. Without proper precautions, even a small leak can lead to…

Energy Vault, PG&E complete world’s first ultra-long-duration hybrid battery +hydrogen energy-storage microgrid

Energy Vault Holdings Inc., a leader in sustainable, grid-scale energy storage solutions, and Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E), a subsidiary of PG&E Corporation (NYSE: PCG), today announced the successful completion and commercial operation of the Calistoga Resiliency Center (CRC),…

Porsche, BASF and BEST complete chemical recycling pilot project

Porsche AG and BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany), in collaboration with technology partner BEST - Bioenergy and Sustainable Technologies GmbH, have successfully completed a pilot project on recycling mixed waste from end-of-life vehicles. The pilot project demonstrates the recyclability of high-performance…

X-ELIO starts up renewable-power plant to support BASF Freeport operations

X-ELIO (Madrid, Spain) launched operations at its Liberty Energy Project in Dayton, Texas. The Liberty project, which combines 72 MW of solar photovoltaic (PV) capacity with an additional 60 MW of battery storage capacity, is X-ELIO's first combined solar PV…

FUJIFILM Biotechnologies opens commercial-scale cell-culture manufacturing site in North Carolina

FUJIFILM Biotechnologies (Morrisville, N.C.; fujifilmbiotechnologies.fujifilm.com) yesterday celebrated the grand opening of its manufacturing site in Holly Springs, North Carolina. The newest addition to FUJIFILM Biotechnologies’ global network represents one of the largest commercial-scale cell culture biomanufacturing sites in North America.…

Eni unveils new biorefinery project in Italy

San Donato Milanese (MI), 23 September 2025 – Eni (San Donato Milanese, Italy; www.eni.com) announces that it has received approval from the Italian Ministry of the Environment and Energy Security to convert selected units at the Sannazzaro de’ Burgondi (Pavia) refinery…

Topsoe leads consortium on CO2-utilization for food

Topsoe (Lyngby, Denmark; www.topsoe.com), a leading global provider of advanced technology and solutions for the energy transition, is part of a consortium funded by the Gates Foundation and the Novo Nordisk Foundation that aims to transform CO2 into nutritious food. This…

Bureau Veritas extends renewable hydrogen certification capabilities

Bureau Veritas announced its designation as an official certification body for the CertifHy EU RFNBO (Renewable Fuels of Non-Biological Origin) Voluntary Scheme. This achievement marks the second CertifHy certification collaboration for Bureau Veritas, following our successful recognition for the CertifHy…

Scientists develop a solid electrolyte that overcomes major limitations of hydrogen storage

A hydrogen-storage battery that operates at just 90°C has been developed by researchers from Institute of Science Tokyo, overcoming the high-temperature and low-capacity limits of earlier methods. The device works by moving hydride ions through a solid electrolyte, allowing magnesium…