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Fluor announces startup of renewable-fuels facility in Canada

Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.) announced that one of its projects reached a major milestone recently with the production startup of the Braya Renewable Fuels facility in Come by Chance, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Fluor provided engineering and procurement (EP) services…

Topsoe to build a new factory in Virginia for solid-oxide electrolyzer cells

Topsoe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark) announced plans to build a cutting-edge factory in Chesterfield, Virginia. The factory will manufacture advanced, energy efficient Solid Oxide Electrolyzer Cells (SOEC) that are essential to the efficient production of clean hydrogen and derivatives like eAmmonia…

LyondellBasell and Genox open new plastics-recycling JV in China

LyondellBasell Industries N.V. (Rotterdam, the Netherlands) announced the opening of the plastics recycling joint venture (JV) in Zhaoqing, Guangdong Province in Southern China with Genox Recycling (Genox). The plastic recycling plant will use mechanical recycling technology to recycle plastic waste…

Neste annouces first success in processing pyrolysis oil from discarded tires

In its efforts to advance chemical recycling, Neste Corp. (Espoo, Finland) has successfully conducted its first processing trial run with a new challenging raw material, liquefied discarded tires. In the processing run, Neste produced high-quality raw material for new plastics…

Linde to build 5-MW electrolyzer for green-hydrogen production in Brazil

Linde plc (Guilford, U.K.) announced that its subsidiary White Martins will build, own and operate a second electrolyzer to produce green hydrogen for the southeast region of Brazil. The five-megawatt pressurized alkaline electrolyzer plant will be located next to the…

BASF, SABIC and Linde start up first large-scale electric steam-cracking furnace

BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany), SABIC (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) and Linde plc (Guildford, U.K.) have inaugurated the world’s first demonstration plant for large-scale electrically heated steam cracking furnaces. Following three years of development, engineering, and construction work, the regular operation of…

Vitol acquires BioMethane Partners to form new landfill-gas conversion entity

Vitol (Geneva, Switzerland) announced the acquisition of renewable energy company, BioMethane Partners, to form Vitol BioMethane (VBM). VBM is a Texas-based landfill-gas-to-energy company, whose leadership has more than 100 years of combined experience in designing, building, and operating gas collection…

BASF starts up prototype battery-recycling facility at Schwarzheide site

BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) has successfully started operating its prototype metal refinery for battery recycling in Schwarzheide, Germany. The state-of-the-art plant allows for the development of operational procedures and the optimization of innovative battery recycling technology, processing end-of-life lithium-ion batteries…

Topsoe to provide renewable-fuels process technologies for Cepsa and Bio-Oils

Topsoe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark) signed an agreement with Cepsa  (Madrid, Spain) under which  Topsoe will provide its HydroFlex technology for the production of SAF and renewable diesel at Cepsa and Bio-Oils’ new second-generation biofuels plant in Palos de la Frontera,…

Wood selected as key contractor for large-scale Teesside carbon-capture project

Wood plc (Aberdeen, Scotland) has been selected as a contractor by Net Zero Teesside Power (NZT Power) and Northern Endurance Partnership (NEP) for integrated project management services. NZT Power, which aims to be one of the world’s first commercial scale…