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ALPLA opens new PET recycling plant in Romania

ALPLA Group (Hard, Austria), together with its joint venture partners Ecohelp and UPT, has opened its first polyethylene terephthalate (PET) recycling plant in Romania after a construction time of nine months and investment of around 7.5 million euros. The state-of-the-art…

Equinor awards contracts to Linde for H2H Saltend hydrogen project

Equinor Energy AS (Stavanger, Norway) has awarded a Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) contract for H2H Saltend to Linde Engineering, and an operation and maintenance service contract to BOC. Linde Engineering together with BOC, both Linde companies, participated in a design…

Enapter to supply AEM electrolyzers for South Korean hydrogen project

 Enapter AG (Crespina Lorenzana (PI), Italy), together with its partner YEST, has received an order from South Korea for the delivery of two Anion-exchange membrane (AEM) electrolyzers with a total capacity of 2 megawatts. The systems will be used in…

Nippon Steel, Mitsubishi and ExxonMobil announce carbon capture partnership

Nippon Steel Corp., Mitsubishi Corp. and ExxonMobil Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd. have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to jointly study carbon capture and storage (CCS) and the establishment of potential CCS value chains in the Asia Pacific regions. Based on…

Velocys and Bechtel to collaborate on sustainable fuels projects

Velocys plc (Harwell, U.K.) announced the execution of a master relationship agreement (MRA) with Bechtel (Reston, Va.) The MRA sets out a route map for the parties to collaborate with each other with the objective of developing an EPC execution…

Sasol and Sonatrach announce project to produce hydrogen and low-carbon syngas in Italy

Sasol Italy and Sonatrach Raffineria Italiana have announced the "Hybla Project," which is an ambitious initiative that aims to build an innovative plant of significant capacity for the production of hydrogen and 'low carbon' syngas also capable of capturing and…

Tata Chemicals Europe signs low-carbon hydrogen offtake agreement

Tata Chemicals Europe (TCE) and Vertex Hydrogen have signed a ‘Heads of Terms’ offtake agreement for over 200 megawatts of low carbon hydrogen. TCE is one of Europe’s leading producers of sodium carbonate, salt, sodium bicarbonate and other products used…

Braskem America receives ISCC Plus certification for all U.S. polypropylene sites

Braskem S.A. (São Paulo, Brazil) announced that Braskem America has received International Sustainability & Carbon PLUS (ISCC PLUS) certification for all five of its polypropylene (PP) manufacturing facilities in the United States. Mark Nikolich, Chief Executive Officer of Braskem America,…

Topsoe and Steeper Energy to introduce new waste-to-biofuel technology platform

Topsoe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark) and Steeper Energy, a pioneer within biomass conversion technologies, have today signed a global licensing agreement for a complete waste-to-fuel solution. The agreement combines Topsoe’s unique technologies in renewable fuels and hydrogen production as well as…

Phillips 66’s Sweeny Refinery awarded certification to process waste oils into plastic feedstock

Phillips 66 Co. (Houston) announced it has received International Sustainability and Carbon Certification (ISCC) PLUS certification for its Sweeny Refinery in Texas to process oil made from waste plastics into feedstocks for new plastics. “Phillips 66 is committed to keeping…