Ascend Elements is partnering with South Korea-based SK ecoplant and its e-waste recycling subsidiary, TES, to build a $65 million lithium-ion battery recycling facility in Hopkinsville, Ky. The 100,000-square-foot EV battery recycling facility will disassemble and shred approximately 24,000 metric…
Bp plc (London) has started construction on its 187MWdc Peacock Solar project, located 10 miles north of Corpus Christi in San Patricio County, Texas, helping support the global transition to lower carbon energy. Peacock will sell all of the electricity…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) is expanding its growing portfolio of 14C bio-based monomers with a proprietary process for production of 2-Octyl Acrylate (2-OA). The new product underlines BASF’s strong commitment to innovation for a sustainable future with 73% 14C-tracable bio-based…
As part of the National Aviation Conference, Sasol Ltd. (Johannesburg, South Africa), DHL Group (Bonn, Germany) and HH2E (Hamburg, Germany) have signed an agreement for the setup of a joint initiative aimed at building potential production capacities for sustainable aviation…
Eramet Group (Paris) and Suez (France) have announced Dunkirk, France as the location for their future industrial complex for recycling lithium-ion electric vehicle (EV) batteries. This project will enable the strategic metals used in batteries to be recycled in a…
Mitsui & Co., Ltd. (Tokyo) has agreed to invest in a renewable diesel (hydrotreated vegetable oil/HVO) and sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) production business operated by Galp SGPS, S.A., Portugal's largest energy company. A joint venture company will be established once…
Técnicas Reunidas S.A. (TR; Madrid, Spain) and Allied Green Ammonia Pty. Ltd. have agreed to commence the first phases of a Green Hydrogen and Green Ammonia production facilities at Northern Territory, Australia. The Basic Engineering Design (BED) and Front-End Engineering…
Li-Cycle Holdings Corp. (Toronto, Ont., Canada), a leading global lithium-ion battery resource recovery company, and Glencore International AG, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Glencore plc (London), a leading producer, recycler, and marketer of nickel and cobalt which is required for the…
BASF SE (Lugwigshafen, Germany) is obtaining long-term access to QIRA bio-based 1,4-butanediol (BDO) from Qore LLC (Qore), a joint venture of Cargill and HELM AG. BASF and Qore have concluded an agreement to this effect. Qore will produce the bio-based…
TotalEnergies SE (Paris) has announced the building of a new mechanical recycling unit for plastic waste at its Grandpuits site southeast of Paris. This new investment follows those announced in June 2023 — the doubling of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF)…