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Plastic Energy and TotalEnergies announce startup of advanced recycling plant in France

Plastic Energy (London, U.K.; www.plasticenergy.com) and TotalEnergies (Courbevoie, France; www.totalenergies.com) announce the start-up of their joint advanced plastics recycling plant, TotalEnergies Plastic Energy Advanced Recycling (TEPEAR), at TotalEnergies’ zero-crude Grandpuits complex outside Paris. The facility, which has an annual processing…

Asahi Kasei and Nippon Steel recycle scrap from chlor-alkali electrolysis cell production

Asahi Kasei (Tokyo, Japan; www.asahi-kasei.com) a diversified global company, Nippon Steel (Tokyo, Japan; www.nipponsteel.com), and Nippon Steel Trading have launched a recycling initiative to convert pure titanium scrap generated during the manufacturing of electrolysis cells into a raw material for…

Neste commissions world’s largest upgrading facility for liquefied waste plastic

Neste Corp. (Espoo, Finland) has successfully commissioned its new upgrading facility for liquefied waste plastic (LWP) at its Porvoo refinery in Finland. This EUR 111 million investment marks a major milestone in the scale-up of chemical recycling, enabling the production…

Abundia and Topsoe enter partnership for waste-to-renewable fuels project

Abundia Global Impact Group, Inc. (Houston) announced that it has entered a multi-project licensing agreement with Topsoe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark) , a leading global provider of technology and solutions for the energy transition, to deploy its HydroFlex® technology for the upgrading…

Clariant completes pilot project on pyrolysis-oil upgrading with Borealis

Clariant AG (Munich, Germany; www.clariant.com), a sustainability-focused specialty chemical company, today announced the successful completion of a collaborative pilot-scale project with Borealis (Vienna, Austria; www.borealisgroup.com), a leading provider of advanced and circular polyolefin solutions, and SINTEF (Trondheim, Norway; www.sintef.no), one…

Emirates Biotech joins consortium to produce polylactic acid from food waste

Emirates Biotech (Dubai, United Arab Emirates; www.emiratesbiotech.com) has joined the CIRCLE consortium, a flagship initiative funded by the Circular Bio-based Europe Joint Undertaking (CBE JU; www.cbe.europa.eu) under the European Union’s Horizon Europe program. The four-year project has €27 million in…

RCM completes milestone ethanol-expansion project

RCM Thermal Kinetics, a division of RCM Technologies, has announced the successful completion of the first project under its NEXT (New Ethanol eXpansion Technology) engineering program, which was launched in early 2025. This inaugural project marks a historic milestone: a…

Axens signs Memorandum Of Understanding with Airbus on SAF development

Axens (Rueil-Malmaison, France)has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Airbus to strengthen their cooperation in the development and deployment of Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF), a key pillar for decarbonizing the aviation sector. Building on their respective leadership in renewable…

Covestro and Fraunhofer UMSICHT to develop pyrolysis-based recycling pilot plant

Covestro AG (Leverkusen, Germany) and the Fraunhofer Institute for Environmental, Safety and Energy Technology UMSICHT have signed a contract to operate a 2,000-ton per year pilot plant for smart pyrolysis of rigid polyurethane foam waste. The plant will be operational…

Equilibrion and Rolls-Royce SMR collaborating to advance the development of SAF production via nuclear energy

Equilibrion and Rolls-Royce SMR have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to collaborate on a technical and economic assessment, to better understand the opportunity for nuclear powered Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) using Small Modular Reactors (SMRs). The Rolls-Royce SMR is designed…