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NextChem inaugurates new plastics upcycling plant in Italy

NextChem (Maire; Milan, Italy; www.nextchem.com) inaugurated its new premises at MyReplast 30,000 square-meter upcycling plant in Bedizzole, Brescia, during a ceremony attended by local authorities and company top management. The new building includes meeting rooms and new offices, as well…

Mantel scales up molten-borate carbon capture with commercial-scale FEED study

Mantel Capture, a leading provider of energy-efficient and cost-effective carbon capture, announced initiation of a front-end engineering design (FEED) study for a commercial-scale project with a Canadian oil and gas producer. The initiative is supported by Alberta Innovates and will…

Lummus Technology and Advanced Ionics break ground on novel electrolyzer pilot plant

Lummus Technology (Houston) and Advanced Ionics (Milwaukee, Wis.), a low-cost green hydrogen technology provider, broke ground recently on a pilot plant for Advanced Ionics' cutting-edge electrolyzer technology. "By demonstrating Advanced Ionics' technology at our state-of-the-art R&D facility, we are leveraging…

Gasification pilot project will demonstrate the recycling of absorbent hygiene products

BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) and Essity AB (Stockholm, Sweden), a global leading hygiene and health company, joined forces with the Technical University of Wien to revolutionize recycling of absorbent hygiene products (AHP). The groundbreaking gasification pilot project proves that used…

Bio-based butadiene progresses toward commercialization

Axens (Rueil-Malmaison, France), IFP Energies Nouvellas (IFPEN; Rueil-Malmaison, France) and Michelin (Clermont-Ferrand, France) have announced significant advancements in the BioButterfly™ project, supported by ADEME, Région Nouvelle Aquitaine and Bordeaux Metropole, which aims to produce bio-based butadiene from bioethanol. Following the startup…

MHI produces hydrogen at its ammonia cracking pilot plant using steam heating

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI)), as part of its effort to develop an innovative ammonia cracking system, has succeeded in producing 99% pure hydrogen by cracking ammonia using steam as the heating source. The production of hydrogen at pilot scale…

Topsoe awarded FEED contract to supply solid-oxide electrolyzers for Carbon Neutral Fuels’ e-SAF project in the U.K.

Topsoe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark) has signed a Front-End Engineering and Design (FEED) agreement with Carbon Neutral Fuels (CNF) based on Topsoe’s state-of-the-art SOEC electrolyzers for CNF’s commercial-scale e-SAF project called Project Starling. Located in Workington, U..K, the Starling project is…

Covestro and Allmed jointly studying medical-device recycling

 Covestro AG (Leverkusen, Germany) and Allmed, an international blood purification specialist, announced a partnership to jointly investigate the recycling of used artificial kidney filters. The study will explore the potential to recover polycarbonate from medical devices for use in new…

World-first pilot plant in Catalonia will 3D print ceramic parts for solid-oxide cells

The Catalonia Institute for Energy Research (IREC; Tarragona, Spain) has launched a new pilot line for the manufacturing of ceramic devices using 3D printing for the generation and use of renewable hydrogen via solid-oxide electrolysis. This manufacturing process for complete…

Honeywell selected to automate two flagship carbon-capture projects in the U.K.

Honeywell International, Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.) announced it has been selected by Technip Energies (Paris) to provide integrated automation and safety technologies to the Net Zero Teesside Power (NZT Power) and Northern Endurance Partnership (NEP) projects, which represent two of the…