Casale SA (Lugano, Switzerland) was awarded a new contract by a major European producer for a new hydrolyzer unit meant to treat the waters coming from two melamine plants. The hydrolyzer will be designed to comply with new legislation, which…
ExxonMobil Corp. (Irving, Tex.) announced that its majority-owned affiliate, Imperial Oil Ltd., is moving forward with plans to produce renewable diesel at a new complex at its Strathcona refinery in Edmonton, Canada. When construction is complete, the refinery is expected…
Velocys plc (Harwell, U.K.) is pleased to announce its Fischer Tropsch (FT) technology has been selected for an e-fuels project by Toyo Engineering Corp. (Toyo; Tokyo) and its consortium of six leading Japanese companies. E-fuels are a promising set of…
Johnson Matthey plc (London, U.K.) has entered into an agreement with OnTo Technology, a developer of advanced battery recycling solutions, to scale up OnTo’s patented process for the direct recycling of lithium-ion battery scrap. The partners will collaborate with the…
Brightmark LLC (San Francisco, Calif.) and Chevron U.S.A. Inc. (San Ramon, Calif.) announced the second expansion of their previously announced joint venture, Brightmark RNG Holdings LLC, to own projects across the United States to produce and market dairy biomethane, a…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) announced that BASF Polska has signed a two-year contract with PGE Obrót S.A. to purchase electricity produced entirely from renewable energy sources - mainly wind - to power its Mobile Emissions Catalysts plant in Środa Śląska,…
Rio Tinto plc (London, U.K.) and Sumitomo Chemical Co. (Tokyo, Japan) announced a partnership to study the construction of a hydrogen pilot plant at Rio Tinto’s Yarwun alumina refinery in Gladstone, Australia, and explore the potential use of hydrogen at…
Marathon Petroleum Corp. (MPC; Findlay, Ohio) and Archer-Daniels-Midland Co. (ADM; Chicago) announced an agreement to form a joint venture (JV) for the production of soybean oil to supply rapidly growing demand for renewable diesel fuel. Under the terms of the…
NuMat Technologies (Chicago, Ill.) announced a partnership with Sumitomo Chemical Co. (Tokyo, Japan) to develop sustainable chemical separation technologies that can efficiently and dramatically reduce the carbon emissions and carbon footprint required to produce critical chemicals used in key sectors of the…
Agilyx Corp. (Tigard, Ore.), a wholly owned subsidiary of Agilyx AS and Kumho Petrochemical (Seoul, South Korea), a global leader in the manufacture of synthetic rubber, have announced a collaboration to explore the development and construction of a chemical recycling…