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Shell to start work on Europe’s largest renewable hydrogen plant

Shell Nederland B.V. and Shell Overseas Investments B.V., subsidiaries of Shell plc, have taken the final investment decision to build Holland Hydrogen I, which will be Europe’s largest renewable hydrogen plant once operational in 2025. The 200MW electrolyzer will be…

Versalis and Forever Plast to construct plastics recycling facility at Porto Marghera

Versalis S.p.A. (San Donato Milanese), Eni's chemical company, and Forever Plast, an Italian company and European leader in the recycling of post-consumer plastics, have signed a new agreement as part of a project aimed at transforming the Porto Marghera industrial…

Ineos announces government funding for green-H2 feasibility study in Köln

Ineos (London) has announced that the state government of North Rhine-Westphalia has confirmed €770,000 funding to support a feasibility study for the construction of a 100-megawatt water electrolysis plant for the production of green hydrogen at the INEOS site in…

DOMO Chemicals and Hynamics collaborating on zero-carbon hydrogen project in France

DOMO Chemicals (Leuna, Germany) and Hynamics, a 100% subsidiary of EDF Group specializing in the production of low-carbon hydrogen, have entered into a partnership project with the objective of achieving zero-carbon for 100% of the hydrogen used at the Belle-Étoile…

Trinseo and GMP Group announce plans for polystyrene recycling plant in the Netherlands

Trinseo (Berwyn, Pa.) and GMP Group (GMP), a circular business innovations company in the Netherlands, announced jointly their intended concerted efforts in further unlocking the circularity of polystyrene (PS). Trinseo and GMP’s collaboration aims at providing a framework for cooperation,…

Sumitomo Chemical announces “turquoise” hydrogen joint research project

Sumitomo Chemical Co. (Tokyo, Japan) and the National Institute of Technology Asahikawa College announced that they will accelerate joint research on a catalyst and a process for low environmental impact commercial production of turquoise hydrogen, along with joint research into…

BASF and MAN Energy Solutions enter into partnership for construction of one of the world’s largest heat pumps in Ludwigshafen

BASF SE (Ludwigshafen) and MAN Energy Solutions SE (Augsburg, both Germany) have entered into a strategic partnership to pursue the construction of an industrial-scale heat pump at the BASF site in Ludwigshafen. This project is intended to make an important…

Neste makes €1.9-billion investment for expansion of renewable-products refinery in Rotterdam

Neste Corp. (Espoo, Finland) has made the final investment decision to invest into new renewable products production capacity in Rotterdam. The decision is based on demand for renewable products growing substantially with customers' higher climate ambitions. Neste’s current 1.4 million…

Showa Denko begins development of microwave-based chemical-recycling technology for plastics

Showa Denko K.K. (SDK; Tokyo) and Microwave Chemical Co., Ltd. (Osaka) have started joint development of a new microwave-based chemical recycling technology to directly transform used plastic into basic chemical feedstock. The two companies are implementing various steps to achieve…

Vattenfall and Preem enter feasibility phase for green-hydrogen network connecting to refineries on Sweden’s west coast

After the initial announcement of their hydrogen partnership, Vattenfall AB and Preem AB (both Stockholm, Sweden) will now enter into a feasibility phase to assess the possibility of accelerating the development of a value chain connecting offshore wind and hydrogen…