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OMV receives EU funding for large-scale chemical-recycling plant

OMV AG (Vienna, Austria) and the European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency (CINEA) have signed a grant agreement for OMV’s planned industrial ReOil plant, securing up to €81.6 million funding. This marks the first time that OMV receives a…

World’s largest SOEC to be delivered for hydrogen project at Italian steelmaking site

  Elcogen AS (Talinn, Estonia) announced the official launch of the Horizon Europe SYRIUS project following a successful kick-off meeting hosted by project partner, Acciai Speciali Terni Spa. The SYRIUS project aims to transform the steel industry by enabling hydrogen…

GEA is Rethinking Engineering, Reshaping Chemical Recycling

Recycling preserves resources, minimizes waste sent to landfills and decreases pollution from raw material processing. It plays a crucial role in energy conservation and mitigating climate change by lowering greenhouse gas emissions. Moreover, recycling helps preserve natural habitats and biodiversity…

Petrobras begins producing fuels with cellulosic content

Petrobras (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) and Riograndense Refinery (RPR) successfully completed an industrial scale co-processing test using 5% pyrolysis bio-oil (a non-food biomass raw material) combined with fossil feedstock. The refinery, located in Rio Grande, southern Brazil, has Petrobras, Ultra…

RWE and TotalEnergies agree to long-term offtake agreement for green hydrogen

TotalEnergies SE (Paris) and RWE AG (Essen, Germany) have for the first time agreed on conditions for the purchase of green hydrogen over a period of 15 years. The agreement stipulates that TotalEnergies will purchase around 30,000 metric tons of…

ABB signs agreement with Dow as the automation partner to support Path2Zero ethylene complex in Canada

ABB, Inc. (Zurich, Switzerland) has signed a Leveraged Procurement Agreement (LPA) to support as the automation partner for Dow’s Path2Zero project at Fort Saskatchewan in Alberta, Canada. According to Dow, the project, which is currently under construction, will create the…

Heidelberg Materials moves closer to deploying industrial CCUS project at Edmonton cement plant

Heidelberg Materials North America announced that the Government of Canada’s Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) department has committed to finalizing negotiations on a Contribution Agreement for the groundbreaking carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) project at the company’s…

Utility Global demonstrates hydrogen production using steel manufacturing off-gases

Utility Global, Inc. (Houston) announced the successful operation of the company’s H2Gen system at a major steel plant in North America. Utility’s H2Gen system successfully produced the world’s first hydrogen using steel plant off-gas (blast furnace gas) in a single…

BASF to source recycled feedstock from Braven Environmental in Texas

BASF Corp. and Braven Environmental LLC (Tarrytown, N.Y.) have signed a supply agreement for Braven PyChem. This advanced recycled feedstock, derived from mixed plastic waste, will partially replace fossil resources at the BASF TotalEnergies Petrochemical (BTP) facility in Port Arthur,…

Saint-Gobain Ceramics to construct catalyst carriers manufacturing plant in New York

Saint-Gobain Ceramics, through its subsidiary Saint-Gobain NorPro, announced its intent to build a new manufacturing facility in Wheatfield, New York. The facility will revitalize an historic industrial property as the company expands its production of catalyst carriers to serve a…