LG Chem Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea) announced that it has successfully developed a new biodegradable material that could realize mechanical properties equivalent to synthetic resins for the first time in the world. The new material is said to exhibit significantly…
Frames Group B.V. (Alphen aan den Rijn, the Netherlands) has supplied a 25-kW hydrogen electrolyzer to Plug Power, a leading provider of clean hydrogen and zero-emission fuel cell solutions. Working in collaboration with Plug Power, the Frames Electrolyzer design has…
UPM Biochemicals, a group company of UPM Group (Helsinki Finland), together with Saxony-Anhalt's Prime Minister Dr. Reiner Haseloff, UPM Executive Vice President Technology Jyrki Ovaska and InfraLeuna Managing Director Dr. Christof Güntherden, celebrated the groundbreaking for the construction of a…
MOL Group (Budapest, Hungary; www.mol.hu) announced that it has completed a rubber bitumen plant at the Zala Site, representing an investment of around $10 million. The facility, built in one year, is capable of producing 20,000 metric tons per year…
Veolia (Paris) and Waga Energy S.A. (Meylan, France) have launched the construction of WagaBox, a unit recovering biomethane from landfill waste. WagaBox will be installed in Île-de-France at the Claye-Souilly landfill to supply renewable gas to 20,000 homes in the…
Gevo, Inc. (Englewood, Colo.) announced that it has signed a joint development agreement with TOTAL Cray Valley, part of the Polymers division of Total SE (Paris), to upgrade fusel oils (a mixture liquids produced during alcoholic fermentation) from ethanol production…
Equinor ASA (Stavanger, Norway) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Microsoft to explore ways to support the Northern Lights carbon capture and storage (CCS) project as a technology partner. Microsoft will explore using the project to enable the…
ArcelorMittal Europe S.A. (Luxembourg) announced details of its CO2 technology strategy, which will enable it to offer its first green steel solutions to customers this year (30,000 tons), scale up this offering in coming years (to reach 120,000 tons in…
Long Ridge Energy Terminal, (Hannibal, Ohio) announced plans to transition its 485 MW combined-cycle power plant to run on carbon-free hydrogen. In collaboration with New Fortress Energy (NFE) and GE Power, Long Ridge intends to begin providing carbon-free power to…
Lummus Technology, LLC (Houston) and New Hope Technologies announced that the companies have entered into a cooperation agreement for the marketing and further development of a leading plastic-waste conversion technology based on thermal pyrolysis. The agreement is part of Green…