Latest News: Sustainability
Nouryon and Renewcell partner on sustainable textile recycling
Nouryon (Amsterdam, the Netherlands) has signed an agreement with Renewcell to provide specialty chemicals and engineering solutions for its new textile recycling plant in Sundsvall, Sweden. The facility will recycle textile waste, including items such as worn-out jeans and production…
Total Cray Valley and Gevo to further scale up renewable isoamylene development
Total Cray Valley, part of the Polymers division of Total SE (Paris), and Gevo, Inc. (Englewood, Colo.) announced the successful completion of phase 1 of their Joint Development Agreement (JDA) to upgrade fusel oils (a mixture liquids produced during alcoholic…
Neste to raise production capacity of sustainable aviation fuel at Rotterdam refinery
Neste Corp. (Espoo, Finland) announced that it will modify its existing renewables production capacity in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, to enable production of Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF). Currently, the refinery produces mainly Neste MY Renewable Diesel. The modifications to the refinery,…
Phillips 66 completes refinery hydrotreater conversion for renewable diesel production
As a part of its first-quarter 2021 financial results, Phillips 66 (Houston) provided an update on its conversion project at the San Francisco Refinery in Rodeo, California, to meet the growing demand for renewable fuels. In April, the company completed…
SK Innovation and Kia Motors to establish recycling ecosystem for EV batteries
Kia Motors and SK Innovation (both Seoul, South Korea) announced that they had secured the possibility of building an industrial ecosystem that enables eco-friendly handling of EV batteries and technological basis thereof by re-collecting metals such as lithium from used…
Aker Solutions wins FEED contract for carbon-neutral fuels plant in Norway
Aker Solutions ASA (Lysaker, Norway) has signed a contract with Nordic Blue Crude (NBC) for front-end engineering and design (FEED) of a new e-Fuel facility at Herøya in Porsgrunn, Norway. The e-Fuel plant is planned to produce CO2-neutral fuel by…
Repsol joins Enerkem and Agbar to build a waste-to-chemicals plant in Tarragona
Repsol S.A. (Madrid, Spain) announced that it will join the Ecoplanta project, together with Enerkem (Montréal, Québec, Canada) and Grupo Agbar (Barcelona, Spain), to build a waste-to-chemicals plant in Tarragona, Spain. Under the joint venture Ecoplanta Molecular Recycling Solutions, the…
Johnson Matthey and Stena collaborate on battery-recycling value chain
Johnson Matthey plc (JM; London) has concluded a Memorandum of Understanding with Stena Recycling Group, a leading recycler of industrial waste and end of life products, to develop an efficient value chain in Europe for recycling of lithium ion batteries…
Ingevity partners with GreenGas on development of biogas-capture systems
Ingevity Corp. (North Charleston, S.C.) has announced a strategic partnership with and investment in GreenGasUSA Holdings, LLC (GreenGas), an integrated renewable natural gas (RNG) solutions provider helping customers reduce their environmental impact. Charleston, South Carolina-based GreenGas contracts with agricultural farms,…
McDermott wins FEED contract from Michelin for polystyrene-recycling project
McDermott International, Ltd. (Houston) announced that it has been awarded a Front End Engineering Design (FEED) contract from Michelin Group (Clermont-Ferrand, France) for the first industrialization of an innovative plastic recycling process to produce regenerated styrene from polystyrene. The regenerated…