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Smarter Chemical Recovery in Pulping Facilities

Evaporation and crystallization technologies have the ability to create advantages for pulping facilities by improving operational efficiency and reducing waste, while simultaneously producing high-value product streams The emergence of new products and markets is driving a global renaissance of the…

Chevron to acquire Renewable Energy Group for $3.15 billion

Chevron Corp. (San Ramon, Calif.) and Renewable Energy Group, Inc. (REG; Ames, Iowa) announced a definitive agreement under which Chevron will acquire the outstanding shares of REG in an all-cash transaction valued at $3.15 billion, or $61.50 per share. The…

DuPont Sustainable Solutions rebrands as dss+

DuPont Sustainable Solutions, a global operations consulting firm, announced it will operate under a new name: dss+ (pronounced ‘dss plus’). Since DuPont Sustainable Solutions became an independent consulting firm after separating from DuPont in 2019, it has evolved and enhanced its…

BP selects Honeywell technology for SAF project in Western Australia

Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.) announced that bp plc (London) and Honeywell have signed a licensing agreement for Honeywell UOP’s Ecofining technology. bp is undergoing pre-feed engineering for its proposed diesel and sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) project in Western Australia.…

Axens and Univation enter cooperation agreement focused on LAO production

Axens (Rueil-Malmaison, France) and Univation Technologies, LLC (Houston) have entered into a cooperation agreement with the purpose of developing improved capital and operating efficiencies for the production of on-purpose linear alpha olefins (LAO) – including both butene-1 and hexene-1 -for…

U.S. chemical production expanded in January, ACC says

The U.S. Chemical Production Regional Index (U.S. CPRI) expanded by 0.4% in January following a 1.4% gain in December and a 0.3% gain in November, according to data from the American Chemistry Council (ACC; Washington, D.C.; www.americanchemistry.com). Chemical output rose…

Chevron announces investment in Carbon Clean CO2-capture technology business

Chevron U.S.A. Inc., a subsidiary of Chevron Corp. (San Ramon, Calif.), announced it has made a new investment in Carbon Clean (London), a global leader in cost-effective industrial carbon capture. The size and cost of installing carbon capture technology has…

ExxonMobil to expand carbon-capture capabilities at Wyoming gas-processing site

ExxonMobil Corp. (Houston) has made a final investment decision to expand carbon capture and storage at its LaBarge, Wyoming, facility, which has captured more CO2 than any other facility in the world to date. The expansion project will capture up…

Northvolt to convert acquired Stora Enso paper plant into battery-manufacturing site

Stora Enso Oyj (Helsinki, Finland) announced that it has signed a letter of intent to divest the Kvarnsveden site in Sweden to Northvolt AB (Stockholm, Sweden). Due to structural decline in demand for graphical paper, in April 2021 Stora Enso…

New report details progress of U.K.’s first low-carbon H2 plant

Vertex Hydrogen, the joint venture between Essar Oil UK and Progressive Energy, has unveiled a report detailing the development of the U.K.’s first large-scale low-carbon hydrogen production plant. The report can be accessed here. The report has been launched by…