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PPG in collaboration with Cellforce Group to develop sustainable battery cells

PPG (Pittsburgh, Pa.) announced that it has partnered with Cellforce Group, which is a joint venture between Porsche and CUSTOMCELLS, to develop exclusive sustainable battery-cell solutions to better serve the electric vehicle and mobility segment. PPG will supply cathode binder…

Arkema to increase elastomer production capacity in Serquigny, France

Arkema S.A. (Colombes, France) announced a 25% increase in its global Pebax elastomer production capacity by investing in the Serquigny site in France. This investment will notably enable increased production of the bio-circular Pebax Rnew and traditional Pebax ranges. This…

BASF to expand European production for hexamethylenediamine and polyamide 6,6

  BASF SE (Ludwigshafgen, Germany) decided to build a new hexamethylene diamine (HMD) plant in Chalampé, France. The new plant is set to increase BASF’s HMD production capacity to 260,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr). Production is expected to start…

Woodside and KBR to launch FEED work for green hydrogen project in Oklahoma

KBR, Inc. (Houston) announced that it has been awarded an engineering services contract by Woodside Energy (USA) Inc. for its proposed H2OK liquid hydrogen production facility project in Ardmore, Oklahoma.  Under the terms of the contract, KBR will provide a…

PT Polytama Propindo selects LyondellBasell technology for new polypropylene plant in West Java

LyondellBasell (Rotterdam, the Netherlands) announced that PT Polytama Propindo will use the LyondellBasell Spheripol technology for expanding their existing facility. The process technology will be used for an additional 300,000-ton/yr polypropylene plant to be built in Balongan, West Java, Indonesia,…

LG Chem to construct South Korea’s first supercritical pyrolysis plant for plastics recycling

LG Chem Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea) says that it will construct South Korea’s first and its own hydrothermal plastics recycle facility using supercritical water. Supercritical water refers to a chemical recycling technology that converts mixed plastic streams into fossil-replacement oils…

Fortescue and Covestro enter a longterm green-hydrogen supply agreement

Australian renewable-energy firm Fortescue Future Industries (FFI) and Covestro AG (Leverkusen, Germany) intend to enter into a long-term agreement for the supply of green hydrogen and its derivatives, including green ammonia. According to the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), FFI and…

Eastman announces plans to build world’s largest molecular plastics recycling facility in France

French President Emmanuel Macron and Eastman Chemical Co. (Kingsport, Tenn.) Board Chair and CEO Mark Costa will jointly announce Eastman's plan to invest up to $1 billion in a material-to-material molecular recycling facility in France. This facility would use Eastman's…

BP signs strategic framework agreement in Oman for green hydrogen production

bp plc (London) and the Ministry of Energy and Minerals in Oman signed a Strategic Framework Agreement (SFA) and a Renewables Data Collection Agreement which will support the potential development of a multiple gigawatt, world-class renewable energy and green hydrogen…

Haldor Topsoe’s technologies selected for Indaba Renewable Fuels’ biorefineries in California and Missouri

Haldor Topsoe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark) has announced that   Indaba Renewable Fuels (Indaba; Newport Beach, Calif.) will build two greenfield refineries in California and Missouri to produce Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) utilizing Topsoe’s HydroFlex technology. The facilities are expected to begin production of SAF in 2024…