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Kemira to expand carbon reactivation capacity at Tarragona site

Kemira Oyj (Helsinki, Finland) plans to expand its Tarragona manufacturing site in Spain by building a plant to reactivate spent activated carbon for the drinking water business in Iberia. The new plant would add significant capacity to reactivate activated carbon…

UBE invests in U.K. CO2-capture startup Immaterial

UBE Corp. (Tokyo) has invested in Immaterial Ltd. (Cambridge, U.K.) in their top-up to the A2 round capital raise. Immaterial is an early-stage company aiming to commercialize CO₂ capture technologies utilizing densified monolithic Metal-Organic Frameworks (m-MOFs). A spin-out from the…

Reju announces industrial hub for textile recycling in France

Reju, the textile-to-textile regeneration company based in France, announced the site selection for an industrial sized Regeneration Hub, in Lacq, in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques, on the Induslacq platform. Reju, a Technip Energies owned company, is deepening its roots in France through…

BASF increases 1,4‑butanediol production in Ludwigshafen

BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) announced that its Intermediates division is taking decisive steps to further strengthen supply security for its European customers in the 1,4‑butanediol (BDO) value chain. By gradually increasing production output at its BDO plant in Ludwigshafen, Germany,…

Technip Energies awarded contract for SkyNRG SAF project in the Netherlands

Technip Energies (Paris) has been awarded a substantial contract by SkyNRG for the DSL-01 project, a new Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) production facility to be developed in Delfzijl, the Netherlands. The award covers Engineering, Procurement, Construction and Commissioning (EPCC) for…

Elkem announces agreement to sell majority of Silicones division

Elkem ASA (Oslo, Norway) announced an agreement to sell the majority of its Silicones division to Bluestar to be settled with all Elkem shares held by Bluestar through Bluestar Elkem International Co. Ltd. S.A. (collectively with its relevant affiliate(s), Bluestar).…

MHI demonstrates production of liquid synthetic fuels using integrated SOEC co-electrolysis

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) has conducted a demonstration of an integrated production process for synthesizing liquid fuels from carbon dioxide, water, and electricity, successfully producing liquid synthetic fuels through an integrated production system. The demonstration was conducted at MHI's…

Zeon invests in chemical-discovery startup Chemify

Zeon Corp. (Tokyo), through its venture capital arm Zeon Ventures Inc. (California), has strategically invested in and partnered with Chemify, Ltd., a U.K. growth-stage company and pioneer in digital chemistry for accelerating the design, discovery, and synthesis of novel molecules…

Aduro Clean Technologies initializes operations at Ontario pilot plant

Aduro Clean Technologies, Inc. (Sarnia, Ont., Canada) announced that initial operating campaigns are now underway at its Next Generation Process (NGP) Pilot Plant in London, Ontario.  Development of the First-of-a-Kind (FOAK) facility is progressing alongside Pilot Plant operations, with site…

Neste establishes a lubricants facility in Jönköping, Sweden

To respond to its customers’ needs in Sweden, Neste Corp. (Espoo, Finland) has opened its own lubricants warehouse in Jönköping to enable faster deliveries. “Neste has developed and provided customers with high-performing lubricants for decades. Having our own warehouse in…