Plastic Energy and TotalEnergies have announced a new agreement to promote the development of advanced plastic recycling. Under this agreement, Plastic Energy plans to build a second advanced recycling plant in Sevilla, Spain, in addition to their existing operational plant,…
Wastefront AS (Oslo, Norway) announced Technip Energies (Paris, France) as its engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) partner for the build of its £100 million tire-recycling plant in Sunderland. Technip Energies was selected following a competitive Project Analysis and Execution Pathway…
Ascend Performance Materials (Houston; www.ascendmaterials.com) signed an investment agreement to construct a new hexamethylene diamine (HMD) and specialty chemicals plant in Lianyungang, China in the Xuwei New Area Park. The new plant will be Ascend’s first chemical production facility and…
U.S. chemical manufacturers reported that persistent, and in some cases worsening, supply-chain problems had a detrimental impact on their operations. According to survey results released today by the American Chemistry Council (ACC; Washington, D.C.; www.americanchemistry.com), the impacts of supply chain…
Veolia has announced plans for its first electric-vehicle (EV) battery recycling facility in the U.K., which will have the capacity to process 20% of the U.K.’s end of life electric vehicle batteries by 2024. Many of the materials required for…
ExxonMobil Corp. (Irving, Tex.) is expanding its interests in biofuels that can help reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the transportation sector, acquiring a 49.9% stake in Biojet AS, a Norwegian biofuels company that plans to convert forestry and wood-based construction…
Danish biotech company Biosyntia and Wacker Chemie AG (Munich, Germany) announced the signing of a contract to develop a large-scale production process for fermentation-based biotin. The long-term partnership aims to make fermentation-based biotin available for the full range of relevant…
SUEZ - Water Technologies & Solutions has been awarded a contract to design and build water treatment, wastewater recycle, and waste recovery systems for VinyThai Public Company Limited, a major market leader in manufacturing plastic and chemical products in Thailand.…
Nouryon (Amsterdam, the Netherlands) has signed a 15-year agreement with Suzano, a world leading eucalyptus pulp producer. Under the long-term agreement, Nouryon will commission its sustainable Integrated Manufacturing Model for the new Suzano eucalyptus pulp mill in the municipality of…
Technip Energies (Paris) and Sibur (Moscow, Russia) announced that the companies have signed a collaboration agreement to license a dedicated technology for the production of hexene-1 from ethylene. Hexene-1 is a comonomer of choice in the production of high-value specialty resins.…