Danimer Scientific, Inc. (Bainbridge, Ga.), a leading next generation bioplastics company focused on the development and production of biodegradable materials, today announced it is collaborating with Chevron Phillips Chemical (CPChem; The Woodlands, Tex.) to explore a loop slurry reactor design…
HeidelbergCement has announced plans to pilot a carbon capture project in Eastern Europe. Project ACCSESS, a consortium led by Sintef Energi AS, Norway, aims to significantly cut the costs of the CCUS value chain, and to link CO2-emitters from mainland…
Lummus Technology (Houston) announced it has been awarded a technology contract by Zhangzhou CHIMEI Chemical Co., a subsidiary of CHIMEI Corp. of Taiwan, for a grassroots diphenyl carbonate (DPC) plant in Fujian Province, China. Zhangzhou CHIMEI will build a new…
The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory (Argonne, Ill.) recently partnered with Gevo, Inc. (Englewood, Colo.) to perform a critical lifecycle analysis of Gevo's next-generation technology. Using data provided by Gevo, Argonne’s Greenhouse gases, Regulated Emissions, and Energy use in Technologies (GREET)…
Repsol S.A. (Madrid, Spain) announced that it will start up the first electrolyzer in the northern Spanish region of the Basque Country in the second half of 2022, to produce renewable hydrogen at its Petronor refinery. The facility will have…
Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany has opened a second production line for silica-based effect pigments in Gernsheim, Germany. Around 750 employees work at this site, which is home Merck’s largest pigment production facility worldwide. With this investment, Merck will significantly increase…
Eni S.p.A. (Rome, Italy) and Chevron Lummus Global LLC, (CLG) announced the execution of a Joint Cooperation and Licensing Agreement for a complete suite of residue hydrocracking solutions. This will include Eni's EST (Eni Slurry Technology) and LC-FINING, LC-MAX, LC-SLURRY…
Huntsman Corp. (The Woodlands, Tex.) announced that its Performance Products division has completed the initial phases of a project to expand and widen its portfolio of E-GRADE specialty amines, including quaternary amine alternatives to tetramethylammonium hydroxide (TMAH) and related products…
Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC), bp plc and Masdar announced the signing of strategic framework agreements to expand upon the U.A.E. and U.K.’s longstanding track record of bilateral partnership in sustainability, including the potential development of clean hydrogen hubs…
Plug Power (Latham, N.Y.) is expanding its green hydrogen ecosystem to the U.S. west coast with the construction of a new state-of-the-art production facility in Fresno County, California. Green hydrogen is produced through the electrolysis of water with electricity generated…