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thyssenkrupp opens Germany’s largest HPP center in Quakenbrück

As planned, Germany's largest center for high-pressure processing (HPP) of foodstuffs has started operations. The approximately 630-m2 facility is located in the Business and Innovation Park Quakenbrück (BIQ) in the direct vicinity of the DIL German Institute for Food Technology…

Hydrogen Forward coalition formed to advance hydrogen in the U.S.

A coalition of 11 companies have partnered to form Hydrogen Forward, an initiative focused on advancing hydrogen development in the United States. The founding members – Air Liquide, Anglo American plc, Bloom Energy, CF Industries, Chart Industries, Cummins Inc., Hyundai,…

Chandra Asri partners with Total Solar DG to install solar power its Cilegon Plant

PT Chandra Asri Petrochemical Tbk (Chandra Asri; Jakarta, Indonesia) continues its partnership with Total Solar DG to build the second solar panel or photovoltaic (PV) installation in the Cilegon plant in Indonesia. The rooftop PV installation will power Chandra Asri's…

Elkem and Vow join forces to build biocarbon plant near Oslo

Elkem (Oslo, Norway) has signed a Letter of Intent (LoI) with Vow ASA (Oslo, Norway)’s wholly owned subsidiary Vow Industries with the aim of reducing fossil CO2-emissions from the production of silicon and ferrosilicon products for the global market.  The…

Reliance Industries receives first delivery of carbon-neutral crude oil from Oxy Low Carbon Ventures

Oxy Low Carbon Ventures (OLCV), a division of Occidental announced the delivery of two million barrels of carbon-neutral oil to Reliance Industries in India. This transaction, which was arranged in conjunction with Macquarie Group’s Commodities and Global Markets group (Macquarie),…

ExxonMobil launches Low Carbon Solutions business unit

ExxonMobil has created a new business to commercialize its extensive low-carbon technology portfolio. The new business, ExxonMobil Low Carbon Solutions, will initially focus on carbon capture and storage, one of the critical technologies required to achieve net zero emissions and…

Solvay and Leonardo launch high-tech composites research lab

Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium) and technology company Leonardo announced the launch of a joint research lab dedicated to the development of novel composite materials and production processes critical for the future of the aerospace industry. This collaboration represents an important milestone in…

Clariant and Harbin Hulan Sino-Dan Jianye Bio-Energy sign license agreement for sunliquid cellulosic-ethanol technology in China

Clariant (Muttenz, Switzerland) has signed a license agreement with Harbin Hulan Sino-Dan Jianye Bio-Energy (www.zdjygroup.com) for Clariant'c sunliquid cellulosic-ethanol technology. Harbin Hulan Sino-Dan Jianye Bio-Energy, a subsidiary of the Sino-Dan Jianye Group was formed in the early 2010s and has…

International private-equity consortium to acquire DuPont Clean Technologies for $510 million

An international private-equity consortium consisting of BroadPeak Global LP, Asia Green Fund (AGF) and The Saudi Arabian Industrial Investments Company (Dussur) announced that they have signed a definitive agreement whereby the Group will purchase the Clean Technologies business of DuPont…

Hengyi Industries selects Univation’s technology for new polyethylene project in Brunei

Hengyi Industries Sdn. Bhd., has selected Univation Technologies’ (Houston) UNIPOL PE Process for its world-scale 600,000-ton/yr polyethylene (PE) plant to be located in Palau Muara Besar, Brunei. The new PE plant will be integrated into a larger refinery and petrochemicals…