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Borealis and Bionerga commission waste-to-energy plant in Belgium

Borealis Group AG (Vienna, Austria) and Bionerga announced the joint commissioning of Biostoom, a new waste-to-energy plant constructed and operated by Bionerga in Beringen, Belgium. The long-term agreement between Borealis and Bionerga, a Belgium-based specialist in recovering energy from waste,…

Axens’ technology selected by Sumitomo Chemical for a waste-to-polyolefins project

Sumitomo Chemical Co. (Tokyo, Japan) and Axens (Rueil-Malmaison, France) signed a license agreement of ethanol-to-ethylene technology Atol for Sumitomo Chemical’s waste-to-polyolefins project in Japan. In the project Axens’ Atol technology will transform ethanol produced from waste into polymer-grade ethylene that…

Haldor Topsoe technologies selected for Grön Fuels’ new renewable-diesel plant

Grön Fuels, LLC has selected Haldor Topsoe’s (Lyngby, Denmark) HydroFlex renewable fuels and H2bridge bio-hydrogen technologies with bio-carbon capture and sequestration option for a multi-billion low-carbon-intensity complex in Louisiana. The new facility, located at the Port of Greater Baton Rouge,…

Air Liquide supports the development of a liquid hydrogen plant in South Korea

Air Liquide Engineering & Construction has signed an agreement with Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction (Seoul, South Korea) to support the construction of a liquid hydrogen plant in Changwon, South Korea as an enabler of clean transport development in the…

LG Chem to run Wuxi cathode-materials plant on 100% renewable power

LG Chem Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea) announced the conclusion of an agreement for the supply of 140 GWh of renewable energy for its cathode-materials factory (Leyou New Energy Materials) in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province, China from the local wind and solar…

Trinseo to acquire Arkema’s PMMA business

Trinseo (Berwyn,. Pa.) announced its entry into a binding agreement with Arkema S.A. (“Arkema”) to acquire Arkema’s polymethyl methacrylates (PMMA) and activated methyl methacrylates (MMA) businesses (together, referred to herein as the PMMA business). PMMA is a transparent and rigid…

GE Renewable Energy and Veolia partner to recycle decommissioned wind-turbine blades

GE Renewable Energy announced that it has signed a multi-year agreement with Veolia North America (VNA) to recycle blades removed from its U.S.-based onshore turbines during upgrades and repowering efforts. Through this agreement, GE plans to recycle the majority of…

Eni and Saipem join forces for decarbonization projects in Italy

Eni S.p.A. (Rome, Italy) and Saipem S.p.A. (San Donato Milanese, Italy) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to cooperate on the identification and engineering of decarbonization initiatives and projects in Italy. San Donato Milanese, 9 December – Eni's CEO, Claudio…

Lummus, CLG receive multiple technology contracts from Pertamina-Rosneft JV

Lummus Technology (Houston) and Chevron Lummus Global (CLG) announced multiple technology contracts with PT Pertamina Rosneft Pengolahan dan Petrokimia (PRPP), a joint venture (JV) between Indonesia's PT Pertamina (Persero) and Russia's Rosneft Oil Company for a grassroots refinery and petrochemical…

Mitsubishi Chemical acquires land in Louisiana for new MMA plant

Mitsubishi Chemical Corp. (MCC; Tokyo) recently acquired “greenfield” property at a large integrated site on the Mississippi River in Geismar, Louisiana and plans to advance its feasibility study for the design and construction of a 350,000 metric ton Methyl Methacrylate…