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Mitsubishi and Shell sign MOU for blue hydrogen project in Canada

Mitsubishi Corp. (MC) and Shell Canada Products, by its managing partner, Shell Canada Limited (Shell Canada) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding relating to the production of low-carbon hydrogen through the use of carbon capture and storage (CCS) near Edmonton,…

Gevo to build renewable-fuels pilot plant in Minnesota

Gevo, Inc. (Englewood, Colo.) announced that it plans to install an alcohol-to-hydrocarbon process pilot unit at its facility located in Luverne, Minnesota. The pilot unit is being designed to produce market development quantities of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), renewable premium…

Neste strengthens renewable-feedstock sourcing with acquisition of Agri Trading

Neste Corp. (Espoo, Finland) has agreed to acquire 100% of Agri Trading, one of the largest independent renewable waste and residue fat and oil traders in the United States, and its affiliate entities. The transaction is subject to the completion…

Evonik’s Coating Additives business announces capacity expansion in Shanghai

Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany) announced that its Coating Additives business line has taken another step to improve the supply situation by increasing the production capacity of several critical additives. For the first time these additives are being produced in…

Linde signs gas-supply contract with semiconductor manufacturing plant in Phoenix

Linde plc (Guildford, U.K.) announced that it has signed a long-term agreement with one of the world's largest semiconductor manufacturers for the supply of industrial gases to a new multi-billion dollar manufacturing facility in Phoenix, Arizona. Linde will build, own…

Repsol selects Univation’s PE process technology for new PE plant in Portugal

Repsol S.A. (Madrid, Spain) has selected Univation Technologies’ (Houston) UNIPOL PE Process for its 300,000-ton/yr polyethylene (PE) plant. This new PE plant will be constructed along with another polymer production unit with both plants located at Repsol’s Industrial Complex in…

DuPont, Veolia awarded contracts for ioneer’s litihum-boron project in Nevada

ioneer Ltd. (North Sydney, Australia), an emerging lithium-boron supplier, is pleased to announce it has awarded DuPont Clean Technologies (DuPont) a contract for the license, engineering, and supply of proprietary equipment for the planned sulfuric acid plant (Plant) at the…

U.S. Vanadium launches $2.1-million VRFB electrolyte capacity expansion

US Vanadium, LLC (Hot Springs, Ark.) has announced a $2.1-million expansion of its production capacity for ultra-high-purity electrolyte used by grid-level vanadium flow batteries (VRFB).  The production expansion comes on the heels of a purchase agreement for 580,000 liters of…

Evonik to construct new plant for hollow-fiber membranes in Austria

Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany) is building a new hollow-fiber spinning plant for the production of gas-separation membranes at its Austrian site in Schörfling am Attersee. With the new capacity, Evonik aims to meet the strong demand for SEPURAN membranes…

Chevron and Bunge plan JV for renewable-feedstock production

Chevron U.S.A. Inc., a subsidiary of Chevron Corp. (San Ramon, Calif.), and Bunge North America, Inc., a subsidiary of Bunge Ltd. (St. Louis, Mo.), announced  a memorandum of understanding (MOU) of a proposed 50/50 joint venture to help meet the demand…