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Cargill and HELM join forces to build commercial-scale plant for renewable BDO

Cargill, Inc. (Minneapolis, Minn.)  and chemical marketing company HELM (Hamburg, Germany) are entering into a joint venture, Qore, to help leading brands replace fossil-based chemistries with bio-based intermediates, enabling them to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. As part of the…

Brightmark to build $680-million advanced plastics-recycling plant in Georgia

Brightmark (San Francisco, Calif.) announced that it will build the world’s largest advanced plastics recycling and renewal facility in Macon-Bibb County, Georgia. The total investment is expected to be more than $680 million in a new plant intended to fully…

Alpek and Indorama acquire CarbonLite recycling plants in Pennsylvania and Texas

Alpek S.A.B. de C.V. (San Pedro Garza Garcia, Mexico) and Indorama Ventures Ltd. (IVL; Bangkok, Thailand)have each acquired plastics recycling facilities from CarbonLite Recycling LLC. Alpek has acquired CarbonLite’s Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) recycling and pelletization facility in Reading, Pennsylvania.The site…

Arkema to raise global production capabilities for 1233zd fluorospecialty product

Arkema (Colombes, France) announced the finalization of an agreement with Chinese producer Aofan to manufacture 1233zd in China. At the same time, Arkema will accelerate its detailed planning of additional capacity at its Calvert City, Kentucky site. Both projects will…

TechnipEnergies awarded pre-EPC contract from biochemicals manufacturer Circa Group

Sustainable biochemicals company Circa Group AS has engaged Technip Energies (Paris) to conduct pre-EPC phase engineering work as the next step in the execution stage of the ReSolute project. Circa Group converts waste, non-food biomass into advanced bio-based chemicals with its proprietary Furacell process.…

Sabic and Local Motors complete feasibility study for recycling 3D-printing scrap materials

With the desire to improve the circularity of large-format additive manufacturing (LFAM), SABIC (Jubail, Saudi Arabia) and Local Motors, a next-generation vehicle manufacturer, completed a joint study on the feasibility of recycling scrap thermoplastic parts and shavings from the 3D…

Lummus announces agreement with Energy Internet Corp. to co-develop sustainable energy-storage technologies for data centers

Lummus Technology (Houston) and Energy Internet Corp. (EIC) announced an agreement to collaborate in developing technology to store and generate electrical power for the data center market using compressed or liquefied air. This technology will provide long-duration energy storage, using…

Mitsubishi Power and Bakken Energy announce plans for clean-hydrogen hub in North Dakota

Bakken Energy, LLC (formerly Bakken Midstream Natural Gas, LLC) and Mitsubishi Power Americas, Inc. (Mitsubishi Power) have signed a strategic partnership agreement to create a world-class clean hydrogen hub in North Dakota. This hub will be composed of facilities that…

Ulsan, South Korea to host 270-MW hydrogen-turbine demonstration project

Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction (Changwon, South Korea) signed a memorandum of understanding with Ulsan Metropolitan City, Korea East-West Power and SK Gas on pursuing a hydrogen-gas turbine demonstration project. According to the MoU, Ulsan Metropolitan City will be providing…

Dow Benelux to build green-hydrogen plant, carbon-capture capabilities at Terneuzen complex

Dow Benelux outlined its roadmap to reduce current CO2 emissions from its Terneuzen, the Netherlands, operations by more than 40% by 2030 on its path to achieve net CO2 neutrality by 2050. The roadmap makes Terneuzen a flagship site and…