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Maire Tecnimont’s NextChem group awarded FEED contract for TotalEnergies’ new SAF plant

Maire Tecnimont S.p.A. (Milan, Italy) announced that its subsidiary NextChem has been awarded a contract by TotalEnergies to carry out a Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) and supply its technological know-how to implement a Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) plant in Grandpuits, France, capable of processing 400,000 metric tons per…

Technip Energies and Agilyx collaborate to scale up polystyrene recycling

Technip Energies (Paris) announced today the initiation of an agreement with Agilyx Corp. (Tigard, Ore.), a wholly owned subsidiary of Agilyx AS, and pioneer in the advanced recycling of post-use plastics. This collaboration aims to accelerate the implementation of Agilyx’s…

Chemours names new president and CEO

The Chemours Company (Wilmington, Del.) has announces a series of leadership transitions effective July 1, 2021. Mark Newman, the company’s current Chief Operating Officer, will become President and Chief Executive Officer of Chemours, succeeding Mark Vergnano, who has served as…

SK Inc. leads investment in Monolith Materials to accelerate U.S. green hydrogen expansion

SK Inc. (Seoul, South Korea) announced that it is the lead investor in the latest round of funding for Monolith Materials (Lincoln, Neb.), a U.S.-based leader in green hydrogen technologies. The investment will support expansion of Monolith’s green hydrogen production…

Sibur and Linde to launch CO2-recycling project

SIBUR-Neftekhim and Linde Gas Rus (both located in Dzerzhinsk, Russia) signed an agreement to launch a recycling project focusing on the carbon dioxide (CO2) generated as a by-product at SIBUR’s facility. The project is an integral part of SIBUR’s sustainable…

In Italy, Solvay will power four sites using green electricity

Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium) has signed a 10-year Corporate Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Falck Renewables S.p.A for the development of a solar project in the region of Puglia, Italy. The new solar plant project will have a capacity of…

Worley wins early engineering contract from Shell for 200-MW electrolysis project

Worley (North Sydney, Australia)  has been awarded an early engineering services contract by Shell (The Hague, the Netherlands) to support the development of a new 200-megawatt electrolysis-based hydrogen plant. Once complete, the project will be one of the largest commercial…

Avantium announces world’s first road test using lignin-based asphalt

Infrastructure company Roelofs has begun the construction of the world’s first test road made from bio-asphalt using lignin produced by Avantium N.V. (Amsterdam. The Netherlands). The fully plant-based lignin is used as a substitute for bitumen in asphalt, which is…

Perstorp to expand production capacity for 2-ethylhexanoic acid

Perstorp AB (Malmö, Sweden) will substantially expand its production capacity of 2-Ethylhexanoic Acid (2-EHA) beginning in 2022, to meet increasing market needs. The investment and expansion are within the framework of Perstorp’s existing production plants and implementation has already started.…

BASF concludes sale of production plant in Kankakee, Illinois

BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) concluded the sale of its manufacturing site in Kankakee, Illinois, to an affiliate of One Rock Capital Partners, LLC, a U.S.-based private equity firm. The agreement also includes the associated businesses of vegetable-oil-based raw material sterols…