Indorama Ventures Ltd. (IVL; Bangkok, Thailand) announced it will build a facility in Karawang, West Java, Indonesia to recycle almost 2 billion plastic bottles a year in support of the government’s plan to reduce ocean debris. The facility, which is…
Maire Tecnimont S.p.A. (Milan, Italy) announces that a consortium composed of its subsidiaries Tecnimont S.p.A. and Mumbai-based Tecnimont Pvt Ltd. has been awarded an EPCC (Engineering, Procurement, Construction and Commissioning) Lump-Sum contract by IndianOil Corp. Ltd. (IOCL; New Delhi) for…
As part of their partnership to enable the circular economy of EV battery metals in Europe through closed-loop recycling, Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium) and Veolia (Paris, France) have entered a Joint Operation Agreement to begin their collaboration in a demonstration…
Dow, Inc. (Midland, Mich.) announced a series of incremental, high-return capacity expansions to support growing demand across key end-markets, all of which value sustainable solutions and continue to grow faster than GDP. In Dow’s Consumer Solutions business, several key growth…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) has expanded its chemical catalyst recycling capacity and capability with the acquisition of Zodiac Enterprises LLC in Caldwell, Texas. The site recycles precious metals from industrial scrap, primarily chemical catalysts, and will complement BASF’s existing precious…
Metso Outotec Corp. (Helsinki, Finland) has been awarded a contract for the engineering and delivery of a bauxite grinding package to National Aluminium Company’s (NALCO) Damanjodi Alumina Refinery for their 5th stream expansion project in Odisha, India. Typically, the value of this…
Repsol S.A. (Madrid, Spain) will begin marketing ARiA, its proprietary, cloud-based data and analytics platform, in collaboration with Accenture (Dublin, Ireland). Originally conceived for internal use by Repsol, the platform will now assist other companies in accelerating the use of…
Eni UK and Uniper SE (Düsseldorf, Germany) have announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to jointly evaluate decarbonization initiatives in North Wales. The collaboration, in line with the UK government's ten point plan for green industrial revolution,…
Clean Harbors, Inc. (Norwell, Ma.) announced the signing of a definitive agreement with Vertex Energy, Inc. (Houston) to acquire certain assets related to Vertex’s used motor oil collection and re-refinery business in an all-cash transaction for $140 million, subject to…
Maire Tecnimont S.p.A. (Milan, Italy) announced that its subsidiaries NextChem and MET Development have reached an agreement with FerSam Uruguay S.A. (FerSam), part of FerSam Group, to develop projects for the production of green ammonia and bio-ethanol in Latin America. Under the…