Seaboard Energy has chosen Haldor Topsoe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark) HydroFlex renewable fuel technology to produce clean renewable diesel from tallow and soybean oil. The 6,500 barrels-per-day renewable diesel unit is currently under construction at Seaboard Energy’s site in Hugoton, Kansas,…
Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction (Changwon, South Korea) has embarked on the development of technology for producing hydrogen using waste plastic and vinyl. To this end, the company announced on that it had signed a business partnership MOU with RevoTech,…
PPG (Pittsburgh, Pa.) announced the completion of a $13 million investment (approximately RMB 84 million) in its Jiading, China paint and coatings facility, including eight new powder coating production lines and an expanded Powder Coatings Technology Center that will further…
The ORLEN Unipetrol Group (Prague, Czech Republic) has commissioned a pyrolytic testing unit for waste-plastics processing at its chemical plant in Litvínov. It will explore the possibilities of chemical plastic recycling and its potential implementation in standard production in the…
Eastman Chemical Co. (Kingsport, Tenn.) is collaborating with SAP to pilot the GreenToken by SAP technology to enable traceability of certified recycled content across the value chain using blockchain technology. The Eastman and SAP collaboration will leverage the blockchain-based platform…
Liquid Wind (Gothenburg, Sweden) has announced that Worley (North Sydney, Australia) will provide front-end engineering design (FEED) services for the eMethanol facility which will be constructed in Örnsköldsvik, on the north-east coast of Sweden. They will support the Liquid Wind Consortium to…
Eramet Group (Paris, France), in partnership with Électricité de Strasbourg (ÉS), has succeeded in extracting lithium from geothermal brine during pilot-scale tests conducted early 2021 at the Rittershoffen geothermal power plant (northern Alsace, France), which has been operated by ÉS…
Everfuel A/S (Herning, Denmark) has announced plans for the HySynergy Phase II project, including development of a 300-MW electrolyzer and Power-to-X (PtX) facility adjacent to the Fredericia petroleum refinery located in Fredericia, Denmark . The HySynergy Phase II project involves…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) announced the expansion of its Seneca, South Carolina, Platinum Group Metals (PGM) refining facility. The company will invest double-digit millions in capital improvements to increase refining capacity to recycle precious metals from spent catalysts such as…
Nouryon (Amsterdam, the Netherlands) has begun the engineering phase at its Expancel expandable microspheres plant in Wisconsin, moving one step closer to better serving its specialty additives customers in North America. Construction on the plant is expected to begin at…