ExxonMobil Corp. (Irving, Tex.) has completed the initial phase of a plant trial of a proprietary advanced recycling process for converting plastic waste into raw materials for production of high-value polymers. The trial, at the company’s existing facilities in Baytown,…
HCS Group (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) has signed a project memorandum of understanding (MOU) to develop and build a renewable hydrocarbon facility at HCS Group’s site located in Speyer, Germany, utilizing Gevo’s low-carbon alcohol to jet (ATJ) technology. The signed…
TreeToTextile, owned by H&M Group, Inter IKEA Group, Stora Enso, and LSCS Invest, announced that it is investing €35 million in constructing a demonstration plant in Sweden for upscaling new sustainable textile fiber. It is a critical next step towards…
OMV Petrom SA (Bucharest, Romania) has invested €1.5 million at the Petrobrazi refinery to streamline the lighting system of ten industrial ramps, where crude oil and feedstock is unloaded and oil products are loaded. The old lighting system at the…
Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP), a Danish fund management company focused on renewable energy infrastructure, has unveiled plans for the establishment of Europe’s largest production facility of CO2-free green ammonia. The project will be located in the town of Esbjerg on…
Braskem S.A. (Philadelphia, Pa.) is expanding its production capacity of green ethylene, the main feedstock derived from sugarcane ethanol, which is used in the production of renewable resins. These materials can therefore claim to capture CO2, a greenhouse gas. This…
Röhm GmbH (Darmstadt Germany), OQ (Oman) and OQ Chemicals have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to evaluate the construction of a new production plant for methyl methacrylate (MMA) on OQ’s site in Bay City, Texas. In this plant, a…
DuPont Clean Technologies announced that it has signed a contract with ISAB S.r.l. (ISAB, wholly owned by LUKOIL) to revamp the refinery’s existing trickle-bed diesel hydrotreater at the Priolo Refinery in Siracusa, Italy with the IsoTherming Hydroprocessing Technology. ISAB commissioned DuPont…
Borealis Group AG (Vienna, Austria) announced that it is investing EUR 17.6 million in a new Regenerative Thermal Oxidizer (RTO) for its polyolefins plants in Porvoo, Finland. This equipment will significantly lower the site’s CO2 emissions, reduce flaring and save…
Arkema S.A. (Colombes, France) announced that it will invest to further increase its fluoropolymer production capacities in Changshu, China by 35% in 2022. Simultaneously, the company celebrates the first ten years of successful PVDF production at the Changshu site. The…