BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) has successfully started the commercial operation of its Black Mass plant in Schwarzheide, Germany. This state-of-the-art facility represents a significant milestone for BASF’s battery recycling business. It is one of the biggest commercial Black Mass plants…
Sika AG (Baar, Switzerland) and Sulzer Ltd. (Winterthur, Switzerland) have signed a memorandum of understanding to establish a joint venture (JV) to advance plastics recycling in the construction industry. The aim is to combine the strengths of both companies: Sika's…
Saint-Gobain Glass has forged a new partnership with VEKA Recycling that represents a major advancement in sustainable construction and post-consumer glass recycling in the U.K. fenestration industry. Saint-Gobain has also been bolstering its glass-recycling capabilities in the U.S. with projects…
RIC Energy (Madrid, Spain) and Siemens AG (Munich, Germany) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to jointly develop innovative projects in the fields of renewable hydrogen, green ammonia, and e-fuels in Spain. The collaboration will especially boost the sustainable…
Thyssenkrupp Uhde GmbH (Dortmund, Germany) and Uniper SE (Düsseldorf, Germany) are entering into a strategic partnership to bring a key technology for global hydrogen trading to industrial maturity: the large-scale ammonia cracker. In an ammonia cracker, ammonia is catalytically broken…
Plug Power Inc. (Latham, N.Y.) announced that its hydrogen plant in Woodbine, Georgia produced 300 metric tons of liquid hydrogen in April 2025—the facility’s highest monthly output to date and a new benchmark for the U.S. hydrogen industry. The plant,…
DuPont (Wilmington, Del.) announced 100% of its grid electricity is from renewable sources across its entire European Union (E.U.) operations, through the use of Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs). This milestone underscores the company's commitment to achieving its renewable energy goal…
Hitachi Energy has delivered rectifier transformers for electrolytic hydrogen to a hydrogen-power technology park built by China Energy Engineering Corporation (CEEC) in Songyuan, a city in northeast China. The transformer solution helps ensure a reliable power supply for hydrogen production…
Graphitic Energy (formerly known as C-Zero; Santa Barbara, Calif.) has entered into a strategic collaboration with the Claremont office of Technip Energies USA to jointly develop and deploy Graphitic’s innovative methane pyrolysis (also called “turquoise hydrogen“) technology. This innovative process…
Thyssenkrupp nucera AG & Co. KGaA (Dortmund, Germany) and Fraunhofer IKTS opened the first SOEC pilot production plant for electrolysis stacks on May 27 in Arnstadt, Thuringia, Germany, in the presence of high-ranking representatives from science, politics, and industry. The…