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Evonik joins ReSolar project for recycling PV modules

Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany) is part of the ReProSolar project, which aims at developing a highly efficient and special process for the recycling of end-of-life photovoltaic (PV) modules. Under the project management of Veolia Germany and together with partner…

Genomatica licenses renewable BDO technology to Cargill for new facility in Iowa

Genomatica (San Diego, Calif.) has licensed its GENO BDO biomanufacturing process technology to Cargill, Inc. (Minneapolis, Minn.), which is using it in its newly-announced joint venture with HELM, Qore, to produce renewable 1,4-butanediol (BDO). The technology for the BDO production…

Equinor to sell petroleum refining business in Denmark

Equinor Energy AS (Stavanger, Norway) has entered into an agreement with the Klesch Group for the sale of its petroleum refining business in Denmark. The agreement covers the Equinor Refining Denmark A/S (ERD) company consisting of the Kalundborg refinery and…

Suez and Airex Energy to commercialize biochar carbon-capture technology

SUEZ Group (Paris) and Airex Energy (Bécancour, Quebec, Canada) have formed a partnership in order to provide solutions to regions and industries on their path towards carbon neutrality. The expertise of the two Groups will enable them to industrialize the…

Air Products and Baker Hughes to collaborate on hydrogen-compression technologies

Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.) and Baker Hughes (Houston) have announced a strategic global collaboration to develop next-generation hydrogen compression to lower the cost of production and accelerate the adoption of hydrogen as a zero-carbon fuel. As part of the…

Chevron Lummus Global and ARA awarded technology contract for renewable fuels project in Iowa

Chevron Lummus Global (CLG) and Applied Research Associates, Inc. (ARA)  announced that the companies have been awarded a technology contract by ReadiFuels-Iowa, LLC for their renewable diesel and sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) project in Sioux Center, Iowa. The scope of…

MOL Group to acquire OMV’s business in Slovenia

OMV AG (Vienna, Austria) and MOL Group (Budapest, Hungary) announced an agreement for MOL Group to acquire OMV Slovenia. The agreement encompasses 120 filling stations, as well as OMV’s wholesale business in Slovenia. The transaction is subject to required regulatory…

LyondellBasell announces startup of Ulsan PP production facility

LyondellBasell (Rotterdam, the Netherlands) announced the successful startup of Ulsan PP Co., Ltd.’s polypropylene production facility. The facility, located in the southeastern port city of Ulsan, South Korea, is one of the largest of its kind in Asia, designed to…

Eastman to sell rubber additives assets for $800 million

Eastman Chemical Co. (Kingsport, Tenn.) announced it has entered into a definitive agreement with an affiliate of One Rock Capital Partners, LLC to sell the rubber additives (including Crystex insoluble sulfur and Santoflex antidegradants) and other product lines and related assets and technology of…

Air Products to build world-scale blue-hydrogen plant in Edmonton, Canada

Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.) and its subsidiary Air Products Canada Ltd., in conjunction with the Government of Canada and the Province of Alberta, announced a multi-billion dollar plan to build a landmark new net-zero hydrogen energy complex that will…