SUEZ (Paris, France) has signed a contract for a large wastewater treatment project and has been awarded an associated 10-year service agreement with Irkutsk Polymer Plant of Irkutsk Oil Company, one of the largest independent oil and gas producers located…
Seven companies from the GET H2 initiative show how rapidly the planning of the national and European hydrogen economy is developing. The consortium wants to build a cross-border infrastructure for hydrogen — from the production of green hydrogen to transport…
DuPont (Wilmington, Del.) announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement with Advent International, one of the world’s largest private equity firms, to acquire Laird Performance Materials for $2.3 billion, which will be paid from existing cash balances. The…
Schlumberger New Energy, Chevron Corp., Microsoft and Clean Energy Systems announced plans to develop a ground-breaking bioenergy with carbon capture and sequestration (BECCS) project designed to produce carbon negative power in Mendota, California. The BECCS plant will convert agricultural waste…
Neo Performance Materials (Toronto, Ontario, Canada) and Energy Fuels Inc. (Lakewood, Colo.) announced a new rare-earth production initiative spanning European and North American critical material supply chains. The initiative will produce value-added rare earth products from natural monazite sands, a…
The Chemours Company (Wilmington, Del.) announced the implementation of an improvement project to significantly reduce emissions of HFC-23 at its Louisville, Kentucky manufacturing site. The project includes the design, custom-build and installation of proprietary technology to capture at least 99%…
Linde plc (Guildford, U.K.) has been selected by Norwegian ferry operator Norled to supply liquid hydrogen and related infrastructure to the world’s first operational hydrogen-powered ferry, which will transport both cars and passengers. Linde will provide a full-service solution to…
TrinamiX, a wholly owned subsidiary of BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany), now supports the reliable differentiation between polyamide 6 (PA6) and polyamide 6.6 (PA66) with its Mobile Near-Infrared Spectroscopy Solution. Within seconds, plastic waste from the two polyamides can be sorted…
Saipem S.p.A. (San Donato Milanese, Italy) and Alboran Hydrogen have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the joint development and the construction of five plants for the production of green hydrogen through the electrolysis process, three of which in…
OMV AG (Vienna, Austria) plans to build a pilot plant at its Schwechat Refinery, which will produce second-generation biofuels from 2023 using a patented process developed inhouse. The plant involves advanced biofuels that are not in competition with foodstuffs. A…