Veolia (Paris) and the Kingdom of Morocco signed a MOA for the establishment of a strategic partnership to develop on an exclusive basis a seawater desalination project that will be the largest in Africa and the second largest in the…
Asahi Kasei Corp. (Tokyo) and Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (Honda) announced that the two companies have signed a shareholders' agreement to convert an existing Asahi Kasei subsidiary in Canada into a joint venture (JV) company. This agreement was reached as…
AM Green has placed India’s largest electrolyzer order with John Cockerill Hydrogen for one of the world’s largest green ammonia projects. AM Green achieved Final Investment Decision (FID) in August 2024 for this first million-ton green ammonia project to be…
Siemens AG (Munich, Germany) has signed an agreement to acquire Altair Engineering Inc. (Troy, Mich.), a leading provider of software in the industrial simulation and analysis market. Altair shareholders will receive USD 113 per share, representing an enterprise value…
LanzaTech Global, Inc. (Chicago, Ill.) announced plans to develop a commercial-scale Carbon Capture and Utilization (CCU) facility at Herøya Industrial Park in Porsgrunn, Norway. The plant will produce ethanol and is expected to begin operations in 2028. Eramet Group (Paris,…
Hydrogen has been an important industrial feedstock for decades in petroleum refining, fertilizer, and chemical industries, but traditional production methods for H2 generate significant volumes of carbon dioxide. More recently, demand for clean hydrogen without greenhouse-gas emissions is rising and…
Packaging and recycling specialist ALPLA Group (Hard, Austria; www.alpla.com) is opening a state-of-the-art polyethylene terephthalate (PET) recycling plant in Ballito, South Africa approximately one and a half years after the start of construction. The company has invested 60 million euros…
Because of their excellent mechanical properties, light weight and biodegradability, cellulose nanofibers (CNF) are attractive materials for next-generation reinforced biomaterials and bioplastics. However, the method for separating cellulose to make CNF, known as fibrillation, is energy-intensive, which limits applications for…
Electrifying industrial heat Calectra (Oakland, Calif.; www.calectra.com) has received $1.6 million in pre-seed funding and $400,000 in grant funding from the U.S. Government and New York State to support its work on decarbonizing industrial process heat. Heavy industrial processes, like…
The solvent N-methylpyrrolidone (NMP) has been used to coat anodes and cathodes in lithium-ion batteries, but it has been shown to be a reproductive toxin, necessitating controlled handling and recycling within a closed system, which adds complexity and cost to…