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Linde to build 5-MW electrolyzer for green-hydrogen production in Brazil

Linde plc (Guilford, U.K.) announced that its subsidiary White Martins will build, own and operate a second electrolyzer to produce green hydrogen for the southeast region of Brazil. The five-megawatt pressurized alkaline electrolyzer plant will be located next to the…

BASF, SABIC and Linde start up first large-scale electric steam-cracking furnace

BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany), SABIC (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) and Linde plc (Guildford, U.K.) have inaugurated the world’s first demonstration plant for large-scale electrically heated steam cracking furnaces. Following three years of development, engineering, and construction work, the regular operation of…

Vitol acquires BioMethane Partners to form new landfill-gas conversion entity

Vitol (Geneva, Switzerland) announced the acquisition of renewable energy company, BioMethane Partners, to form Vitol BioMethane (VBM). VBM is a Texas-based landfill-gas-to-energy company, whose leadership has more than 100 years of combined experience in designing, building, and operating gas collection…

BASF starts up prototype battery-recycling facility at Schwarzheide site

BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) has successfully started operating its prototype metal refinery for battery recycling in Schwarzheide, Germany. The state-of-the-art plant allows for the development of operational procedures and the optimization of innovative battery recycling technology, processing end-of-life lithium-ion batteries…

Topsoe to provide renewable-fuels process technologies for Cepsa and Bio-Oils

Topsoe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark) signed an agreement with Cepsa  (Madrid, Spain) under which  Topsoe will provide its HydroFlex technology for the production of SAF and renewable diesel at Cepsa and Bio-Oils’ new second-generation biofuels plant in Palos de la Frontera,…

Wood selected as key contractor for large-scale Teesside carbon-capture project

Wood plc (Aberdeen, Scotland) has been selected as a contractor by Net Zero Teesside Power (NZT Power) and Northern Endurance Partnership (NEP) for integrated project management services. NZT Power, which aims to be one of the world’s first commercial scale…

Sanyo Chemical and Econic Technologies to collaborate on CO2-based polyols production

Sanyo Chemical Industries, Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Econic Technologies Ltd., a U.K.-based deep-tech company focused on renewable carbon. Sanyo Chemical will assess Econic’s technology for producing CO2-based polyols for use in sustainable, high-performance…

Evonik launches certified carbon-neutral hydrogen peroxide

Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany) is now offering carbon-neutral hydrogen peroxide to customers in Europe. This has been enabled through an independently certified approach wherein hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) is sold together with a so-called “Way to GO2” certificate. Using the…

Infinium and Kinetik reach CO2 utilization agreement to advance eFuels production

Infinium (Sacramento, Calif.) has reached an agreement with a subsidiary of midstream energy company  Kinetik Holdings Inc. to purchase carbon dioxide (CO2) captured from Kinetik's gas gathering and processing system in the Permian Basin for use as a feedstock in…

Commercial-scale recycling facility launched in Oklahoma

Green Li-ion, a lithium-ion battery recycling technology company, announced the launch of its first commercial-scale installation to produce sustainable, battery-grade materials, the first of its kind in North America. The plant, located within an existing recycling facility in Atoka, Oklahoma,…