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Borealis upgrades Integra site in Bulgaria for mechanical recycling

Integra Plastics AD, Bulgaria, a member of the Borealis Group (Vienna, Austria), is converting its production facility to produce polypropylene starting in October 2025. The upgrade includes the installation of Borealis' proprietary Borcycle™ M mechanical recycling technology, enabling Integra to…

QuantumScape and Corning partner to commercialize ceramic separators for solid-state batteries

QuantumScape Corporation and Corning Inc.  announced an agreement to jointly develop ceramic separator manufacturing capabilities for QS solid-state batteries. The companies will work together toward the goal of high-volume production of QS’s ceramic separators for commercial applications. Combining QS and…

Technip Energies awarded two services contracts for Repsol’s waste-to-methanol Ecoplanta project in Spain

Technip Energies (Paris) has been awarded two engineering services contracts by Repsol S.A. (Madrid, Spain) for the development of the Ecoplanta Molecular Recycling Solutions (Ecoplanta) project, a first-of-a-kind waste-to-methanol facility to be built in El Morell, near Tarragona, Spain. The…

BASF announces two new recycling processes for polyamides from end-of-life vehicles

At this year's K 2025, BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) and its cooperation partners will be presenting two pioneering technologies that enable the recycling of polyamides from end-of-life vehicles. While the recovery of metals from decommissioned vehicles has been successfully practiced…

Plug Power delivers electrolyzer for Galp’s green hydrogen project in Portugal

Plug Power Inc. (Latham, N.Y.) announced the delivery of its first 10-megawatt (MW) GenEco electrolyzer array to Galp, Portugal’s leading integrated energy company. The array was delivered to Galp’s Sines Refinery, home of the largest proton exchange membrane (PEM) hydrogen…

IBU-tec and Hosokawa Alpine start up battery-recycling pilot plant in Weimar

IBU-tec advanced materials AG (Weimar, Germany) and machinery and plant manufacturer Hosokawa Alpine (Augsburg, Germany) have set up a pilot plant for the recycling of battery materials at its headquarters in Weimar. As part of the cooperation, IBU-tec will contribute…

Thyssenkrupp Uhde completes Hydrogen Recovery Unit for Fertiglobe U.A.E. plant

Thyssenkrupp Uhde GmbH (Dortmund, Germany) has successfully commissioned the startup of a cutting-edge hydrogen recovery unit (HRU) at the Fertil plant in Ruwais, United Arab Emirates, owned by Fertiglobe, a global leader and exporter of urea, ammonia and an early…

Accelera to supply electrolyzer system for green hydrogen production in Bavaria

Accelera by Cummins, the zero-emissions business segment of Cummins Inc. (Columbus, Ind.) is partnering with Tyczka Hydrogen GmbH, a leading European hydrogen specialist, to deploy a 5-megawatt (MW) proton exchange membrane (PEM) electrolyzer system at the Port of Schweinfurt in…

Syensqo develops chemical recycling technology for sulfone polymers

Syensqo S.A. (Brussels, Belgium) has announced the invention of a proprietary chemical recycling technology that efficiently depolymerizes sulfone polymers to obtain purified raw material monomers. This new process enables the infinite circularity of sulfone polymers, confirming Syensqo’s leadership in sustainable…

Repsol to build its first large-scale renewable hydrogen plant in Cartagena

Repsol S.A. (Madrid, Spain) has given the green light to its first large electrolyzer, with 100 MW of capacity, at the company’s industrial complex in Cartagena in eastern Spain. The facility will be able to produce up to 15,000 tons…