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Thyssenkrupp Uhde and Proman to collaborate on new ammonia plant in Mexico

thyssenkrupp Uhde (Dortmund, Germany) has been engaged by Proman (Wollerau, Switzerland) to realize a 2,200-ton/day ammonia plant in Topolobampo, Sinaloa (Mexico). It will be a state-of-the-art facility which optimizes CO2 emissions in the process. German financing through Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau…

Renewable-diesel unit starts up at Chevron’s El Segundo refinery in California

Chevron Lummus Global LLC (CLG)announced the completion and successful startup of an ISOTERRA unit as part of Chevron's renewable fuel conversion project at their El Segundo Refinery in Southern California. The ISOTERRA unit leverages both the refinery's existing assets and…

BayoTech starts up sustainable hydrogen production in Missouri

BayoTech Inc. announced the availability of sustainable hydrogen fuel from its recently completed hub in Wentzville, Missouri. The BayoGaaS Hydrogen Hub generates 350 tons of hydrogen annually to serve a wide range of customers operating zero-emission fuel cell equipment and…

Plans underway for industrial-scale seaweed-processing biorefinery in Finland

Origin by Ocean and AFRY have entered a collaborative engineering collaboration to plan an industrial-scale biorefinery for processing bio-based seaweed products in Finland. The conceptual study phases aim to define production concepts and the steps required to construct a biorefinery.…

Air Products to build Europe’s Largest blue hydrogen plant to supply ExxonMobil site in Rotterdam

Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.) announced it will build, own and operate a state-of-the-art carbon capture and carbon dioxide (CO2) treatment facility at its existing hydrogen production plant in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. The facility is expected to be on-stream in…

North America’s largest green-hydrogen plant begins operations in California

H2B2 Electrolysis Technologies, Inc. (H2B2) has unveiled SoHyCal – the largest operational green hydrogen production plant powered entirely by renewable energy in North America to date. This pioneering project, from both a technical and commercial point of view, consists of…

Eni and Saipem sign agreement to develop new biorefineries

Eni S.p.A. (Rome, Italy) and Saipem S.p.A. (San Donato Milanese, Italy) have signed an agreement for the development of biorefining projects. It was signed  by Giuseppe Ricci, Chief Operating Officer for Energy Evolution at Eni, and Alessandro Puliti, Chief Executive…

Braskem and Oxiteno to collaborate on bio-based ethylene supply

Braskem S.A. and Indorama Ventures IOD - Oxiteno (both São Paulo, Brazil) have  announced a partnership to supply bio-attributed ethylene from renewable sources. Bio-attributed ethylene, certified by ISCC (International Sustainability and Carbon Certification), will be used by Oxiteno to create…

DuPont starts up new elastomer plant in Delaware

DuPont (Wilmington, Del.) announced the official opening of its new DuPont Kalrez manufacturing site in Newark, Delaware to meet growing global customer demand from the semiconductor and industrials sectors. The new facility, the Tralee Park Annex, was officially inaugurated with…

Solvay and Orbia progress plans for new PVDF facility in Georgia

Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium)  confirms its plans to build a new battery-grade PVDF facility in Augusta, Georgia. With more than half of U.S. car sales projected to be electric by 2030, the U.S. produced PVDF - a thermoplastic fluoropolymer -…