Toray Industries, Inc. (Tokyo) announced that its marketing & sales subsidiary, Toray Resins Europe GmbH (TREU) has established a recycling process for glass-fiber-reinforced polyphenylene sulfide (PPS) resin waste from injection molding processes. TREU created its process by leveraging proprietary compounding…
MAIRE S.p.A. announces that its subsidiary KT-Kinetics Technology (KT), part of the Integrated E&C Solutions (IE&CS) business unit, has been awarded the early engineering works for the realization of a new green fertilizer complex in North America by a group…
LyondellBasell Industries N.V. (Rotterdam, the Netherlands) announced it has signed a memorandum of understanding with Technip Energies (Paris) and Chevron Phillips Chemical Co. LLC (CPChem; The Woodlands, Tex.) to potentially design, construct and operate a demonstration unit using Technip Energies'…
Braven Environmental LLC (Braven), a pioneering provider in the advanced plastics recycling sector, announced the execution of a strategic framework agreement with Koch Project Solutions (KPS), a Koch Engineered Solutions company, to provide project management contracting services (PMC) for Braven’s…
Par Pacific Holdings, Inc. (Houston) announced that it has successfully closed its previously announced acquisition of the Billings refinery and associated marketing and logistics assets from ExxonMobil Corp. (Irving, Tex.) and two of its subsidiaries. The base purchase price of…
Carbios (St-Beauzire, France) and Indorama Ventures Ltd. (IVL; Bangkok, Thailand) announced the signing of a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to form a Joint Venture (JV) for the construction of the world’s first PET (polyethylene terephthalate) biorecycling plant in France1.…
Plug Power Inc. (Latham, N.Y.) plans to develop three green hydrogen production plants in Finland, resulting in the production of 850 tons per day (TPD) of green hydrogen, or 2.2 gigawatts (GW) of electrolyzer capacity, by the end of the…
LyondellBasell Industries N.V. (Rotterdam, the Netherlands) announced that Alujain National Industrial Company (Alujain) has selected polypropylene process technology from LyondellBasell for a new Spherizone process technology line. Alujain owns National Petrochemical Industrial Co. (NatPet), which operates a Spheripol process technology…
Battery black mass recycling is becoming an important means to complement virgin battery metals supply and to reduce the carbon footprint of the battery supply chain. To respond to these needs, Metso Corp. (Helsinki, Finland) is launching an advanced sustainable…
Chinese synthetic biology company Bluepha Co. Ltd. and TotalEnergies Corbion (Gorinchem, the Netherlands) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to accelerate the market adoption of PLA/PHA-based solutions in China. The collaboration aims to bring together the expertise and resources…