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Chemical Industry Sustainability Projects Advanced by Global Impact Coalition

The Global Impact Coalition (GIC; Geneva, Switzerland; www.globalimpactcoalition.com), a CEO-led coalition committed to advancing a circular, net-zero future for the chemical industry, marks its first anniversary since spinning off from the World Economic Forum. Established as an independent entity in…

Avantium and SCG Chemicals sign agreement to pilot polylactic-co-glycolic acid production

Avantium N.V. (Amsterdam, the Netherlands; www.avantium.com)  a leading company in renewable and circular polymer materials, announces the strengthening of its partnership with SCG Chemicals Public Company Limited (Bangkok, Thailand; www.scgchemicals.com) a leading chemical player in Asia and an innovator of…

Rio Tinto to supply iron ore pellets to steel decarbonization project in France

Rio Tinto (London, U.K.; www.riotinto.com) has entered into definitive agreements with GravitHy (Marseille, France; www.gravithy.eu), an early-stage industrial company, to help accelerate GravitHy’s steel decarbonization project in France. As part of this collaboration, Rio Tinto will supply high-grade direct reduction…

Uniper selects Electric Hydrogen technology for northern Germany project

  Uniper (Düsseldorf, Germany; uniper.energy) has selected Electric Hydrogen (Natick, Mass.; www.eh2.com) as its exclusive partner to design a 200 Megawatt (MW) electrolyzer plant for the large-scale electrolysis within Uniper’s Green Wilhelmshaven project in Northern Germany. Electric Hydrogen began conducting…

Asahi Kasei breaks ground on lithium-ion battery separator facility in Ontario, Canada

Asahi Kasei Battery Separator Corporation marked a significant step in its commitment to supporting the North American electric vehicle (EV) market by breaking ground on its new lithium-ion battery separator manufacturing facility in Port Colborne, Ontario, Canada. The plant is expected…

Neste will supply renewable feedstock for chemicals and plastics to Singapore producer

Neste (Espoo, Finland; www.neste.com) and Singapore-based essential chemicals company PCS Pte. Ltd. (www.pcs.com.sg) have launched a cooperation for the supply of renewable solutions to Southeast Asia’s chemicals industry. The collaboration aims at introducing renewable raw materials to replace fossil ones…

HiiROC and Siemens sign MoU for automating hydrogen production

Clean hydrogen producer HiiROC (Hull, U.K.; www.hiiroc.com), has partnered with technology company Siemens (Munich, Germany; www.siemens.com) on its hydrogen production technology, helping customers to decarbonize their operations and support their net-zero ambitions. HiiROC and Siemens signed a Memorandum of Understanding…

Hexagon announces new battery cell design using Fraunhofer Institute technology

Hexagon AB (Stockholm, Sweden; www.hexagon.com) announced a new battery cell design solution that combines Fraunhofer ITWM’s (Kaiserslautern, Germany; www.itwm.fraunnhofer.de) electro-chemical simulation technology with Hexagon’s multi-physics material simulation and metrology software to significantly accelerate new battery cell research and development programs. …

Alfa Laval secures two contracts for biofuel production

Driving the global energy transition towards biofuels, Alfa Laval (Lund, Sweden; www.alfalaval.com) has secured two contracts worth 350 million SEK to supply cutting-edge HVO pre-treatment technology to Europe's largest biofuel facility. The facility, a joint venture between Cepsa Bioenergia San Roque…

ArcelorMittal and HP announce collaboration on steel additive manufacturing

ArcelorMittal (Luxemburg; corporate.arcelormittal.com) , a global leader in sustainable steel solutions, and HP (Palo Alto, Calif.; www.hp.com), a renowned printing company with extensive expertise in additive manufacturing, are pleased to announce a strategic collaboration to advance the field of steel…