Sustainability
SUEZ to deliver quaternary treatment stage at Kalundborg wastewater plant in Denmark
SUEZ S.A. (Paris, France) has been selected by Kalundborg Forsyning A/S (Kalundborg, Denmark) to design and deliver a new quaternary treatment stage at the Kalundborg Central Wastewater Treatment Plant in Denmark. The installation will reduce micropollutants in treated wastewater discharged…
Kawasaki Heavy Industries begins construction of hydrogen liquefaction plant
Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd. (Tokyo) announced that it has started construction of a hydrogen liquefaction plant (hereinafter "the Plant") at the Kawasaki LH2 Terminal (Ogishima, Kawasaki-ku, Kawasaki City, Kanagawa, Japan). With a liquefaction capacity of 50 tons per day, the…
UPM inaugurates Leuna biorefinery, world’s largest wood-based chemicals facility
UPM Global (Helsinki, Finland) inaugurated its biorefinery in Leuna, Germany, marking the start of a new industrial platform for renewable chemicals made from wood. The biorefinery converts lignocellulosic biomass, primarily wood from sustainably managed forests and sawmill residues, into biochemicals.…
Perpetual Next and Air Liquide join forces to accelerate biomethanol plant technology
Perpetual Next N.V. (Amsterdam) has signed a License and Engineering Agreement with Air Liquide Engineering and Technologies (Paris) for the supply of syngas-to-methanol technology for Perpetual Next's first biomethanol facility, with an option to extend across other biomethanol sites. The…
Topsoe to license kerosene hydrotreating technology for BPCL’s Mumbai SAF project
Topsoe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark), a leading global provider of advanced energy transition solutions for producing clean and conventional fuels and chemicals, has signed a licensing agreement with Bharat Petroleum Corp. Ltd. (BPCL; Mumbai, India), an Indian public sector oil and…
Evonik, Toyotsu Chemiplas and Sanyo Chemical team up on polyurethane foam recycling
Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany) has partnered with Toyotsu Chemiplas Corp. (Tokyo, Japan) and Sanyo Chemical Industries, Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan) to develop a recycling model for polyurethane foam in Japan for Japan. The partners aim to convert discarded foam into…
Eni CCUS Holding installs milestone offshore CCS platform in Liverpool Bay
Eni CCUS Holding, owned jointly by Eni S.p.A. (Rome, Italy) and Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP; New York), part of BlackRock, Inc. (New York), announced that Liverpool Bay CCS has completed the installation of the new Douglas CCS platform in Liverpool…
STX Group signs e-methane offtake agreement from TURN2X plant in Spain
STX Group (Amsterdam, the Netherlands), a leading environmental commodity trader, has announced its first offtake of RFNBO (Renewable Fuel of Non-Biological Origin)-compliant e-Methane, produced by TURN2X GmbH (Munich, Germany) at its first commercial plant in Spain. The agreement provides STX…
Metacon awarded funding for biomethane-to-hydrogen pilot in Crete
The wholly owned Greek subsidiary of Metacon AB (publ) (Uppsala, Sweden), Metacon S.A. (Patras, Greece), has been awarded E.U. project funding to develop and demonstrate hydrogen production from biomethane in the BIOH2VAP project. The project will validate Metacon’s reforming technology…
Imerys launches industrial-scale production of bio-based synthetic graphite
Imerys Graphite and Carbon Switzerland Ltd. (IGC; Bodio, Switzerland), a subsidiary of Imerys S.A. (Paris, France), announced a breakthrough with its SU-NERGY™ graphite line: its first industrial-scale graphite with a significantly reduced climate impact. Made using biomass-based feedstock, this next-generation…